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The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsThis 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 ratingsThe 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... -
![I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes]()
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsA 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... -
![A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving]()
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsIn 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... -
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![Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov]()
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsSo 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 ratingsAs 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... -
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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... -
![Mended by J.L. Drake]()
Mended by J.L. Drake
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSavannah 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... -
![The Titan Series Boxed Set by Cristin Harber]()
The Titan Series Boxed Set by Cristin Harber
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Titan Series, books 1-5: Winters Heat, Garrison’s Creed, Westin’s Chase, Gambled, & Chased Winters Heat: After putting her life on the line to protect classified intelligence, military psychologist Mia Kensington is on a cross-country road trip from hell with an intrusive save-the-day hero... -
![The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsFrom 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...Categorized as:
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![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 ratingsIt’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 ratingsThey 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... -
![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... -
![Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon]()
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsThe 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... -
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![Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin]()
Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRussian 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 ratingsWhen 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... -
![To Live by C.G. Cooper]()
To Live by C.G. Cooper
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElmore 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 ratingsThis 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... -
![Cain by Lane Hart]()
Cain by Lane Hart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEveryone always asks me why I’m so f*cking angry all the time. Let me count the ways. I threw away my dreams when I was forced to fight and beat men bloody for her, but she doesn’t even know it. Whenever I try to protect her, she pushes me away... -
![Blood on the Tracks by Barbara Nickless]()
Blood on the Tracks by Barbara Nickless
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA 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 ratingsI 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 ratingsLouis-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 ratingsMy 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 ratingsIn 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. . . -
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![These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant]()
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNo 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... -
![Open Secret by Fiona Quinn]()
Open Secret by Fiona Quinn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey're playing mind games…… the rules have changed.Can 280 characters destroy a nation?Avery Goodyear, a romance editor from the suburbs, becomes a player in an international game of psychological warfare.The FBI watches the attacks unfold in real time. The FBI focuses its secret weapon, ex-Army Ranger Rowan Kennedy, at the crisis... -
![The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille]()
The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsCaptain 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 ratingsLife 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 ratingsOn 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 ratingsEmil 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 ratingsFrom 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... -
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 101 ratingsWinston 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... -
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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... -
![The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera]()
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsIn 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... -
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![A Virgin River Christmas by Robyn Carr]()
A Virgin River Christmas by Robyn Carr
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLast 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 ratingsIt 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 ratingsThere 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 ratingsRegan 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... -
![Steel Fear by Brandon Webb, John David Mann]()
Steel Fear by Brandon Webb, John David Mann
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn 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... -
![Hard to Kill by Christina Dodd]()
Hard to Kill by Christina Dodd
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Captain Kellen Adams receives a job offer that sounds too good to be true, she finds herself balanced between fascination and fear. All she has to do is break a code and find a long-lost fortune…or die trying.New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kicks off her Cape Charade suspense series with Hard to Kill, a short story of treasure, treachery…and murder... -
![Otherwise Unharmed by Shay Savage]()
Otherwise Unharmed by Shay Savage
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter 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... -
![K-Pax by Gene Brewer]()
K-Pax by Gene Brewer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsImagine a time and space traveler from another planet. One that looks human and exemplifies the ideal world he comes from, a world free from human nature's greed and cruelty. That creature would be "prot", as he calls himself, the newest patient at the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute.Prot seems to know more than he should about faster-than-the-speed-of-light-travel... -
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![Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré]()
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
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![The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf]()
The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter 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 ratingsAlternate 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... -
![Public Information by Rolf Margenau]()
Public Information by Rolf Margenau
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwenty-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... -
![Suspicions by Cynthia Eden]()
Suspicions by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone’s a suspect in the beloved third book in New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s The Battling McGuire Boys series, which was originally published by Harlequin Intrigue in 2015.Mark Montgomery will never forget the night Ava McGuire galloped onto his ranch terrified out of her mind. Once he’d saved his best friend’s sister from harm, the hardest part was letting her go...
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