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The Postcard by Anne Berest
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAnne Berest’s luminous, moving, and unforgettable new novel The Postcard is the most acclaimed and beloved French book in recent years... -
![Villa of Secrets by Patricia M Wilson, Lucy Paterson]()
Villa of Secrets by Patricia M Wilson, Lucy Paterson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf you love The Island and Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop, you will love this perfect summer read. Rebecca Neumanner has spent years trying to conceive a child. Her fragile marriage is on the brink of collapse, and her desire to become a mother is becoming an obsession. Then she receives news from her estranged family in Rhodes, and Rebecca's world is turned upside down... -
![The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov]()
The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAsimov started his Robot series with several short stories set in a common universe with continuing characters from US Robotics and based on the Three Laws of Robotics. This compilation includes 31 stories published from 1940 to 1977, including all the stories from the earlier collection, I, Robot (1950). As of 1988, only one other robot story (Robot Dreams) had been written... -
![The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut]()
The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNamed a Top 10 Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly • a national bestseller • a New York Times Editor's Choice pick“A contemporary writer of thrilling originality . . . The MANIAC is a work of dark, eerie and singular beauty.” —The Washington Post“Darkly absorbing . . . A brooding, heady narrative that is addictively interesting...Categorized as:
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![The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov]()
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsA millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together... -
![The Last Secret of Lily Adams by Sara Blaydes]()
The Last Secret of Lily Adams by Sara Blaydes
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe death of a legendary actress reveals a wealth of Hollywood secrets in a breathtaking novel about betrayal, rivalry, and the punishing brutality of fame.One of the brightest stars of Hollywood’s golden age was Lily Adams, the beloved picture of all-American innocence. Why she suddenly vanished from the spotlight was a mystery even to those closest to her...Categorized as:
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![The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov]()
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants... -
![The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem]()
The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. Ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work...Categorized as:
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![The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov]()
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together... -
![The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali]()
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown... -
![Flower Fairies of the Summer by Cicely Mary Barker]()
Flower Fairies of the Summer by Cicely Mary Barker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExperience the beauty and the magic of Cicely Mary Barker's famous Flower Fairies, with a new edition of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Summer.The magic and loveliness of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies is being reissued with an updated, contemporary look that is a perfect gift for Flower Fairies fans and a new generation of readers... -
![Excession by Iain M. Banks]()
Excession by Iain M. Banks
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain... -
![Cottonwood Whispers by Jennifer Erin Valent]()
Cottonwood Whispers by Jennifer Erin Valent
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this sequel to Jennifer’s award-winning debut novel Fireflies in December, Jessilyn Lassiter and her best friend Gemma Teague have survived prejudice and heartache in their lifelong friendship, but the summer of 1936 threatens to tear them apart yet again. Gemma’s job with the wealthy Hadley family leads to a crush on their youngest son...Categorized as:
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![The Last Summer by Karen Swan]()
The Last Summer by Karen Swan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the residents of St Kilda ask to be evacuated from their remote island home in the summer of 1930, it’s in search of a better life on mainland Scotland compared to the scratch existence on their mountain in the sea.For eighteen-year-old tomboy Effie Gillies, it’s a bittersweet departure. She’s the best young climber on the island, as skilled and brave as any of the men... -
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![And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Stephanie Marie Thornton]()
And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn intimate portrait of the life of Jackie O… Few of us can claim to be the authors of our fate. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy knows no other choice... -
![Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome]()
Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Swallows, Amazons, and friends search for gold in the Lake District Hills—camping out, evading dangers, and staying in touch via homing pigeon.Nancy and Peggy Blackett receive a letter from their Uncle Jim who's on his way home after failing to find treasure in South America...Categorized as:
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![Diaspora by Greg Egan]()
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBy the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame... -
![Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe]()
Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"This is book club fiction at its finest!" —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes her highly anticipated Where the Rivers Merge, the first of two epic and triumphant novels celebrating one intrepid woman's life across multiple generations in the American South...Categorized as:
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![The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov]()
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAndrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants—smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits... -
![Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River by Gertrude Crampton]()
Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River by Gertrude Crampton
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMeant for “bigger things,” Scuffy the Tugboat sets off to explore the world. But on his daring adventure Scuffy realizes that home is where he’d rather be, sailing in his bathtub. For over 50 years, parents and children have cherished this classic Little Golden Book...Categorized as:
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![Promise to Return: A Novel by Elizabeth Byler Younts]()
Promise to Return: A Novel by Elizabeth Byler Younts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen World War II breaks out, Miriam Coblentz’s peaceful Amish world is turned upside down... It’s 1943, and Miriam Coblentz and Henry Mast are nearing their wedding day when the unthinkable happens—Henry is drafted. However, since he is a part of the pacifist Amish tradition, Henry is sent to a conscientious objector Civilian Public Service camp... -
![High Tide at Noon by Elisabeth Ogilvie]()
High Tide at Noon by Elisabeth Ogilvie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe struggles, hardship, and joy of one woman's life on a Maine island are brought to life in this haunting and enduringly popular trilogy, the first three books of the Bennett's Island series... -
![The Seven Year Dress by Paulette Mahurin]()
The Seven Year Dress by Paulette Mahurin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the darkest times in human history was the insane design and execution to rid the world of Jews and “undesirables.” At the hands of the powerful evil madman Adolf Hitler, families were ripped apart and millions were slaughtered. Persecution, torture, devastation, and enduring the unthinkable remained for those who lived. This is the story of one woman who lived to tell her story... -
![Permutation City by Greg Egan]()
Permutation City by Greg Egan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control... -
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![Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov]()
Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRobot Dreams collects 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spanning the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s----exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's maturity and growth... -
![Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeginning in the 1960s and 70s, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction...Categorized as:
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![Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ruth Bornschlegel]()
Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ruth Bornschlegel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMore than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems -- including 20 sonnets from Mine the Harvest not contained in previous editions of her Collected Sonnets -- are brought together in this new, expanded edition. An introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses on examples of the poet's variations in sonnet structure...Categorized as:
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![The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds]()
The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA captivating novel of love, art, food, desire and thwarted ambition, which builds propulsively over one scorching French summer in 1920s Provence.During a scorching summer in 1920s Provence, a young journalist, Joseph Adelaide, turns up at the farmhouse of reclusive artist Edouard Tartuffe, hoping to write an article about him... -
![East of the Sun by Barbara Bickmore]()
East of the Sun by Barbara Bickmore
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEAST OF THE SUN - A return to the grand tradition of storytelling. BARBARA BICKMORE has created a tale in EAST OF THE SUN, so richly imagined, so lush in its description of Africa's primitive beauty, and so compelling in its depiction of the struggle for good, that you will live it as you read it. "A grand historical romance . . . Filled with passions, heartbreak and death." Chicago Sun-Times... -
![Walter the Lazy Mouse by Marjorie Flack]()
Walter the Lazy Mouse by Marjorie Flack
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe classic 1937 tale by award-winning author Marjorie Flack is back in print for the first time in decades!Walter is a lazy mouse. He is so lazy that he always misses school and spends all his time in bed. He is so lazy that eventually his family forgets about him and moves away…without him. Alone and scared, Walter heads out into the world to search for his family... -
![A House in the Country by José Donoso]()
A House in the Country by José Donoso
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGames turn to nightmares during the summer holidays at the magnificent Chilean country estate of the Ventura family when the children - 33 cousins ranging in age from 6 to 16 - are left to themselves while their parents pursue their own pastimes... -
![Business as Usual by Jane Oliver, Ann Stafford]()
Business as Usual by Jane Oliver, Ann Stafford
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBusiness As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It's a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiance...Categorized as:
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![The Summer Of The Spanish Woman by Catherine Gaskin]()
The Summer Of The Spanish Woman by Catherine Gaskin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHEY HAD ALL COME FOR THE TILSIT INHERITANCE.. When Virginia left for England, she did not know then that she had become the new Tilsit heiress. Nor did she know that this new-found life of wealth and luxury would turn instead into an awesome and terrifying burden. Lawrence had once dreamed of the inheritance. A man hungry and ambitious for success... -
![They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson]()
They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1991... -
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![The Rest of the Robots by Isaac Asimov]()
The Rest of the Robots by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Rest of the Robots is the third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov's robot stories, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea... -
![Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner]()
Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes a vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel—the ambitious, gifted laundrywoman’s daughter who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the most influential and controversial figures of the twentieth century Born into rural poverty,... -
![Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante]()
Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn a small Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea there lives a boy as innocent as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away. Black-clad women care for him, give him the freedom to come and go as he likes. Then the father returns with a new wife, Nunziata, a girl barely older than Arturo. At first hatred and contempt are all the boy feels for his stepmother...Categorized as:
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![The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Gardner]()
The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Gardner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'...Categorized as:
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![One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes]()
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated... -
![The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen: (Elizabeth) by Lizabeth Von Arnim]()
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen: (Elizabeth) by Lizabeth Von Arnim
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvery one who has been to school and still remembers what he was taught there, knows that Rugen is the biggest island Germany possesses, and that it lies in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Pomerania. Round this island I wished to walk this summer, but no one would walk with me. It is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom... -
![The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster]()
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThe Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories... -
![Her Hidden Genius: A Novel by Marie Benedict]()
Her Hidden Genius: A Novel by Marie Benedict
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie and The Only Woman in the Room.Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider―brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments... -
![The Crime at Halfpenny Bridge by George Bellairs]()
The Crime at Halfpenny Bridge by George Bellairs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThomas Littlejohn investigates a murder committed by the glow of a lighthouse The waterfront pub is closing up and the sailors are staggering home. World War II means a blackout in the English port town of Werrymouth, but the locals have no trouble finding their way over the Halfpenny Bridge, where a small toll shaves a mile off their drunken walk...Categorized as:
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![At the Edge of Summer by Jessica Brockmole]()
At the Edge of Summer by Jessica Brockmole
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe acclaimed author of Letters from Skye returns with an extraordinary story of a friendship born of proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war. Luc Crépet is accustomed to his mother’s bringing wounded creatures to their idyllic château in the French countryside, where healing comes naturally amid the lush wildflowers and crumbling stone walls...Categorized as:
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![Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson]()
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet... -
![Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner]()
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNorman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically—it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm... -
![Park Avenue Summer by Renée Rosen]()
Park Avenue Summer by Renée Rosen
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan Magazine, where a brazen new Editor-in-Chief--Helen Gurley Brown--shocks America by daring to talk to women about all things off limits.. -
![Home is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny]()
Home is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHome Is the Hangman' shows Zelazny at his very best grappling with questions of what is good and evil, what makes something truly alive. 'Home is The Hangman' is part of a series of novellas where the premise is that when the world databases are unified, a programmer takes the opportunity to completely erase his existence... -
![True Names by Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky]()
True Names by Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDisaffected computer wizard "Mr. Slippery" (True Name Roger Pollack) is an early adopter of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. He and the other wizards form a cabal to keep their true identities — their True Names — secret to avoid prosecution by their "Great Adversary" — the government of the United States... -
![At Summer's End by Courtney Ellis]()
At Summer's End by Courtney Ellis
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA sparkling debut from a new author we're all going to want more from."--Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things When an ambitious female artist accepts an unexpected commission at a powerful earl's country estate in 1920s England, she finds his war-torn family crumbling under the weight of long-kept secrets...
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