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I Hid My Voice by Parinoush Saniee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn’t speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridiculed by others who call him "dumb... -
![A Thousand Tomorrows & Just Beyond The Clouds Omnibus by Karen Kingsbury]()
A Thousand Tomorrows & Just Beyond The Clouds Omnibus by Karen Kingsbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn A Thousand Tomorrows, Cody Gunner, a talented but angry cowboy, meets Ali Daniels, a lovely and mysterious barrel-racer. The two are national champions, top of their game, alone and intent on staying that way. Cody has rejected everything about his past, and only has room for his little brother, Carl Joseph, born with Down Syndrome...Categorized as:
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![A Road Trip to Remember by Judith Keim]()
A Road Trip to Remember by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter agreeing to enter the New Life Assisted-Living Community outside of Boston, Agatha “Aggie” Robard talks her devoted, serious granddaughter, Blythe, into driving her to Florida, stopping to see old college friends along the way. She particularly needs to speak to Donovan Bailey, the man she’d thought she would marry right after graduating from college...Categorized as:
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![The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom]()
The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSuddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier...Categorized as:
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![The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews]()
The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA New York Times Bestseller Your chance to regroup, take a breath, and begin your life again awaits in the simple wisdom and heartwarming story of a man named Jones. Orange Beach, Alabama, is a simple town filled with simple people...Categorized as:
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![Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman]()
Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is the second book in the Peaceful Warrior Saga. Neither a sequel nor prequel, this adventure takes place within the context of the original book, shedding new light on the path he was to travel, and would one day teach. After a period of training with the man he calls Socrates, Dan Millman is sent away by his old mentor to apply what he has learned to everyday life...Categorized as:
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![The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie]()
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed.I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?‘If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share.’And so the seed was planted . . -
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Saint Richard Parker by Merlin Franco
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHis search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...Ace businessman, writer, and investigative journalist Richard Parker loses his job when he exposes the vegetarian CEO of his newspaper as a beef exporter. Accused of misconduct and forced to dissolve his company, he retreats to his wretched little village... -
![One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello]()
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author...Categorized as:
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![20 Minutes On The Tube by Daniel Hurst]()
20 Minutes On The Tube by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first book in the bestselling 20 Minute Series... "Original and addictive, I read it in a day!" 20 Minutes. 20 People. 20 different reasons to be underground... Louise didn't plan on stealing until she realised she could get away with it. Anke gave her husband a second chance but now she wants revenge. Valentin has an urge to kill and is using his commute to find his first victim... -
![The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch]()
The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeftly combining the sacred and the profane—the unmistakable hallmark of her fiction over the past decade—Susan Howatch gives us a spellbinding, suspenseful and psychologically intense new novel. The financial heart of London—the City—is an adrenaline-charged square mile deep in recession in the 1990s, a place where sex is just another commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace...Categorized as:
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![Life's Golden Ticket by Brendon Burchard]()
Life's Golden Ticket by Brendon Burchard
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe classic inspirational parable from the top motivation and marketing trainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaire Messenger—a triumphant tale of personal growth and change that will inspire anyone who has ever wished for a second chance.What if you were handed a golden ticket that could magically start your life anew?That question is at the heart of Life’s Golden Ticket...Categorized as:
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![The Existence Of Amy by Lana Grace Riva]()
The Existence Of Amy by Lana Grace Riva
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAmy has a normal life. That is, if you were to go by a definition of 'no obvious indicators of peculiarity', and you didn't know her very well. She has good friends, a good job, a nice enough home. This normality, however, is precariously plastered on top of a different life. A life that is Amy's real life. The only one her brain will let her lead... -
![The Clouds by Juan José Saer]()
The Clouds by Juan José Saer
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language."—Ricardo Piglia"What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess... -
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![Museums & Women and Other Stories by John Updike]()
Museums & Women and Other Stories by John Updike
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is John Updike’s largest and most various collection of short stories. Some, such as the title story, have the tone and personality of essays; others objectify the chimeras of middle-class existence; a number of vignettes reflect the face of America in the fictional microcosm of Tarbox; the longest story, a hallucinatory trip up the Nile, allegorizes our foreign policy... -
![Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac]()
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDesolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend... -
![Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho]()
Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist', offers his personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, traveling and the nature of good and evil...Categorized as:
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![Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor]()
Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines...Categorized as:
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![Down by the River by Edna O'Brien]()
Down by the River by Edna O'Brien
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in her native Ireland, Edna O'Brien's newest novel explores the dark and torturous aspects of family ties. As Mary, the young heroine, tries first to conceal and then to escape her father's fateful attention, she finds herself driven into an emotional Styx...Categorized as:
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![The Autobiography of God by Julius Lester]()
The Autobiography of God by Julius Lester
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRebecca Nachman is a Rabbi without a synagogue. Having resigned from her dwindling congregation, she now works as a college counselor at a small Vermont college advising students about private matters and offering the Jewish perspective on issues raised at faculty dinner parties... -
![The Other Shulman by Alan Zweibel]()
The Other Shulman by Alan Zweibel
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShulman, a chubby, middle-aged stationery-store owner from New Jersey, has always claimed that he's been gaining and losing the same thirty-five pounds since junior high-and that if you added all of that discarded weight together, he had lost an entire person. Another Shulman. A Shulman he never really cared for. A Shulman he'd always tried to lose by dieting and exercising... -
![The Burning Season by Alison Wisdom]()
The Burning Season by Alison Wisdom
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe acclaimed author of We Can Only Save Ourselves returns with an urgent and unsettling story that journeys into the heart of religious fanaticism and cult behavior as it probes one woman's struggle to define life on her own terms.Here comes trouble, Rosemary's high school English teacher used to say whenever he saw her...Categorized as:
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![Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood]()
Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAny Bitter Thing, Wood's brilliant new novel, is her breakout book, a timely, gripping, and compassionate tale of family, faith, and deeply hidden truths. One of its greatest strengths is its continuous ability to defy expectations. It's not what you think. It is worse. Lizzy Mitchell was raised from the age of two by her uncle, a Catholic priest... -
![Compass by Mathias Énard]()
Compass by Mathias Énard
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians,...Categorized as:
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![Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo, Sean Runnette]()
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo, Sean Runnette
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe only thing certain about a journey is that it has a beginning and an end---for you never know what may happen along the way. And so it is with Breakfast with Buddha, a journey into the minds and souls of two very different men---one of them in search of the truth, the other a man who may have already found it...Categorized as:
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![The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani]()
The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of Angels Praised as “singular” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), GraceLand stunned critics and instantly established Chris Abani as an exciting new voice in fiction. In his second novel, set against the uncompromising landscape of East L.A... -
![One Last Thing by Rebecca St. James, Nancy N. Rue]()
One Last Thing by Rebecca St. James, Nancy N. Rue
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTara had always imagined her happily ever after. But her fiancé’s secrets are changing this story into one she doesn’t even recognize. Tara Faulkner and Seth Grissom grew up next door to each other in Savannah’s historic district. Their parents are best friends. They finish each other’s sentences all the time. Their fairy-tale wedding is a foregone conclusion . .Categorized as:
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![Out of the Blue by Sally Mandel]()
Out of the Blue by Sally Mandel
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA poignant and provocative romance about a remarkable leap of faith from New York Times bestselling author Sally Mandel. "Funny, sad, tender, and triumphant." - Kristin Hannah, author of Fly Away and Summer Island Anna Bolles is a born athlete whose life was irrevocably changed after a multiple sclerosis diagnosis five years ago...Categorized as:
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![The Devoted by Blair Hurley]()
The Devoted by Blair Hurley
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNicole Hennessy’s world revolves around her Boston Zendo, to the chagrin of her Irish Catholic family. As she struggles to break free from a psychological and sexual entanglement with her mentor, her past finally catches up with her. A spellbinding confession of what it means to abandon one life for another, The Devoted asks what it takes, and what you’ll sacrifice, to find enlightenment... -
![Hector and the Search for Lost Time by François Lelord]()
Hector and the Search for Lost Time by François Lelord
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe delightful third book in the multimillion-copy internationally bestselling seriesBeing up against the clock was a real problem for so many people, thought Hector. What could he possibly do to help them?First he tackled happiness. Then he took on love. And now Hector, our endearing young French psychiatrist, confronts the persistent march of time...Categorized as:
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![The Man on the Mountaintop by Susan Trott, Libby Spurrier]()
The Man on the Mountaintop by Susan Trott, Libby Spurrier
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Man on the Mountaintop tells the story of Holy Man Joe, an ageing and unassuming man who lives in a hermitage on top of a mountain. During the summer months, thousands of hopefuls line the single-file path leading to his door, seeking his wisdom...Categorized as:
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![Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers]()
Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Peter Hansome dies his wife and mistress confront many more mysteries than they had anticipated in this beguiling novel about love and loss... -
![Salthouse Place by Jamie Lee Sogn]()
Salthouse Place by Jamie Lee Sogn
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom debut author Jamie Sogn comes a twisty thriller about the allure of the past and the danger of the truth as a young woman dives headlong into a cult in a desperate search for answers.In the far reaches of the Pacific Northwest, three best friends spend a day at the lake…but only two come home...Categorized as:
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![Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III]()
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love... -
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![Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One by Raphaëlle Giordano]()
Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One by Raphaëlle Giordano
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her "routine-itis" leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and Hector and the Search for Happiness.At thirty-eight and a quarter years old, Paris native Camille has everything she needs to be happy, or so it seems: a good job, a loving husband, a wonderful son... -
![The Miracle Girl by Andrew Roe, Julia Szajkowska]()
The Miracle Girl by Andrew Roe, Julia Szajkowska
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe crowds keep coming. More and more every day it seems . . . drawn by rumor and whisper and desperate wish. Somehow they heard about the little girl on Shaker Street. They come to see eight-year-old Anabelle Vincent, who lies in a comalike state--unable to move or speak. They come because a visitor experienced what seemed like a miracle and believed it was because of Anabelle. Word spread...Categorized as:
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S. by John Updike
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsS. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve moksha (salvation, release from illusion). “S... -
![Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord, Lorenza García]()
Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord, Lorenza García
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPA charming fable about modern life that has touched the hearts of more than two million readers worldwide. Hector's journey around the world and into the human soul is entertaining, empowering, and smile inducing#8212;as winning in its optimism as it is powerful in its insight and reassuring in its simplicity...Categorized as:
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