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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
"My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked …
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"My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked …

Thomas Harris will seize you with an emotion more profound than terror.
Of his previous novel, Stephen King wrote, "The …

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the …

An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a …

The Lovely Bones (2006)
The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl …

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want …

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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of …

The Diary of a Young Girl (1998, Addison Wesley Longman)
Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two …

Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and …

Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …

"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death …

In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, …

1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help …

Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of …