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koki's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:33:50 -0700 60 koki's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Mrs. Dalloway 14942 194 Virginia Woolf 0151009988 koki 0 currently-reading 3.80 1925

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]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing��though absurdly comic��meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 koki 0 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis

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]]> Th��r��se Raquin 110871 Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society.

Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man, and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime.

Zola's shocking tale dispassionately dissects the motivations of his characters--mere "human beasts", who kill in order to satisfy their lust--and stands as a key manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which the author was the founding father. Published in 1867, this is Zola's most important work before the Rougon-Macquart series and introduces many of the themes that can be traced through the later novel cycle.]]> 201 ?mile Zola 0140449442 koki 0 3.73 1867 Th��r��se Raquin

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]]> On the Road 70401 307 Jack Kerouac 0140042598 koki 0 currently-reading 3.63 1957

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]]> Nordic Fauna 56258530 160 Andrea Lundgren 1908670630 koki 0 3.62 2018

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]]> Far inte till havet 201330437
Runtom dem kliver det moderna samh?llet n?rmare, men de nya elledningarna dras h?gt ovanf?r dem, utan att ansluta. I luften knastrar elen och f?glarnas kvitter f?rsvinner.

N?r R��vdn�� best?mmer sig f?r att bygga ett riktigt hus, trots att hon egentligen inte f?r lov som nomadiserande same, blir den lilla familjen mer och mer distanserad fr?n de ?vriga i byn. Och vattnet, det kommer ob?nh?rligt tillbaka.

Augustprisvinnaren Elin Anna Labba romandebuterar med en stark mor- och dotterskildring d?r det krypande, stigande vattnet ?r som en egen varelse. Det som en g?ng gav liv, blir ett st?ndigt hot. Om en mor som protesterar och blir alltmer isolerad, och dottern som ?nskar l?gga det som kr?vs bakom sig, f?r att f? det som alla andra.]]> 370 Elin Anna Labba 9113113402 koki 0 3.85 2024 Far inte till havet

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]]> Billy Summers 56852407
How about everything...]]> 517 Stephen King 1982173610 koki 0 to-read 4.11 2021

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]]> Anna Karenina 15823480 Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]> 964 Leo Tolstoy 0345803922 koki 0 4.11 1878 Anna Karenina

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]]> The Moonstone 6138
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 528 Wilkie Collins 0375757856 koki 0 to-read 3.90 1868

author: Wilkie Collins
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]]> Killing Commendatore 38820047
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist��s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art��as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby��Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.]]> 681 Haruki Murakami 052552004X koki 0 to-read 3.88 2017

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]]> Slaughterhouse-Five 4981 Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world��s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber��s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming ��unstuck in time.��

An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut��s writing��the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit��that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.

Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era��s uncertainties.]]> 275 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. koki 0 to-read 4.10 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five

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]]> Desirada 443669 262 Maryse Cond�� 1569472637 koki 0 3.52 1997

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]]> <![CDATA[Jag erk?nner inte l?ngre er auktoritet]]> 211433113 335 Glenn Bech 9172477253 koki 0 3.71 2022

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]]> The Grapes of Wrath 18114322
First published in 1939, Steinbeck��s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads��driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man��s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman��s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck��s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]> 496 John Steinbeck 067001690X koki 0 4.06 1939 The Grapes of Wrath

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]]> <![CDATA[Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)]]> 51637946 Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before the Clone Wars...Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in the High Republic.

It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the farthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi. With the Jedi at the height of their power, the free citizens of the galaxy are confident in their ability to weather any storm. But even the brightest light can cast a shadow, and some storms defy any preparation.

When a shocking catastrophe in hyperspace tears a ship to pieces, the flurry of shrapnel emerging from the disaster threatens an entire system. No sooner does the call for help go out than the Jedi race to the scene. The scope of the emergence, however, is enough to push even Jedi to their limit. As the sky breaks open and destruction rains down upon the peaceful alliance they helped to build, the Jedi must trust in the Force to see them through a day in which a single mistake could cost billions of lives.

Even as the Jedi battle valiantly against calamity, something truly deadly grows beyond the boundary of the Republic. The hyperspace disaster is far more sinister than the Jedi could ever suspect. A threat hides in the darkness, far from the light of the age, and harbors a secret that could strike fear into even a Jedi's heart.]]> 380 Charles Soule 0593157710 koki 0 to-read 3.91 2021 Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)

Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)

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]]> The Red Tenda of Bologna 36436069
A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.]]> 64 John Berger 0241339014 koki 0 4.08 2007 The Red Tenda of Bologna

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]]> If We Were Villains 30319086
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.]]> 354 M.L. Rio 125009528X koki 0 The sweetest pain ig 4.11 2017 If We Were Villains

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The sweetest pain ig
]]> Visitation 8638226 Visitation offers the life stories of twelve individuals who seek to make their home in this one magical little house. The novel breaks into the everyday life of the house and shimmers through it, while relating the passions and fates of its inhabitants. Elegant and poetic, Visitation forms a literary mosaic of the last century, tearing open wounds and offering moments of reconciliation, with its drama and its exquisite evocation of a landscape no political upheaval can truly change.]]> 160 Jenny Erpenbeck 081121835X koki 0 3.76 2008 Visitation

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]]> A Room of One��s Own 18521 A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf koki 0 4.21 1929 A Room of One��s Own

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]]> Shame 124950408
With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.]]> 112 Annie Ernaux koki 0 to-read 3.72 1997 Shame

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]]> <![CDATA[The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)]]> 123675190
Read the book that launched Percy Jackson into the stratosphere before the Disney+ series comes out!

Lately, mythological monsters and the Olympian gods seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy Jackson��s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus.?

Whether you are new to Percy or a longtime fan, this tie-in paperback edition with full-color photos from the Disney+ series is a must-have for your library.]]> 416 Rick Riordan 1368098169 koki 0 4.37 2005 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Titan��s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)]]> 561456
But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.

Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...]]> 352 Rick Riordan koki 0 4.37 2007 The Titan��s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)

The Titan��s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Queen's Tiara (Great Swedish Classics)]]> 784593 304 Carl Jonas Love Almqvist 1900850427 koki 0 UJAS 3.54 1834

The Queen's Tiara (Great Swedish Classics)

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UJAS
]]> <![CDATA[Der Sandmann/The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann: The Original German and a New English Translation with Critical Introductions]]> 52536373 126 E.T.A. Hoffmann 076187190X koki 0 3.67 1816

Der Sandmann/The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann: The Original German and a New English Translation with Critical Introductions

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]]> <![CDATA[The Song of Kieu: A New Lament]]> 40723757 A stunning new translation of the legendary Vietnamese epic poem, now for the first time in Penguin Classics

Considered the greatest literary achievement in Vietnamese, The Song of Kieu tells the story of the beautiful Vuong Thuy Kieu, who agrees to a financially profitable marriage in order to save her family from ruinous debts, but is tricked into working in a brothel. Her tragic life involves jealous wives, slavery, war, poverty, and time as a nun. Adapted from a seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Jin Yun Qiao, written by an unknown writer under the pseudonym Qingxin Cairen, author Nguyen Du upended the plot's traditional love story by conveying the social and political upheavals at the end of the 18th century in Vietnam.]]> 166 Du Nguyen 0241360668 koki 0 4.45 1820 The Song of Kieu: A New Lament

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]]> The Sorrows of Young Werther 16640 149 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0812969901 koki 0 3.71 1774

author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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]]> Book Lovers 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens�� life is books��she��s read them all��and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters�� trip away��with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she��s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they��ve met many times and it��s never been cute.

If Nora knows she��s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he��s nobody��s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again��in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow��what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they��ve written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 koki 0 4.09 2022 Book Lovers

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]]> Candide 19380 Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that �� contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss �� all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.]]> 129 Voltaire 0486266893 koki 1 Neveroqtno prejivqvane 3.76 1759 Candide

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]]> Tartuffe 52823

Condemned and banned for five years in �ѴǱ��s day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe worms his way into Orgon��s household, blinding the master of the house with his religious "devotion," and almost succeeds in his attempts to seduce his wife and disinherit his children before the final unmasking.

]]> 180 �ѴǱ�� 1854596373 koki 1 Ne moga da go ponasqm. 3.68 1664 Tartuffe

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]]> Great Big Beautiful Life 218559595 Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they��re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she��ll choose the person who��ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice��s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice��and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She��s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can��t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they��re in the same room.

And it��s becoming abundantly clear that their story��just like the tale Margaret��s spinning��could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad��depending on who��s telling it.]]> 384 Emily Henry 059344129X koki 0 to-read 4.26 2025 Great Big Beautiful Life

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]]> �ʳ󨨻�� 81864 Brytanik
Berenika
Ifigenia
Fedra]]> 55 Jean Racine 203034785X koki 0 3.70 1677

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]]> Happy Place 61718053
They broke up six months ago. And still haven��t told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group��s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they��ll all have together in this place. They can��t stand to break their friends�� hearts, and so they��ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It��s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week�� in front of those who know you best?

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.]]> 400 Emily Henry 0593441273 koki 0 3.95 2023 Happy Place

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]]> A Midsummer Night��s Dream 1622 298 William Shakespeare 0743477545 koki 0 3.95 1595

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]]> Romeo and Juliet 18135 Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers�� final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.]]> 281 William Shakespeare 0743477111 koki 0 3.74 1597 Romeo and Juliet

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]]> The Tempest 12985
Each edition includes:
? Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

? Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

? Scene-by-scene plot summaries

? A key to famous lines and phrases

? An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

? An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

? Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books]]> 218 William Shakespeare koki 0 3.79 1611 The Tempest

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]]> Hamlet 1420 289 William Shakespeare 0521618746 koki 0 4.02 1601 Hamlet

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]]> <![CDATA[On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft]]> 10569 (back cover)]]> 320 Stephen King 0743455967 koki 5 4.33 2000

author: Stephen King
name: koki
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family��but especially love��from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties��successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father��s death, he��s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women��his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude��a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 koki 0 to-read 3.88 2024 Intermezzo

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]]> Funny Story 194802722 A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fianc��, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children��s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra��s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic��with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads��Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she��s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it��s all just for show, of course, because there��s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fianc��s new fianc��e��s ex... right?]]> 400 Emily Henry koki 0 4.21 2024 Funny Story

author: Emily Henry
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> Elephant and Other Stories 11453
Stories included:
- Boxes
- Whoever Was Using this Bed
- Intimacy
- Menudo
- Elephant
- Blackbird Pie
- Errand]]> 124 Raymond Carver 0099449862 koki 0 4.15 1988 Elephant and Other Stories

author: Raymond Carver
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> Love in the New Millennium 39644407
In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee��whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions.
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Can Xue��s masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love��s many guises��satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling��against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.]]> 288 Can Xue 0300224311 koki 0 3.27 2013 Love in the New Millennium

author: Can Xue
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average rating: 3.27
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]]> Ham on Rye 38501 288 Charles Bukowski 006117758X koki 0 to-read 4.17 1982

author: Charles Bukowski
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]]> <![CDATA[You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense]]> 38504 Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

��The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.�� Joyce Carol Oates

��[Bukowski] brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.�� Leonard Cohen, songwriter]]> 320 Charles Bukowski 0876856830 koki 0 to-read 4.19 1986 You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

author: Charles Bukowski
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]]> Love Is a Dog from Hell 23534 A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a ��passionate madman.�� Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love��its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.]]> 312 Charles Bukowski 0876853629 koki 0 to-read 4.01 1977 Love Is a Dog from Hell

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]]> Post Office 40409718 162 Charles Bukowski koki 0 to-read 3.89 1971

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]]> The Remains of the Day 28921 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.]]> 258 Kazuo Ishiguro koki 0 4.14 1989 The Remains of the Day

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average rating: 4.14
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)]]> 23437156 Alternate cover of ISBN 9781627792127

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price��and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can��t pull it off alone...

A convict with a thirst for revenge

A sharpshooter who can��t walk away from a wager

A runaway with a privileged past

A spy known as the Wraith

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz��s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction��if they don��t kill each other first.]]> 480 Leigh Bardugo 1627792120 koki 5 4.47 2015 Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)

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average rating: 4.47
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) 43263680
Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale��s secret societies. These eight windowless ��tombs�� are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood��s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.]]> 461 Leigh Bardugo 1250313074 koki 0 to-read 4.00 2019 Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

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]]> The Familiar 133286777 From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position.

What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio P��rez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen��and P��rez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive��even if that means enlisting the help of Guill��n Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.]]> 387 Leigh Bardugo 125088425X koki 0 to-read 3.74 2024 The Familiar

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]]> <![CDATA[Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)]]> 36307674
The wolves are circling and a young king will face his greatest challenge in the explosive finale of the instant #1 New York Times-bestselling King of Scars Duology.

The Demon King. As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm��and even the monster within��to win this fight. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king's gift for the impossible.

The Stormwitch. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. Now duty demands she embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. No matter the cost.

The Queen of Mourning. Deep undercover, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital. But her desire for revenge may cost her country its chance at freedom and Nina the chance to heal her grieving heart.

King. General. Spy. Together they must find a way to forge a future in the darkness. Or watch a nation fall.]]> 592 Leigh Bardugo 1510109188 koki 0 4.34 2021 Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)

author: Leigh Bardugo
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> <![CDATA[King of Scars (King of Scars, #1)]]> 36307634 Face your demons... or feed them.

The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war--and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.

Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha general, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren't meant to stay buried--and some wounds aren't meant to heal.]]> 511 Leigh Bardugo 125014227X koki 0 4.16 2019 King of Scars (King of Scars, #1)

author: Leigh Bardugo
name: koki
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)]]> 14061957 Alternative Cover Edition #1

The capital has fallen.

The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.

Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.

Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction��and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she��s fighting for.]]> 350 Leigh Bardugo koki 0 3.97 2014 Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)

Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)

author: Leigh Bardugo
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)]]> 14061955 Alternative Cover Edition #1

Darkness never dies.

Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can��t outrun her past or her destiny for long.

The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling��s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her��or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.]]> 435 Leigh Bardugo koki 0 3.81 2013 Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

author: Leigh Bardugo
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]]> <![CDATA[Twenty Years After (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #2)]]> 7184
Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.

Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.]]> 845 Alexandre Dumas 0192838431 koki 0 4.06 1845 Twenty Years After (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #2)

Twenty Years After (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #2)

author: Alexandre Dumas
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]]> The Doors of Perception 3188964 The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline.

The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'.

Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision". He also incorporates later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.]]> 208 Aldous Huxley koki 0 to-read 3.91 1956 The Doors of Perception

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]]> 1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1) 6443834 ��2009�ꡢ��1��84��η��򤫤�1984��褤��ȥС�h�Ǥ��롣
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˽��Ƥ��ڤ��ǤϤʤ��ä��⤷��ʤ��Ǥ��Τȡ��礦��ͬ��褦�ˡ��ձ�> 554 Haruki Murakami 4103534222 koki 3 4.02 2009 1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1)

author: Haruki Murakami
name: koki
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2009
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)]]> 10194157 Alternative Cover Edition #1

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life��a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.]]> 358 Leigh Bardugo 1250048117 koki 0 3.93 2012 Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)

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average rating: 3.93
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]]> <![CDATA[Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)]]> 22299763
Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.

Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.

A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets - a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.]]> 561 Leigh Bardugo koki 0 4.58 2016 Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

author: Leigh Bardugo
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average rating: 4.58
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)]]> 36679274
Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher��the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but Kel knows that his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible.

Lin Caster is one of the Ashkar, a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. By law, they must live behind walls within the city, but Lin, a physician, ventures out to tend to the sick and dying of Castellane. Despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge.

After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the criminal ruler of Castellane��s underworld. He offers them each what they want most; but as they descend into his world of intrigue and shadow, they discover a conspiracy of corruption that reaches from the darkest gutters of Castellane to the highest tower of its palaces.

As long-kept secrets begin to unravel, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? Can forbidden love bring down a kingdom? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war��and the world into chaos?]]> 624 Cassandra Clare 0525619992 koki 0 3.79 2023 Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)

Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane, #2)]]> 36692308
Kel Saren, body double to Conor, crown prince of the dazzling city of Castellane, is caught between two worlds. In order to protect his beloved prince, Kel must find the culprits responsible for a massacre at the royal palace��and the only clues are held by the Ragpicker King, the notorious criminal who rules Castellane��s underworld. The trail Kel follows leads back to the Hill, where among decadent nobles and glittering parties a dark conspiracy to destroy the royal family has taken hold��a conspiracy headed up by the monstrous Artal Gremont, the man engaged to marry the woman Kel adores.

Meanwhile, Lin Caster must face the aftermath of the greatest risk she��s ever taken. To save the life of a dying friend, Lin has falsely claimed to be the Goddess Reborn, the legendary heroine destined to save her people. Now the terrifying��but strangely magnetic��leader of her people has arrived to test her powers. The price of failure is exile, and only through her alliance with the Ragpicker King can she continue to access the magic that may save her.

Then Prince Conor reappears in her life, demanding that she use her healing powers to cure the madness of his father, the King. Lin soon realizes the King is gripped by an ancient and terrible magic, one whose lure she cannot deny any more than she can deny her growing passion for Conor.

As the simmering tensions in Castellane reach a fever pitch, Lin and Kel must decide who to trust when any false move means death��or worse.]]> 480 Cassandra Clare 1529001447 koki 0 to-read 4.46 2025 The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane, #2)

The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)]]> 17675462 ��There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark��s Eve,�� Neeve said. ��Either you��re his true love . . . or you killed him.��

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them��not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can��t entirely explain. He has it all��family money, good looks, devoted friends��but he��s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she��s not so sure anymore.]]> 409 Maggie Stiefvater 0545424925 koki 0 to-read 4.05 2012 The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)]]> 59808071 Not every love is meant to be.

After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Now that she��s discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away.

But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. Only this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn��t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of. In fact, he might be the only one she can trust, despite her desire to despise him.

Instead of a love spell wreaking havoc on Evangeline��s life, a murderous spell has been cast. To break it, Evangeline and Jacks will have to do battle with old friends, new foes, and a magic that plays with heads and hearts. Evangeline has always trusted her heart, but this time she��s not sure she can...]]> 416 Stephanie Garber 1250268427 koki 0 to-read 4.49 2022 The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)]]> 55987278 How far would you go for happily ever after?

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.

Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic but wicked Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing.

But after Evangeline��s first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game��and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she��d pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after or the most exquisite tragedy...]]> 408 Stephanie Garber 1250268397 koki 0 to-read 4.06 2021 Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)]]> 183086339
After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King, and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she��s running from the one person she had wanted to run to.

Kai Azer is now Ilya��s Enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt, the new King. He has vowed to find Paedyn and bring her to justice.

Across the deadly Scorches, and deep into the hostile city of Dor, Kai pursues the one person he wishes he didn��t have to. But in a city without Elites, the balance between the hunter and hunted shifts �C and the battle between duty and desire is deadly.

Be swept away by this kiss-or-kill romantasy trilogy taking the world by storm.]]> 396 Lauren Roberts koki 0 to-read 4.07 2024 Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)]]> 75513900 She is the very thing he��s spent his whole life hunting.
He is the very thing she��s spent her whole life pretending to be.

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya��the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites.

The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that��ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to preserve his Elite society, lacking an ability suddenly became a crime��making Paedyn Gray a felon by fate and a thief by necessity.

Surviving in the slums as an Ordinary is no simple task, and Paedyn knows this better than most. Having been trained by her father to be overly observant since she was a child, Paedyn poses as a Psychic in the crowded city, blending in with the Elites as best she can in order to stay alive and out of trouble. Easier said than done.

When Paeydn unsuspectingly saves one of Ilyas princes, she finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials. The brutal competition exists to showcase the Elites�� powers��the very thing Paedyn lacks. If the Trials and the opponents within them don��t kill her, the prince she��s fighting feelings for certainly will if he discovers what she is��completely Ordinary.]]> 523 Lauren Roberts koki 0 to-read 4.17 2023 Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

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]]> Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2) 90202302 ��The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.�� Xaden Riorson

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College��Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.

Now the real training begins, and Violet��s already wondering how she��ll get through. It��s not just that it��s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it��s designed to stretch the riders�� capacity for pain beyond endurance. It��s the new vice commandant, who��s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is�Cunless she betrays the man she loves.

Although Violet��s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else��s, she still has her wits��and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.

But a determination to survive won��t be enough this year.

Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College��and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.]]> 623 Rebecca Yarros 1649374178 koki 0 to-read 4.34 2023 Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

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]]> Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) 209439446
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves��her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find��the truth. But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.]]> 527 Rebecca Yarros 1649374186 koki 0 to-read 4.18 2025 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general��also known as her tough-as-talons mother��has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you��re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don��t bond to ��fragile�� humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother��s daughter��like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She��ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda��because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]> 665 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 koki 0 to-read 4.56 2023 Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Prisoner��s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)]]> 61250159 An imprisoned prince. A vengeful queen. And a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame.
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Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, he must rely on charm and calculation to survive. With High King Cardan and High Queen Jude willing to use any means necessary to retrieve their stolen heir, Oak will have to decide whether to attempt regaining the trust of the girl he��s always loved or to remain loyal to Elfhame and hand over the means to end her reign��even if it means ending Wren, too.??
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With a new war looming on the horizon and treachery lurking in every corner, neither Oak��s guile nor his wit will be enough to keep everyone he loves alive. It��s just a question of whom he will doom.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes the stunning blood-soaked conclusion to the Stolen Heir duology.
?]]> 359 Holly Black 0316592730 koki 0 3.89 2024 The Prisoner��s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

The Prisoner��s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)]]> 61198133 A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.

Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.

Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.

Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. He��s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren��s help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.

#1?New York Times?bestselling author Holly Black returns to the opulent world of Elfhame in the first book in a thrilling new duology, following Jude's brother Oak, and the changeling queen, Suren.]]> 356 Holly Black 0316592706 koki 0 3.92 2023 The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)

The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)

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]]> Check & Mate 60683957 done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious "Kingkiller" Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning bad boy of chess.

Nolan's loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone��especially Mallory. What's even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to walk away. Resign. Game over. But Mallory's victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes and, despite everything, she can't help feeling drawn to the enigmatic strategist....

As she rockets up the ranks, Mallory struggles to keep her family safely separated from the game that wrecked it in the first place. And as her love for the sport she so desperately wanted to hate begins to rekindle, Mallory quickly realizes that the games aren't only on the board, the spotlight is hotter than she imagined, and the competition can be fierce(-ly attractive. And intelligent...and infuriating...)]]> 347 Ali Hazelwood 0593619919 koki 0 to-read 3.93 2023 Check & Mate

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]]> <![CDATA[The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)]]> 26032912 He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan��s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict��s bloody politics.

And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity��

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy.]]> 321 Holly Black 0316310409 koki 0 4.33 2019 The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)

The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)]]> 26032887 The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.

The first lesson is to make yourself strong.

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.

When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.]]> 336 Holly Black 0316310336 koki 0 4.27 2019 The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They��re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him�Cand face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]> 370 Holly Black 0316310271 koki 0 4.01 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)]]> 207293948
Flash forward months later, and Wes and Liz find themselves in college, together. In a healthier place now, Wes knows he broke Liz��s heart when he ended things, but he is determined to make her fall back in love with him.

Wes knows Liz better than anyone, and he has a foolproof plan to win her back with rom-com-worthy grand gestures she loves. Only . . . Liz will have none of it! Wes has to scheme like a rom-com hero to figure out how to see her. Even worse, Liz has a new friend . . . a guy friend.

Still, Wes won��t give up, adapting his clever plans and going hard to get Liz��s attention and win back her affection. But after his best efforts get him nowhere, Wes is left wondering if their relationship is really over for good.]]> 442 Lynn Painter 1665947136 koki 0 to-read 3.99 2024 Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)

Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)]]> 157265081
From dawn to midnight over the course of a single day, follow the Kingkiller Chronicle's most charming fae as he schemes and sneaks, dancing into trouble and back out again with uncanny grace.

The Narrow Road Between Desires is Bast's story. In it he traces the old ways of making and breaking, following his heart even when doing so goes against his better judgement.

After all, what good is caution if it keeps him from danger and delight?]]> 240 Patrick Rothfuss 0756419182 koki 0 4.01 2023 The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

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average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)]]> 21535271
Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a brief, bittersweet glimpse of Auri��s life, a small adventure all her own. At once joyous and haunting, this story offers a chance to see the world through Auri��s eyes. And it gives the reader a chance to learn things that only Auri knows...

In this book, Patrick Rothfuss brings us into the world of one of The Kingkiller Chronicle��s most enigmatic characters. Full of secrets and mysteries, The Slow Regard of Silent Things is the story of a broken girl trying to live in a broken world.

AUTHOR��S FOREWORD

You might not want to buy this book.

I know, that��s not the sort of thing an author is supposed to say. The marketing people aren��t going to like this. My editor is going to have a fit. But I��d rather be honest with you right out of the gate.

First, if you haven��t read my other books, you don��t want to start here.

My first two books are The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man��s Fear. If you��re curious to try my writing, start there. They��re the best introduction to my world. This book deals with Auri, one of the characters from that series. Without the context of those books, you��re probably going to feel pretty lost.

Second, even if you have read my other books, I think it��s only fair to warn you that this is a bit of a strange story. I don��t go in for spoilers, but suffice to say that this one is ... different. It doesn��t do a lot of the things a classic story is supposed to do. And if you��re looking for a continuation of Kvothe��s storyline, you��re not going to find it here.

On the other hand, if you��d like to learn more about Auri, this story has a lot to offer. If you love words and mysteries and secrets. If you��re curious about the Underthing and alchemy. If you want to know more about the hidden turnings of my world...

Well, then this book might be for you.

]]> 159 Patrick Rothfuss 0756410436 koki 0 3.88 2014 The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

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]]> <![CDATA[Doors of Stone (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #3)]]> 10394348 Patrick Rothfuss 1423389441 koki 0 to-read 3.76

Doors of Stone (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)]]> 1215032 There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.��

My name is Kvothe.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.

So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view �� a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man's Fear, an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe uncovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King's Road.

All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, is forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived ... until Kvothe.

In The Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.

]]> 994 Patrick Rothfuss 0756404738 koki 0 4.55 2011 The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)

The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)]]> 186074
The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.

A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.]]> 662 Patrick Rothfuss 075640407X koki 0 4.52 2007 The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

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]]> A Tale of Two Cities 1953 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens��s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author��s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes��imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 489 Charles Dickens 0141439602 koki 5 3.86 1859

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]]> Ahsoka (Star Wars) 29749107 400 E.K. Johnston koki 0 4.08 2016

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]]> <![CDATA[No Prisoners (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, #3)]]> 5560685
Torrent Company��s Captain Rex agrees to temporarily relieve Anakin Skywalker of Ahsoka, his ubiquitous�Cand insatiably curious�CPadawan, by bringing her along on a routine three-day shakedown cruise aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeon��s newly refitted assault ship. But the training run becomes an active�Cand dangerous�Crescue mission when Republic undercover agent Hallena Devis goes missing in the middle of a Separatist invasion.

Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution, Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Republic��s methods�Cand motives. Summoned to rescue the missing operative who is also his secret love, Pellaeon�Csworn to protect the Republic over all�Cis torn between duty and desire. And Ahsoka, sent in with Rex and six untested clone troopers to extract Hallena, encounters a new and different Jedi philosophy, which shakes the foundation of her upbringing to the core. As danger and intrigue intensify, the loyalties and convictions of all involved will be tested. . . .]]> 257 Karen Traviss 0345508998 koki 0 3.90 2009 No Prisoners (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, #3)

No Prisoners (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Star Wars Novelizations, #2.5)]]> 2919938
Anakin Skywalker, believed by some to be the prophesied ��Chosen One�� destined to bring balance to the Force, is now a Jedi Knight under the tutelage of his Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Death is a constant possibility�Cand his chances of survival aren��t improved by the unexpected arrival of an apprentice: Ahsoka, a brash, inexperienced fourteen-year-old Padawan apprenticed to Anakin. But there��s no time for Anakin to question his latest orders: He and Obi-Wan have been assigned a new mission, and failure is not an option.

Jabba the Hutt��s precious infant son has been kidnapped, and when the frantic parent applies to the Jedi for help, it falls to Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and their clone troops to track down the evidence and retrieve the missing Huttlet. And more is at stake: For a grateful Jabba just might allow the Republic access to the Hutt-controlled space lanes that the Grand Army desperately needs in order to beat the Separatists into submission.

But the Republic is not the only power that craves access to those space lanes. Count Dooku, determined to win the prize for the Separatists, has set a trap for the Jedi. When they find the Huttlet, they will also find Dooku��s master assassin, Asajj Ventress, and countless legions of battle droids waiting to spring a trap.

The blazing new animated feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars takes place in the years preceding Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and sets the stage for the groundbreaking TV series. Both contain all original material�Cdirect from the brilliant imagination of legendary Star Wars creator George Lucas. And these exciting new adventures and characters are being brought to life in book form by none other than #1 New York Times bestselling Star Wars author Karen Traviss.]]> 256 Karen Traviss 034550898X koki 0 3.81 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Star Wars Novelizations, #2.5)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Star Wars Novelizations, #2.5)

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]]> <![CDATA[Wild Space (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, #2)]]> 3108764
The Separatists have launched a sneak attack on Coruscant. Obi-Wan Kenobi, wounded in battle, insists that Anakin Skywalker and his rookie Padawan Ahsoka leave on a risky mission against General Grievous. But when Senator Bail Organa reveals explosive intelligence that could turn the tide of war in the Republic��s favor, the Jedi Master agrees to accompany him to an obscure planet on the Outer Rim to verify the facts. What Obi-Wan and Bail don��t realize is that they��re walking into a deadly trap concocted by Palpatine . . . and that escape may not be an option.

Inspired by the full-length animated feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the brand-new TV series, this thrilling adventure is filled with provocative, never-before-revealed insights into the characters of Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padme, Yoda, Count Dooku, and many other Star Wars favorites.]]> 342 Karen Miller 0345509013 koki 0 3.87 2008 Wild Space (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, #2)

Wild Space (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, #2)

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]]> A Little Life 22822858
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride.?Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he��ll not only be unable to overcome��but that will define his life forever.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539258 koki 0 4.28 2015 A Little Life

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]]> <![CDATA[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]> 41880609 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born �� a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam �� and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.]]> 246 Ocean Vuong 0525562028 koki 0 to-read 4.05 2019 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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]]> Apples Never Fall 56143578 #1 New York Times Bestseller
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest

The Delaney family love one another dearly��it��s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .

If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?

This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.

The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They��re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they��ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are Stan and Joy so miserable?

The four Delaney children��Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke��were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But that��s okay, now that they��re all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon.

One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy��s door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted.

Later, when Joy goes missing, and Savannah is nowhere to be found, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. But for someone who claims to be innocent, he, like many spouses, seems to have a lot to hide. Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure��but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.]]> 467 Liane Moriarty 1250220254 koki 0 3.69 2021 Apples Never Fall

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]]> Alone With You in the Ether 61126612
Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.

For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision.

To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse.

For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability��until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?

From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.]]> 288 Olivie Blake 1250888166 koki 0 3.69 2020

author: Olivie Blake
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> Sula 11346 174 Toni Morrison 0452283868 koki 0 to-read 4.05 1973 Sula

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]]> The Goldfinch 17333223
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.]]> 771 Donna Tartt 0316055433 koki 5 3.94 2013 The Goldfinch

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average rating: 3.94
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> Paradise Lost 15997 Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.

Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.]]> 453 John Milton 0140424393 koki 0 to-read 3.83 1667 Paradise Lost

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]]> Birthday Girl 39555142 JORDAN

He took me in when I had nowhere else to go. He doesn��t use me, hurt me, or forget about me. He listens to me, protects me, and sees me. I can feel his eyes on me over the breakfast table, and my heart pumps so hard when I hear him pull in the driveway after work.

I have to stop this. It can��t happen.

My sister once told me there are no good men, and if you find one, he��s probably unavailable. Only Pike Lawson isn��t the unavailable one.
I am.

PIKE

I took her in, because I thought I was helping. As the days go by, though, it��s becoming anything but easy. I have to stop my mind from drifting to her and stop holding my breath every time I bump into her in the house. I can��t touch her, and I shouldn��t want to.

But we��re not free to give into this. She��s nineteen, and I��m thirty-eight.

And her boyfriend��s father.

Unfortunately, they both just moved into my house.]]> 349 Penelope Douglas koki 0 3.85 2018 Birthday Girl

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name: koki
average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)]]> 63035432
Unfortunately, the gods aren��t quite done with him yet. Poseidon breaks the bad news that if Percy expects to get into New Rome University, he will have to fulfill three quests in order to earn the necessary three letters of recommendation from Mount Olympus.

The first task is to help Ganymede, Zeus��s cupbearer, retrieve his golden goblet before it falls into the wrong hands. You see, one sip from it can turn a mortal into a god, and Zeus would not be pleased with that result. Can Percy and his friends Grover and Annabeth find the precious cup in time? And if they do, will they be able to resist its special power?

Readers new to Percy Jackson universe and fans who have been awaiting this reunion for more than a decade will delight equally in this latest hilarious take on Greek mythology by the "storyteller of the gods."]]> 288 Rick Riordan 1368098177 koki 0 4.27 2023 The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)

The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)

author: Rick Riordan
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 2023
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��ާѧ� �� ֧�ݧڧ�ѧ�� ܧ��ڧէ��, ��ܧݧ�ߧ֧ߧڧ� �� ѧ�, �ܧ�ۧ�� ާ֧�ӧ� �ާڧߧѧݧ� �� ߧѧ��, �ާڧ� �� է�ܧ�ާ֧ߧ�. ��ҧڧ�� ڧ��ڧ� �� اڧӧ��ߧ� �� ӧ�֧ܧ� ��, ��ѧӧ� �ܧѧ��ݧ� �ߧ� �ߧ֧��ѧۧߧ�� ٧ѧ�ѧէ� ��ߧ٧�, �ܧ�ۧ�� ڧާ� �է� �ڧէӧ� �C ��ѧ��ܧѧݧڧ��ڧ�֧� ��ڧ�ѧ�֧�, �ҧ�� ڧݧ� ��ݧ��.]]> 344 Georgi Gospodinov 9544917489 koki 4 4.13 2011 ��ڧ٧ڧܧ� �ߧ� ��ԧѧ��

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average rating: 4.13
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rating: 4
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�� ӧ�֧ާ֧�ҧ֧اڧ�ѧ��, �ܧ�ڧ�� ڧ�, �ܧ�ԧѧ�� ֧ԧѧ�ߧ�� ߧ� �ߧ� �� ӧ֧�� է��."
��֧��ԧ� ��էڧߧ��]]> 372 Georgi Gospodinov 6191865627 koki 5 4.07 2020 ��֧ާ֧�ҧ֧اڧ��

author: Georgi Gospodinov
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> Queen Margot 153875 542 Alexandre Dumas 0786880821 koki 0 to-read 4.17 1845

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]]> <![CDATA[The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne #4)]]> 54499 470 Alexandre Dumas 0140439242 koki 0 to-read 4.00 1847

The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne #4)

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]]> Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd. 56088747 The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.

Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna.

It doesn��t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors �C which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic.

Back in Stockholm, Kevin��s path crosses with Jenny��s �C and they have an awful lot to talk about, not least a shared desire to get even with Victor. So it��s convenient when they run into a man selling revenge services, who has an ingenious idea involving Victor��s cellar, a goat, some forged paintings, four large boxes of sex toys, and a kilo of flour ��]]> 367 Jonas Jonasson 0008407568 koki 4 3.84 2020 Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.

author: Jonas Jonasson
name: koki
average rating: 3.84
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rating: 4
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