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]]> 58453557 وأي نور يشع فهو من دواخل الأخيار فقط ..
وسيطفأ ويخمد ذلك الضوء مع أول مواجهة مع ظلام ظالم ..
لنعود للعتمة .. في انتظار وهج جديد يحيينا ..
ويجدد أملنا في وهم النقاء ..]]> 120 6038333614 Mayar 2 3.97 2021
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]]> 7701043 322 حسن الجندي 9777780559 Mayar 5 4.11 2009
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هل أنت مستعد.. سأخبرك عن الجريمة ... الجريمة الكاملة؟]]> 366 معاذ عيد الحنبني 9921755994 Mayar 0 currently-reading 3.62
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]]> 220324897 كل ما أستطيع قوله هو.. مرحبا بك في أكثر رواية مُحيّرة وغامضة.. مرحبا بك في هذا الكتاب.. (كِتاب خالِد).]]> 232 عبدالوهاب السيد الرفاعي 9921811215 Mayar 3 3.51 2024
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]]> 3120143 463 Ghazi A. Algosaibi Mayar 2 4.11 1994
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]]> 12091888 وفي الحالة الجماهيرية تنخفض الطاقة على التفكير، ويذوب المغاير في المتجانس، بينما تطغى الخصائص التي تصدر عن اللاوعي.
وحتى لو كانت الجماهير علمانية، تبقى لديها ردود فعل دينية، تفضي بها إلى عبادة الزعيم، وإلى الخوف من بأسه، وإلى الإذعان الأعمى لمشيئته، فيصبح كلامه دوغما لا تناقش، وتنشأ الرغبة إلى تعميم هذه الدوغما. أما الذين لا يشاطرون الجماهير إعجابها بكلام الزعيم فيبحون هم الأعداء، لا جماهير من دون قائد كما لا قائد من دون جماهير. كتب لوبون قبل قرن من الزمن.
للتحميل: ]]> 200 Gustave Le Bon 1855168154 Mayar 0 to-read 3.79 1895
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]]> 3077927
هى الرواية التي كتبها الأديب الفرنسي "ألفونس كار" (1808-1890م)، وقد اطلع "المنفلوطي" على تعريبها؛ فأعجِب بها، وأعاد صياغتها بأسلوبه الخاص، ونشرها تحت عنوان "ماجدولين" أو "تحت ظلال الزيزفون".

والرواية هى باكورة أعمال "ألفونس كار" الأدبية، كتبها متأثر بالمدرسة الرومانسية التي سيطرت على الأدب في تلك الحقبة من تاريخ فرنسا، وقد اعتمد على أسلوب المراسلة في تدوين أحداثها، تاركاً لعنصر الخيال دوراً أساسياً في تحريك أشخاص الرواية بين أحضان الطبيعة الخارجية التي أحبها الكاتب وجعلها الإطار الأساسي لروايته.

لقد تأثر "المنفلوطي" بالرواية، وبادر إلى نقلها إلى اللغة العربية، لما فيها من دعوة صريحة إلى التماسك بقيم الحق والخير والجمال التي تجسدها البيئة القروية الريفية الساذجة.. فأحداث القصة تدور في جوّ ريفي، يتميز بالبساطة والعفوية والصدق والإخلاص والقناعة، شبيه بالجو الذي نشأ فيه "المنفلوطي" بمصر، على خلاف حياة المدينة القائمة على الخداع والكذب والغش، والنفاق، حيث يتهافت الناس على جمع المال دون مراعاة أبسط المبادئ والقيم الخلقية.

والرواية تحاول التأكيد على أن الخلاف الحاد بين أحدهما يعتبر أن السعادة هي نتيجة نجاح المرء في التلاؤم والتكيف مع الظروف الواقعية التي تحيط به، والمفهوم الآخر يعتبر أن المال هو مفتاح السعادة أياً كانت الوسائل المستخدمة في الحصول عليه]]> 227 Alphonse Karr Mayar 4 3.90 1832
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]]> 59230799 عبَّر من خلالها عن رؤيته للحياة المعاصرة بكلِّ تشابكاتها. وقدم علاجاتٍ ناجحة، بأسلوب سلس ومشوق ومفعم بالمشاعر الصادقة.]]> 145 جاسم العمران 9921739468 Mayar 4 4.24
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]]> 24693639 حرية التفكير جزء لا يتجزأ من حرية التعبير: لذلك كانت هذه الرواية ضمن مجموعة الخيال العلمي، فهي بذلك ستكسب قبولاً أكثر كونها مُصنفة كمجرد أضغاث أفكار]]> 286 6030167618 Mayar 5 4.14 2015
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]]> 58725761 448 6038346023 Mayar 0 4.46 2021
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]]> 29244403
عندما سقطتُ وشجّ حاجبي،
عندما أجبرتني معلمة الرياضيات على الوقوف ووجهي للحائط
لأنني نسيت أن 7 × 6 = 42

عندما انكسرت درّاجتي ولم يشتروا لي أخرى
لكي لا أكسرها.
عندما انكسرت زجاجةُ روحي

عندما مات والداي
عندما لم أمت أنا
عندما كان العالم كثيراً وأنا وحدي

عندما نحر أخي دميتي لأن "الباربي" حرام
وشطب قناة "سبيس تون" لأن "البوكيمون" حرام.

عندما خلع صورة أمي وأبي من البرواز ودفنها في الدرج المكسور
كي لا تطرد الملائكة ..
عندما امتلأت شقوق الجدران بالشياطين

عندما أجبرتُ على دخول كلية البنات،
حفاظاً على عفافي.
عندما عرضني على صديقه للزواج،
حفاظاً على عفافي.

عندما مزّقتُ أغلفة كتبي لأحميها من الحرق.
عندما كتبتُ قصيدتي الأولى أسفل علبة الكلينيكس
وأنا أرتجفُ من الخوف

عندما شدّني من حجاب رأسي في أصبوحتي الشعرية الأولى ..
عندما صفعني أخيراً

قالوا لي جميعاً: تكبرين وتنسين.

المشكلة هي أنني كبرتُ ولم أنسَ،
كبرتُ ونسيتُ أن أنسى ..]]> 265 بثينة العيسى Mayar 0 3.62 2013
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]]> 58453545 نتجاوزها ونكمل سيرنا الذي يتخلله بعض المحطات ..
محطات نتوقف عندها مؤقتا للراحة والتزود بالطاقة كي نستمر ..
نستمر نحو وجهتنا ذات النهاية الحتمية ..
والمجهولة غالباً ..]]> 112 6038333606 Mayar 0 3.88 2021
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]]> 199816052 لهذا جاءت فكرة تأسيس نادي (ملاذ) للعلاج النفسي الجماعي.. حيث نستمع خلاله إلى كل من يرغب بالكشف عن أسراره وإزاحة الهموم من على كاهله.. وبأجواء هادئة آمنة نتخذ فيها كل الضمانات لنحمي المتحدث من كل وسائل عن الغدر والاستغلال.
وفي هذه الأمسية.. قررت 3 فتيات فتح صناديقهن السوداء والكشف عن أسرارهن الخطيرة.. فتيات دمَّرهن الوعي.. لأن الوعي يُفترض أن يأتي بالتدريج.. لكنه أتاهن دفعة واحدة بسبب ما مررن به من تجارب غريبة صادمة لن يحتملها قلب واحد.. بل قد يحتاج بسببها الإنسان عِدة قلوب لتجاوزها.. لذا فإننا نعدك بأنك ستعرف الكثير والكثير جدا لو قررت أن تكون معنا في هذه الأمسية الجديدة التي لا تنسى.. أمسية من نادي (ملاذ).]]> 230 عبدالوهاب السيد الرفاعي 9921737910 Mayar 0 to-read 3.85
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]]> 212129125 136 عبد الوهاب السيد الرفاعي Mayar 4 ١٨ قصة قصيرة غامضة ارشحها لمن يعاني من فتور قرائي او ماعنده وقت لكتاب كامل، فيقرا في فراغة ومتى ما اوتيحت له الفرصة
عموما بعض القصص لاقت اعجباني واندهاشي والبعض لا
اكثر قصص اعجبتني
في القطار / اليد / حفل زفاف]]> 3.76
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ختامية السنة
١٨ قصة قصيرة غامضة ارشحها لمن يعاني من فتور قرائي او ماعنده وقت لكتاب كامل، فيقرا في فراغة ومتى ما اوتيحت له الفرصة
عموما بعض القصص لاقت اعجباني واندهاشي والبعض لا
اكثر قصص اعجبتني
في القطار / اليد / حفل زفاف
]]> 9135994 358 علياء الكاظمي Mayar 3 وغير كذا احب اسلوبها في بناء القصة والشخصيات ]]> 3.68
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احب في روايات علياء الكاظمي ان مهما كان نوع وقوة العلاقة ف هي تورينا كيف ممكن الظروف والفهم الغلط والاختلاف بالتفكير والتفسير ممكن يفرق اي شي شخصين، دايما اتحمس اعرف كيف بتكون طريقة قطاعة هذي العلاقة واحاول افكر باسباب ممكن تكون منطقية او واضحة ولكن علياء دايما تورينا ان بالنهاية نفهم كل شي
وغير كذا احب اسلوبها في بناء القصة والشخصيات
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]]> 222062601 202 سعد عايد البدر Mayar 3 ولكن القصة طولت على ما حصل شي ]]> 3.56
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الغلاف جميل وجذاب
ولكن القصة طولت على ما حصل شي
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]]> 208463921 350 أحمد آل حمدان Mayar 1 3.95
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تطويل للاحداث وحلب لشهرة السلسلة
]]> 62636595 215 فهد البشاره 9921791060 Mayar 3 3.79
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]]> 50147955 122 نواف النومس Mayar 3 3.20
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]]> 198861392
ستتوالى الصفعات على خديه إذن، وسيظل يستقبلها برحابة صدر، دون أدنى شعور بالإهانة أو الغضب أو حتى الإشفاق على نفسه، بل إنه سيسعد كثيراً حين يكتشف أن اطراد هذا الأمر قد أكسبه موهبةً فريدة، وهي التنبؤ بوشوك تلقي صفعةٍ جديدة. غير أن الأمر بطبيعة الحال لن يتوقف عند حد الصفع، فكثير من الناس الذين سيقابلهم في حياته ستكون لديهم شهوة الضـرب متأججة حد الشبق، الأمر الذي سيجعل السيد سعيد عرضةً على الدوام إلى شتى أنواع الضـرب المبرح من لكمٍ على الوجه وركل البطن والمؤخرة وكل أعضاء جسده. وهنا فقط، سوف يبكي بحرقةٍ، لكن بكاء التألم وحسب.]]> 190 نذير الزعبي 9921775936 Mayar 2 4.00 2023
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]]> 15726721 248 علياء الكاظمي Mayar 4 3.63 2011
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name: Mayar
average rating: 3.63
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]]> 42589502
شروق الشمس، غروبها، آلاف الشموس والعوالم التي تشرق في سماء الليل. الكتب. البيرة الباردة. الهواء النقي. الأحصنة. الكتب القديمة المصفرة. القبلات الطويلة، العميقة، ذات المعنى. القبلات القصيرة، السريعة، المؤدبة. أحواض السباحة الباردة. المحيطات. البحار. الأنهار. وجبات الحانات. الأضواء وهي تخفت في صالات السينما...


إحدى أهم الأعراض الرئيسية للاكتئاب هي انعدام الأمل.. عدم القدرة على رؤية المستقبل.. يبدو لك النفق مظلمًا ومغلقًا من الجهتين وأنت محاصر بداخله.

هذا الكتاب هو الدليل الحي على أن الاكتئاب يكذب ويجعلك تؤمن بأشياء لا وجود لها، ولكن الاكتئاب بحد ذاته ليس كذبة.. وبالنسبة لمن حولك، يبدو الاكتئاب وكأنه مجرد وهم.

هنا تجربة مع الاكتئاب ورحلة شفاء منه يشاركنا بها الكاتب ليمنحك الأمل ورسالة تقول لا تقلق.. لست وحدك.. قاوم وحتمًا سترى الضوء في آخر النفق.]]> 216 Matt Haig Mayar 4 3.86 2015
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]]> 210842919
ا الوحيدُ أن نعيشَ الاطمئنان لا أكثر!







ولكن؛ أتدري ما العجب؟



أن يُلقى أحدَهم في جبٍّ لكي تنجوَ أنت!



وأن يُكتَب التاريخُ كلّه ويُسخّرُ من أجلك أنت.



وأن يكونَ أقسى ما مرَّ عليك، هو أسعدُ ما دُبِّر لك ...



وللهِ سرُّ التوقيت .. وسرُّ الدهشة.]]> 173 ابراهيم محمد 9921755153 Mayar 0 4.19
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> 61030999 309 صباح الشمري Mayar 4 استمتعت بقرائته ولكن وجود الصور خلاني استوعب انها قصص حقيقة وقضايا وضحايا
اكيد مو شي سلبي موجود الصور لاثبات القضايا ولكن الي مايتحمل هذا الشي ماارشح لع قراءة الكتاب]]> 4.02
author: صباح الشمري
name: Mayar
average rating: 4.02
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سرد جميل وواضح
استمتعت بقرائته ولكن وجود الصور خلاني استوعب انها قصص حقيقة وقضايا وضحايا
اكيد مو شي سلبي موجود الصور لاثبات القضايا ولكن الي مايتحمل هذا الشي ماارشح لع قراءة الكتاب
]]> 123208109 هذا ليس كتاب يحكى وقائع يومية لمحلل .. بل هو وصف دقيق لحياة وحوش قابلهم ، ووصل إلى نقطة فهم سلوكهم الاجرامى .. بتفاصيل لم يتم تجميلها أو تخفيضها ، هنا عقول المجرمين و عقل المحلل بين أيديكم]]> 222 محمد الشيباني 9921768506 Mayar 5 4.22
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]]> 123002582 228 osamah Sensei 9921795279 Mayar 4 لكن بعض القصص مهما حاولت اركز فيها اشعر ان فيها تفاصيل ناقصة او سردها يلخبط بحيث اني اضيع تفاصيل مهمة
الكاتب اكيد باقرا له اكثر بسبب اهتمامه بالجرائم اليابانية ولكن اتمنى ان احصل سرد منه افضل ]]> 3.86
author: osamah Sensei
name: Mayar
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الجرائم مشوقة وتورينا قد ايش اليابانيين فضيعين اذا طلع واحد منهم متخلف وفيه من الجنون
لكن بعض القصص مهما حاولت اركز فيها اشعر ان فيها تفاصيل ناقصة او سردها يلخبط بحيث اني اضيع تفاصيل مهمة
الكاتب اكيد باقرا له اكثر بسبب اهتمامه بالجرائم اليابانية ولكن اتمنى ان احصل سرد منه افضل
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رسالة من شخص مجهول وزهرة بنفسجية ... أشخاص محتجزون في ذلك القصر ولا سبيل للخروج ... ليلة طويلة يعيشها ( كايل سبينسر ) لمعرفة سبب احتجازه في ذلك القصر وحصوله على تلك الزهرة
ما هو سبب احتجازهم ؟
ما سر تلك الزهرة البنفسجية ؟
ومن هو ذلك الشخص المختبئ خلف ذلك القناع ؟]]> 250 فايز القراشي 9921807242 Mayar 3 4.33
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]]> 63922344 تُصدر دار مجرة للنشر والتوزيع كتاب "مجرة الرعب"، والذي يضم ٢٣ قصة
في أدب الرعب لنُخبة من الكُتاب العرب الشباب.

" افتح أضواء غرفتك أو أطفئها، اجلس وحيداً أو مع من تحبب، اقرأ هذا الكتاب
بسرعة أو بتأني.. كل هذا لايهم!
لأن من خلال هذا الكتاب شعور الرهبة و الخوف سيجد طريقة إليك لا محالة".]]> 311 Mayar 2 القصص الي اعجبتني بهذا الكتاب قليلة ]]> 2.72 2022
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القصص كانت ممتعة كبداية ولكن اغلبها تنقصها تفاصيل او تكملة او اُسس للقصة لتكون واضحه حتى ان كانت قصيرة
القصص الي اعجبتني بهذا الكتاب قليلة
]]> 62975772 209 عبدالوهاب السيد الرفاعي Mayar 5 3.88 2023
author: عبدالوهاب السيد الرفاعي
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ككل اصدارات هذي السلسلة ممتعة وجميلة ومشوقة
]]> 42768749 لكنهم في واقع الأمر أناس عاديين يعيشون بيننا .. بل ربما يكون أحدهم جارك .. أو قريبك .. أو حتى شقيقك وقد أخفى عنك أسراره السوداء
جرب قراءة هذه الرسائل .. وعش مع أصحابها تجاربهم الغريبة التي ستبحر بك في عالم من الغموض والإثارة والتشويق .. ولكن .. حاول أن تحافظ على ثبات أعصابك .. فهي ليست رسائل عادية .. إنها .. رسائل الخوف�ձ�> عبدالوهاب السيد الرفاعي Mayar 4 3.91
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]]> 196759924 وبين مفترس وضحية تهيم البهائم فيما بينها ..
لكن.. هل هناك فرق حقّاً؟
وهل نحن من يختار خطواتنا التي نخطوها؟
أم أن هناك من يمكر بنا؟ ..
ويقودنا حيث يشاء ..

أسامة المسلم]]> 144 6038403868 Mayar 0 to-read 3.63 2023
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]]> 199147056 والمفاضلة بينهما صعب في بعض الأحيان
لكن الخيط الرفيع المُرجح بينهما ..
هو بلا شك.. التضحية.]]> 248 Mayar 1 والاسماء الي انذكرت كثيرة جدا ومالها داعي واشوفها قالت المتعة البسيطة بالاحداث
للاسف مو اسلوب اسامة ولا طريقته وكأنه كتب هذا الكتاب مجامله لمتابعين تيك توك
الخماسية الاخيرة كانت غير موفقة ابدا ولا هي اسلوبه ]]> 3.23 2023
author: Osamah M. Al Muslim - أسامة المسلم
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average rating: 3.23
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رواية مملة ولا اعجبتني ابدا
والاسماء الي انذكرت كثيرة جدا ومالها داعي واشوفها قالت المتعة البسيطة بالاحداث
للاسف مو اسلوب اسامة ولا طريقته وكأنه كتب هذا الكتاب مجامله لمتابعين تيك توك
الخماسية الاخيرة كانت غير موفقة ابدا ولا هي اسلوبه
]]> 198812217 نحن نرى ونسمع غالباً ما نريد فقط ..
ولا نستسيغ سوى ما يتوافق مع أهوائنا ..
لذا فاستيعاب معظمنا محدود ..
والنتيجة الحتمية لهذا القصور ..
تبدد الهيمنة وفقدان السيطرة.

أسامة المسلم]]> 192 6039136898 Mayar 0 3.62 2023
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]]> 201744922 انتهاز الفرص .. غريزة .. 208 Mayar 2 ]]> 3.74 2023
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نوعا ما الرواية مختلفة عن المواضيع الي يتكلم عنها اسامة واسلوبها ابسط من كتاباته المعتادة ومختلف ما كأنها مخيلة اسامة

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أسامة المسلم]]> 160 Mayar 0 3.61 2023
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]]> 43682790 136 محمد سلمان كامل 6038263373 Mayar 3 نوعا ما احداثها قليلة وبطيئة و تخليك ودك تعرف وش صار لكن ماكان فيه اجابات لاشياء كثير
الرواية خلتني احس بهدوء ووحدة من كثر الهدوء بالاحداث
]]> 3.29 2019
author: محمد سلمان كامل
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average rating: 3.29
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rating: 3
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رواية خفيفة وقصيرة
نوعا ما احداثها قليلة وبطيئة و تخليك ودك تعرف وش صار لكن ماكان فيه اجابات لاشياء كثير
الرواية خلتني احس بهدوء ووحدة من كثر الهدوء بالاحداث

]]> 55196813
Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.

But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it's too late?

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.]]> 304 Nita Prose 0593356152 Mayar 0 to-read 3.71 2022
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]]> 61237136
Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed on all sides.

In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, he explores how lessons of toxic masculinity were drilled into his body and the way the cycle of violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Even in the depths of isolation, there were unexpected moments of joy carved out, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of kinship he caught on his journey to becoming a Pokémon master. SINK follows Thomas's coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in—with his immediate peers, turbulent family, or the world—and how good it feels to build community, love, and salvation on your own terms.]]> 256 Joseph Earl Thomas 1538706172 Mayar 0 to-read 3.66 2023
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]]> 34466963 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318.

Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity. He also provides actionable steps towards getting a better night's sleep every night.]]> 368 Matthew Walker Mayar 0 to-read 4.37 2017
author: Matthew Walker
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]]> 3503947 لقد عزَلَ الأغنياء أنفسهم في (يوتوبيا) الساحل الشمالي تحت حراسة المارينز الأمريكيين، يتعاطون المخدرات ويمارسون المتع المحرمة إلى أقصاها، بينما ينسحق الفقراء خارجها ينهش بعضهم لحم بعض من أجل العيش، دونما كهرباء أو صرف صحي أو رعاية طبية من أي نوع. ولكن حين يتسلل الراوي وصديقته (جرمينال) خارج (يوتوبيا) بدافع الملل وبحثا عن (صيد بشري)
مناسب يحدث ما يهدد الوضع المستقر بالانفجار.

فيما يشبه هول علامات يوم القيامة، تدق هذه الرواية المثيرة ناقوس الخطر، تكاد تشك إذ تنهيها أهي بالفعل رواية متخيلة، أم إن كاتبها تسلل من المستقبل القريب لينقل لك هوله بحياد مذهل؟]]> 192 أحمد خالد توفيق 9773513912 Mayar 0 to-read 3.94 2009
author: أحمد خالد توفيق
name: Mayar
average rating: 3.94
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]]> 28695606
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?

FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.]]> 272 Mike Bockoven 1510709444 Mayar 0 to-read 3.84 2016
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]]> 62876824
خوف�ձ�> 320 Mayar 0 4.11 2022
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]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]> 213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 Mayar 0 3.66 2015
author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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]]> 52578297
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?]]> 288 Matt Haig 0525559477 Mayar 0 3.96 2020
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]]> 194746 No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world �� suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, �� but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.

Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston]]> 176 Osamu Dazai Mayar 0 3.99 1948
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]]> 39999
Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one.]]> 224 John Boyne 0385751079 Mayar 0 4.17 2006
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]]> 25351913 السن: ستة وستون عاماً.
المهنة: أستاذ أمراض الدم (سابقاً) بعد لا بأس به من الجامعات في مصر وأوروبا وأمريكا.
الحالة الإجتماعية: أعزب.
لقد عشت حياة حافلة أنقب فيها في كل مكان عن أساطير الحياة التي ورثناها عن أجدادنا وأثارت رعبنا كما أثارت رعبهم .. ، واجهت الكونت (دراكيولا) و(الزومبي) ودخلت قلعة د.(فرانكنشتاين) وتعرضت للعنة الفراعنة ولعبت بأوراق التاروت وغير ذلك الكثير .. وقبل أن يحين الأجل أو يقضي تصلب شرايين المخ علي ذاكرتي آثرت أن أكتب حكاياتي كي يعرف الشباب أي محارب للخرافات والخزعبلات كنته في حياتي.]]> أحمد خالد توفيق Mayar 0 to-read 4.66
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]]> 20801166 something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. Their creative writing teacher pushes them together. The baristas at Starbucks watch their relationship like a TV show. Their bus driver tells his wife about them. The waitress at the diner automatically seats them together. Even the squirrel who lives on the college green believes in their relationship.

Surely Gabe and Lea will figure out that they are meant to be together....
]]> 272 Sandy Hall 1250061776 Mayar 0 3.57 2014
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]]> 49127387 #1 internationally bestselling author Thomas Erikson shows readers how to identify and avoid the psychopaths around them.

Charming, charismatic, and delightful or manipulative, self-serving, and cunning? Psychopaths are both and that’s exactly what makes them dangerous. Bestselling author of the international phenomenon Surrounded by Idiots, Thomas Erikson reveals how to identify the psychopaths in your life and combat their efforts to control and manipulate.

Using the same simple four-color system of behavior classification that made Surrounded by Idiots so popular, Surrounded by Psychopaths teaches readers how to deal with psychopaths in their lives by becoming aware of their own behavior and their weaknesses. Vivid example stories illustrate ways that psychopaths can take advantage of various behavior types, helping readers identify their own weaknesses and be proactive about protecting themselves. Erikson outlines some of the most common forms of manipulation used by psychopaths—and others—to influence those around them. Since manipulation can often be a feature of ordinary, non-psychopathic relationships, the book also includes practical methods and techniques to help readers confront controlling people and rehabilitate negative relationships into mutually respectful ones.

By understanding your behavior as well as the tendencies and strategies of psychopaths, Surrounded by Psychopaths will teach you to protect yourself from manipulative influence in your workplace, social life, and family.]]> 272 Thomas Erikson 1250763886 Mayar 0 3.59 2017
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]]> 68783
Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.]]> 169 Susanna Kaysen 0679746048 Mayar 0 3.95 1993
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]]> 3153116 400 محمد حسن علوان Mayar 0 3.53 2002
author: محمد حسن علوان
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]]> 10429045 I have a curse
I have a gift

I am a monster
I'm more than human

My touch is lethal
My touch is power

I am their weapon
I will fight back

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.]]> 338 Tahereh Mafi 0062085484 Mayar 0 3.86 2011
author: Tahereh Mafi
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> 33385229
Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.]]> 389 Adam Silvera 0062457799 Mayar 0 3.76 2017
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name: Mayar
average rating: 3.76
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it was boring at the end, then a bit exciting, and again it was boring. I spent more than a month trying to finish it.
]]> 41940236 In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town.

After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town: Featherbank.

But Featherbank has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night.

Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to Frank Carter's crimes, reigniting old rumors that he preyed with an accomplice. Now, detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before it is too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his great foe in prison: The Whisper Man. And then Jake begins acting strangely. He hears a whispering at his window.]]> 355 Alex North 1250317991 Mayar 0 to-read 4.02 2019
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]]> 36430011
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance�� meeting.

As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.

A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation.]]> 464 Caroline Kepnes 1501195433 Mayar 0 to-read 4.03 2014
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]]> 58468990 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide��

Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up �� to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? �� he’s not there.

The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.

The socialite �� The nice guy �� The alcoholic �� The girl on the verge �� The concierge

Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling.]]> 360 Lucy Foley 0063003058 Mayar 0 to-read 3.62 2022
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]]> 57795665
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.

Until the day the police arrived at their front door.

Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way.

Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.

Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she’s not a killer like her father. The police can’t pin anything on her.

As long as they don’t look in her basement.]]> 313 Freida McFadden Mayar 0 to-read 4.00 2021
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]]> 96884 297 Jonathan Haidt 0465028020 Mayar 0 to-read 4.08 2006
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]]> 37570546 From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.]]> 415 Lori Gottlieb 1328662055 Mayar 0 to-read 4.36 2019
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]]> 42080142
What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.

Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant.

It was everything.

She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.

Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, The Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.]]> 337 Ruth Ware 1501188771 Mayar 0 to-read 3.91 2019
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]]> 40440
The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter's story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission.

As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire.

Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling but remains suspicious of the author's sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.

The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.]]> 406 Diane Setterfield 0743298020 Mayar 0 to-read 3.96 2006
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]]> 52439531
To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.]]> 386 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 1368052401 Mayar 0 to-read 4.13 2020
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]]> 53288434 A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them - setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.

Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.
Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register.

One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose - selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register.

In present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders�� that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate - and not everyone will survive.]]> 301 Sarah Penner 0778311015 Mayar 0 to-read 3.72 2021
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]]> 54733883 A gripping and emotional novel that will leave you wondering about the neighbors next door...

On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor's kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night. But the Fleming family doesn't have a child that age, and even if they did, why would she be doing housework at this late hour?

It would be easy for Sharon to just let this go, but when eighteen-year-old Niki, a former foster child, comes to live with Sharon, she notices suspicious activity at the Flemings' house as well. When calling social services doesn't result in swift action, the two decide to investigate on their own.]]> 343 Karen McQuestion Mayar 0 to-read 4.16 2020
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]]> 17245 You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.]]> 488 Bram Stoker 0393970124 Mayar 0 to-read 4.02 1897
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]]> 830502
It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.]]> 1184 Stephen King 0450411435 Mayar 0 to-read 4.28 1986
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]]> 13158800 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.

M. L. Stedman's mesmerizing, beautifully written debut novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel's decision to keep this "gift from God." And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another's tragic loss.]]> 362 M.L. Stedman 1451681739 Mayar 0 to-read 4.02 2012
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]]> 128029
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 Mayar 0 to-read 4.44 2007
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]]> 34066798 The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.]]> 462 Amor Towles Mayar 0 to-read 4.28 2016
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]]> 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]> 592 Markus Zusak Mayar 0 to-read 4.38 2005
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]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Mayar 0 to-read 4.26 2001
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]]> 51933429
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.

But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?]]> 330 Lucy Foley Mayar 0 to-read 3.64 2020
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]]> 50659466
At least, he’s not a beast all the time.

As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.]]> 419 Sarah J. Maas 1635575559 Mayar 0 to-read 4.22 2015
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]]> 28187 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.]]> 377 Rick Riordan 0786838655 Mayar 0 to-read 4.31 2005
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]]> 3 309 J.K. Rowling 0439554934 Mayar 0 to-read 4.47 1997
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]]> 36124936
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.]]> 561 Stephen King 1501180983 Mayar 0 to-read 3.98 2018
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]]> 4894
Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are "Littlepeople" �� beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.

"Cheese" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life �� whether it's a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind.

And the "Maze" is where you look for what you want �� the organisation you work in or the family or community you live in.

In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually, one of them deals with it successfully, and writes what he has learned from his experience on the Maze walls.

When you come to see "The Handwriting on the Wall," you can discover for yourself how to deal with change, so that you can enjoy less stress and more success (however you define it) in your work and in your life.

Written for all ages, the story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.]]> 98 Spencer Johnson 0091883768 Mayar 0 to-read 3.88 1999
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]]> 40121378 Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:
- Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
- Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;
- Design your environment to make success easier;
- Get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.]]> 319 James Clear Mayar 0 to-read 4.34 2018
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