Leia's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:44:45 -0700 60 Leia's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Kris 13618478
Karin Boye tar sin egen ungdomskris som exempel nÀr hon lyfter fram kÀrleken som den starkaste kraften i livets tjÀnst. Genom att bejaka sitt begÀr överskrider Malin den föreskrivna livsrollen och börjar en upptÀcksresa in i det okÀnda.]]> 214 Karin Boye 9174292382 Leia 0 to-read 3.53 1934 Kris
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]]> Dark Matter 34002973 A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy.

"Are you happy with your life?"

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend."

In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.]]> 359 Blake Crouch 1101904240 Leia 0 to-read 4.21 2016 Dark Matter
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]]> Belladonna (Belladonna, #1) 60652911
Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being � and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering and gloomy.

Its patriarch mourns his late wife through wild parties, while his son grapples for control of the family’s waning reputation and his daughter suffers from a mysterious illness. But when their mother’s restless spirit appears claiming she was poisoned, Signa realizes that the family she depends on could be in grave danger, and enlists the help of a surly stable boy to hunt down the killer.

Signa’s best chance of uncovering the murderer, though, is an alliance with Death himself, a fascinating, dangerous shadow who has never been far from her side. Though he’s made her life a living hell, Death shows Signa that their growing connection may be more powerful â€� and more irresistible â€� than she ever dared imagine.]]> 416 Adalyn Grace Leia 0 to-read 3.91 2022 Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
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]]> Delta of Venus 567611 Delta of Venus, AnaĂŻs Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.]]> 302 AnaĂŻs Nin 0671742493 Leia 0 to-read 3.50 1977 Delta of Venus
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]]> Little Birds 1255304 159 AnaĂŻs Nin 0671680110 Leia 0 to-read 3.57 1979 Little Birds
author: AnaĂŻs Nin
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average rating: 3.57
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]]> <![CDATA[A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)]]> 248665 166 AnaĂŻs Nin 0671871390 Leia 0 to-read 3.75 1954 A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
author: AnaĂŻs Nin
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average rating: 3.75
book published: 1954
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]]> <![CDATA[Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaĂŻs Nin, 1931-1932]]> 11038 Henry and June spans a single year in Nin's life when she discovers love and torment in one insatiable couple. From late 1931 to the end of 1932, Nin falls in love with Henry Miller's writing and his wife June's striking beauty. When June leaves Paris for New York, Henry and AnaĂŻs begin a fiery affair that liberates her sexually and morally, but also undermines her marriage and eventually leads her into psychoanalysis. As she grapples with her own conscience, a single question dominates her thoughts: What will happen when June returns to Paris? An intimate account of one woman's sexual awakening, Henry and June exposes the pain and pleasure felt by a single person trapped between two loves.]]> 274 AnaĂŻs Nin 015640057X Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.97 1986 Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaĂŻs Nin, 1931-1932
author: AnaĂŻs Nin
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]]> <![CDATA[Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1)]]> 1499952 Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen.]]> 249 Jean Webster Leia 0 to-read 4.12 1912 Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1)
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]]> All About Love: New Visions 218042 “The word “loveâ€� is most often defined as a noun, yetâ€� we would all love better if we used it as a verb,â€� writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.

As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question “What is love?â€�, her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the â€�100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.â€� All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.

Librarian note: There is an alternate cover edition of this book here.]]> 238 bell hooks 0060959479 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.89 1999 All About Love: New Visions
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]]> The Jungle Books 902433 The stories of the man-cub Mowgli's boyhood in the jungle have an imaginative power that has appealed to generations of children and adults.

Brought up by wolves among the unforgettable characters of the jungle, Bagheera the black panther, and Baloo the bear who teaches him the law of the jungle, Mowgli grows up to become the Master of the Jungle. He can speak the jungle languages and understand their complex social structure, from the bees' nests to the monkey folk and the ferocity of the tiger Shere Khan.

Ranging in tone from the simple heroism of 'Rikki-tikki-tavi' to the dark comedy of 'The Undertakers' and the poignancy of Mowgli's return to his own kind in 'The Spring Running', the stories in The Jungle Books are rich in vivid description and superb characterization. They are among the finest work of a master storyteller.]]> 326 Rudyard Kipling 0140621040 Leia 0 to-read 3.85 1895 The Jungle Books
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[The Second Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #2)]]> 128518 142 Rudyard Kipling 140694632X Leia 0 to-read 3.74 1895 The Second Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #2)
author: Rudyard Kipling
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> <![CDATA[Funeral Games (Alexander the Great, #3)]]> 24626145 NY Review of Books
After Alexander's death in 323 BCE his only direct heirs were two unborn sons & a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives & generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed & were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams.]]> 314 Mary Renault 1844089592 Leia 0 to-read 4.12 1981 Funeral Games (Alexander the Great, #3)
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1981
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]]> <![CDATA[The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)]]> 24626146 Book 2 of 3: The Novels of Alexander the Great

'Renault's masterpiece. One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERS

In the second novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend.

The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexander's mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.

'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us' --Hilary Mantel

'The Alexander Trilogy stands as one of the most important works of fiction in the 20th century . . . it represents the pinnacle of [Renault's] career . . . Renault's skill is in immersing us in their world, drawing us into its strangeness, its violence and beauty. It's a literary conjuring trick like all historical fiction - it can only ever be an approximation of the truth. But in Renault's hands, the trick is so convincing and passionately conjured. Nowhere is this more evident than in The Persian Boy . . . Bagoas is a brilliant narrator. Rendered unreliable by his passion, he is always believable and sympathetic . . . His Persian background allows him to see the king and his Macedonians through the questioning eyes of an alien' -- Antonia Senior, The Times]]> 476 Mary Renault 1844089584 Leia 0 to-read 4.32 1972 The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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]]> World Ain't Ready 28263582 Enjolras presses his lips together. He already looks pained, and Grantaire hasn't even opened his mouth yet. That's got to be a record, even for them.

"I need a favor," he says at last.

"With what?" says Grantaire. "Ooh, are you forming a cult? Can I join? I'd be awesome at cults, I just know it." He ticks off his qualifications on his fingers. "I love chanting, I look great in robes�"

(High school AU. Grantaire the disaffected stoner is pulled into a cause bigger than himself. Or: in which there are pretend boyfriends for great justice.)
Words: 185796 complete]]> 395 idiopathicsmile Leia 0 to-read 4.78 World Ain't Ready
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]]> Pulp 49050409
Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word--tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?

One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence, PULP is unlike anything award-winning BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS have ever done before. This celebration of pulp fiction set in a world on the brink is another must-have hardcover from one of comics' most acclaimed teams.
]]> 72 Ed Brubaker 1534316442 Leia 0 to-read 4.32 2020 Pulp
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]]> True Grit 13588324 268 Charles Portis 146830125X Leia 0 to-read 4.16 1968 True Grit
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]]> Troilus and Cressida 34745685
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 192 William Shakespeare 0143131753 Leia 0 to-read, shakespeare 3.47 1601 Troilus and Cressida
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]]> The Song of Achilles 57740853 356 Madeline Miller Leia 0 currently-reading 4.24 2011 The Song of Achilles
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]]> Crime and Punishment 21045225 'Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces? . . . Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood . . .axe in hand? . . . Lord, will I really?'

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption.

Oliver Ready's new translation of Dostoevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before.]]> 702 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0141192801 Leia 0 to-read, dostoyevsky 4.43 1866 Crime and Punishment
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]]> <![CDATA[The Handmaid's Tale (Handmaid's Tale, #1)]]> 50885244 'The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story'
- ANGELA CARTER

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire � neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first-century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.]]> 320 Margaret Atwood 0099740915 Leia 0 to-read 4.15 1985 The Handmaid's Tale (Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski]]> 2472910 336 Klaus Kinski 0747530998 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.94 1975 Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski
author: Klaus Kinski
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average rating: 3.94
book published: 1975
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]]> The Virginian 1425917 The Virginian (otherwise titled The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains) is a pioneering 1902 novel set in the Wild West by the American author Owen Wister. Describing the life of the foreman of the Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming, it was the first true western written, aside from the tiny dime novels. It paved the way for many more westerns by famous authors such as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others.

Owen Wister's powerful story of the tall, silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil has become an enduring part of American mythology. Set in Wyoming Terriotry, The Virginian depics the loneliness and challenge of an unknown land where the whistle of a freight train sounds across great miles of silence, where easy camaraderie—and sudden violence—are found around the campfire, and where the rough honesty of "frontier justice" is just beginning to impose a sense of society on an unruly populace. For Wister, the West represented a territory of adventure that tested the worth of a man. His hero, as John Seelye writes in his Introduction, has his roots in the historical romances of Sir Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper; he is a man who lives by the classic code of chivalry, ruled by quiet courage and deeply felt honor.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 416 Owen Wister 0140390650 Leia 0 to-read 3.66 1902 The Virginian
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average rating: 3.66
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]]> Shane 30231142 160 Jack Schaefer 1409165663 Leia 0 to-read 4.19 1949 Shane
author: Jack Schaefer
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1949
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]]> London Triptych 16057342 269 Jonathan Kemp 155152502X Leia 0 to-read 3.82 2010 London Triptych
author: Jonathan Kemp
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 2010
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]]> The Mysterious Rider 121331 164 Zane Grey 1406834734 Leia 0 to-read 3.77 1919 The Mysterious Rider
author: Zane Grey
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average rating: 3.77
book published: 1919
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]]> The Lone Star Ranger 121271
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.]]> 268 Zane Grey 1426406843 Leia 0 to-read 3.79 1914 The Lone Star Ranger
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)]]> 90160 320 Zane Grey 0812966120 Leia 0 to-read 3.67 1912 Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> The Jungle 41681
When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary.

The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original uncensored edition of 1905.
It contains the full 36 chapters as originally published, rather than the 31 of the expurgated edition.

A new foreword describes the discovery in the 1980s of the original edition and its subsequent suppression, and a new introduction places the novel in historical context by explaining the pattern of censorship in the shorter commercial edition.]]> 335 Upton Sinclair 1884365302 Leia 0 to-read 3.77 1906 The Jungle
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> <![CDATA[The Life and Adventures of JoaquĂ­n Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (Penguin Classics)]]> 36906102 An adventure tale about Mexicans rising up against US rule in California

An action packed blend of folk tale, romance, epic and myth, The Life and Adventures of JoaquĂ­n Murieta tells the story of the Gold Rush-era bandit JoaquĂ­n Murieta, whose efforts to find fortune and happiness are thwarted by white settlers who murder his family and drive him off his land. In retaliation, Murieta organizes a band of more than 2000 outlaws who take revenge by murdering, stealing horses and robbing miners, all with the ultimate goal of reconquering California.]]> 208 John Rollin Ridge 0143132652 Leia 0 to-read 3.16 1854 The Life and Adventures of JoaquĂ­n Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (Penguin Classics)
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average rating: 3.16
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]]> The Power of the Dog 128073
Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business.

Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance; George has a gentle, loving soul. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector.

From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip.


WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULX]]> 293 Thomas Savage 0316610895 Leia 0 to-read 4.16 1967 The Power of the Dog
author: Thomas Savage
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 1967
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]]> The Secret History 70897
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.]]> 629 Donna Tartt 0140167773 Leia 5 All in all, a clever story about pretentious people doing what they do for the aesthetic.

"Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs."

"I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive."

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."

"Sometimes, when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over."

"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."

"Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not."]]> 4.25 1992 The Secret History
author: Donna Tartt
name: Leia
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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I already knew before going in that I was going to love The Secret History, and that it was going to become a new favourite. It is currently one of my most annotated books, with well over 140 tabs and even more underlinings. The writing is excellent, the plot is intriguing. The story has so much depth and there's a lot to discuss and theorise about, especially concerning how much of what Richard states is true to how the people in his life were, and true to what actually went down. I noticed so much foreshadowing my second time around. The book gets plus points for also being humourous at times.
All in all, a clever story about pretentious people doing what they do for the aesthetic.

"Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs."

"I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive."

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."

"Sometimes, when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over."

"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."

"Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not."
]]> The Rum Diary 18864 The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible.]]> 224 Hunter S. Thompson 0684856476 Leia 0 to-read 3.86 1998 The Rum Diary
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream]]> 7745 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.]]> 204 Hunter S. Thompson 0679785892 Leia 0 to-read 4.08 1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
author: Hunter S. Thompson
name: Leia
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1971
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]]> The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1) 898839
But a champion of freedom rides the highways. His identity hidden behind a mask, the laughing outlaw Zorro defies the tyrant's might. A deadly marksman and a demon swordsman, his flashing blade leaves behind . . .

First published in 1919, The Mark of Zorro has inspired countless films and television adventures. Now read how the legend began.
]]> 265 Johnston McCulley 0812540077 Leia 0 to-read 3.99 1919 The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir]]> 48572674 Legendary actor Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography.

Val Kilmer has played many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade film career. A table-dancing Cold War agent in Top Secret! A troublemaking science prodigy in Real Genius. A brash fighter pilot in Top Gun. A swashbuckling knight in Willow. A lovelorn bank robber in Heat. A charming master of disguise in The Saint. A wise-cracking detective in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Of course, Batman, Jim Morrison and the sharp-shooting Doc Holliday.

But who is the real Val Kilmer? With I’m Your Huckleberry—published ahead of next summer’s highly anticipated sequel Top Gun: Maverick, in which Kilmer returns to the big screen as Tom “Icemanâ€� Kazansky—the enigmatic actor at last steps out of character and reveals his true self.

In this uniquely assembled memoir—featuring vivid prose, snippets of poetry and rarely-seen photos—Kilmer reflects on his acclaimed career, including becoming the youngest actor ever admitted to the Juilliard School’s famed drama department, determinedly campaigning to win the lead part in The Doors, and realizing a years-long dream of performing a one-man show as his hero Mark Twain. He shares candid stories of working with screen legends Marlon Brando, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr. and Robert De Niro, and recounts high-profile romances with Cher, Cindy Crawford, Daryl Hannah, and former wife Joanne Whalley. He chronicles his spiritual journey and lifelong belief in Christian Science, and describes travels to far-flung locales such as a scarcely inhabited island in the Indian Ocean where he suffered from delirium and was cared for by the resident tribe. And he reveals details of his recent throat cancer diagnosis and recovery—about which he has disclosed little until now.

While containing plenty of tantalizing celebrity anecdotes, I’m Your Huckleberry—taken from the famous line Kilmer delivers as Holliday in Tombstone—is ultimately a singularly written and deeply moving reflection on mortality and the mysteries of life.]]> 320 Val Kilmer 1982144890 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.60 2020 I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir
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]]> Drakskeppet 13066862
Petite, 10 Är, blir bortrövad av vikingar och tvingas följa med till Norden. DÀr blir hon sÄld som trÀl, men vad hÀnder sedan? Ska hon bli fri? Ska hon nÄgonsin fÄ trÀffa sin egen familj igen?]]> 338 Maj Bylock 9174512404 Leia 0 to-read 3.77 1997 Drakskeppet
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name: Leia
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1997
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]]> ±áĂ€łæ±è°ùŽÇ±č±đłÙ 5176276
NĂ€r en man finner henne och för henne till lĂ€kekvinnan Ylva kan hon inte ens minnas sitt namn. Ylva Ă€r en fin mĂ€nniska och tar vĂ€l hand om Annelie. Men pĂ„ grund av sina förmĂ„gor att bota sjuka sĂ„ Ă€r det bara en tidsfrĂ„ga innan kvinnan anklagas för att vara hĂ€xa.]]> 124 Maj Bylock 9129591694 Leia 0 to-read 3.71 1989 ±áĂ€łæ±è°ùŽÇ±č±đłÙ
author: Maj Bylock
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average rating: 3.71
book published: 1989
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]]> Roxana 332152 356 Daniel Defoe 0192834592 Leia 0 to-read 3.46 1724 Roxana
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]]> <![CDATA[Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death]]> 59598
Life After Life introduced us to concepts—including the bright light, the tunnel, the presence of loved ones waiting on the other side—that have become cultural memes and have shaped countless readers notions about the end life and the meaning of death.]]> 175 Raymond A. Moody Jr. 0062517392 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 4.11 1975 Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death
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]]> <![CDATA[The Confessions of Saint Augustine]]> 1683 290 Augustine of Hippo 1591094003 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.95 400 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
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]]> <![CDATA[The Night of the Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics â€� Crime & Espionage)]]> 213653486 256 Davis Grubb 0241640423 Leia 0 to-read 4.20 1953 The Night of the Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)
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]]> East (East, #1) 161887 Rose has always been different.

Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever.

So when an enormous white bear shows up one cold autumn evening and asks teenage Rose to come away with it--in exchange for health and prosperity for her ailing family--she readily agrees.

Rose travels on the bear's broad back to a distant and empty castle, where she is nightly joined by a mysterious stranger. In discovering his identity, she loses her heart-- and finds her purpose--and realizes her journey has only just begun.

]]> 507 Edith Pattou 0152052216 Leia 0 to-read 4.14 2003 East (East, #1)
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]]> Blood Meridian 60577102 The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.

Set in the anarchic world opened up by America’s westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man.

hrough the hostile landscape of the Texas–Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians â€� collecting scalps as their bloody trophies â€� they too are stalked as prey.

Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful, it is established as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.]]> 355 Cormac McCarthy 1529077168 Leia 5
"You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it."

"The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full."

"When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."

"The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools."

"The way of the world is to bloom and flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes. This you see here, these ruins wondered at by tribes of savages, do you not think that this will be again? Aye. And again. With other people, with other sons."

"Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

"...war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god."

"He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."]]> 4.00 1985 Blood Meridian
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"Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarious to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay."

"You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it."

"The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full."

"When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."

"The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools."

"The way of the world is to bloom and flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes. This you see here, these ruins wondered at by tribes of savages, do you not think that this will be again? Aye. And again. With other people, with other sons."

"Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

"...war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god."

"He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."
]]> All the Young Dudes 56324096 1799 MsKingBean89 Leia 0 currently-reading 4.77 2018 All the Young Dudes
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]]> <![CDATA[Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison]]> 988758 David Rothman's Willowbrook's Wars, Allen M. Hornblum releases devastating stories from within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison.
For more than two decades, from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, inmates were used, in exchange for a few dollars, as guinea pigs in a host of medical experiments. An array of doctors, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania and prison officials, established Holmesburg as a laboratory testing ground.
Hundreds of prisoners were used to test products from facial creams to far more hazardous, even potentially lethal, substances such chemical warfare agents. Based on in-depth interviews with dozens of prisoners as well as the doctors and prison officials who performed or enforced these experimental tests, Hornblum paints a disturbing portrait of abuse, moral indifference, and greed.
Central to this account are the millions of dollars many of America's leading drug and consumer goodscompanies made available for the all too eager doctors seeking fame and fortune through their medical experiments.
Acres of Skin is rigorously researched and shocking in its depiction of men treated as laboratory animals.]]> 334 Allen M. Hornblum 0415923360 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.86 1998 Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
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]]> <![CDATA[Don't Shoot, It's Only Me: Bob Hope's Comedy History of the United States]]> 1831999 478 Bob Hope 1560540982 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 4.02 1990 Don't Shoot, It's Only Me: Bob Hope's Comedy History of the United States
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]]> After The Revolution 59645604
Our three protagonists include Manny, a fixer that shuttles journalists in and out of war zones and provides footage for outside news agencies. Sasha is a teenage woman that joins the Heavenly Kingdom before she discovers the ugly truths behind their movement. Finally, we have Roland: A US Army vet kitted out with cyberware (including blood that heals major trauma wounds and a brain that can handle enough LSD to kill an elephant), tormented by broken memories, and 12,000 career kills under his belt. In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fueled by hedonistic excess.

This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarized domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.]]> 380 Robert Evans 1849354626 Leia 0 to-read 4.30 2022 After The Revolution
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]]> The Waste Land 34080 The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is often regarded as T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, as well as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.

The work, divided in 5 sections, juxtaposes the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, with a snapshot of early twentieth-century British society. In contemporary times, it is often read published within The Waste Land and Other Poems and has come to be Eliot's most popular poem.

T.S. Elliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry."In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."]]> 288 T.S. Eliot 0393974995 Leia 0 to-read 4.11 1922 The Waste Land
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]]> Atonement 6867
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.]]> 351 Ian McEwan 038572179X Leia 0 to-read 3.94 2001 Atonement
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]]> Midwives 5166
As recounted by Sibyl's precocious fourteen-year-old daughter, Connie, the ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt except for the fact that all its participants are acting from the highest motives—and the defendant increasingly appears to be guilty. As Sibyl Danforth faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.]]> 384 Chris Bohjalian Leia 0 to-read 3.99 1997 Midwives
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]]> The Jackal's Mistress 214537772 In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as Hour of the Witch and The Sandcastle Girls.

    Virginia, 1864—Libby Steadman’s husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him in the night, fearing him dead in a Union prison camp, her days are spent running a gristmill with her teenage niece, a hired hand, and his wife, all the grain they can produce requisitioned by the Confederate Army. It’s an uneasy life in the Shenandoah Valley, the territory frequently changing hands, control swinging back and forth like a pendulum between North and South, and Libby awakens every morning expecting to see her land a battlefield. 
    And then she finds a gravely injured Union officer left for dead in a neighbor’s house, the bones of his hand and leg shattered. Captain Jonathan Weybridge of the Vermont Brigade is her enemy â€� but he’s also a human being, and Libby must make a terrible Does she leave him to die alone? Or does she risk treason and try to nurse him back to health? And if she succeeds, does she try to secretly bring him across Union lines, where she might negotiate a trade for news of her own husband? 
    A vivid and sweeping story of two people navigating the boundaries of love and humanity in a landscape of brutal violence, The Jackal’s Mistress is a heart-stopping new novel, based on a largely unknown piece of American history, from one of our greatest storytellers.]]> 336 Chris Bohjalian 0385547641 Leia 0 to-read 4.14 2025 The Jackal's Mistress
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]]> Excavation 21983147
In Excavation: A Memoir, the black and white of the standard victim/perpetrator stereotype gives way to unsettling grays. The present-day narrator reflects on the girl she once was, as well as the teacher and parent she has become. It's a beautifully written and powerful story of a woman reclaiming her whole heart.]]> 235 Wendy C. Ortiz 1892061708 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.75 2014 Excavation
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]]> Outer Dark 40471 256 Cormac McCarthy 0330314920 Leia 0 to-read, mccarthy 3.88 1968 Outer Dark
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]]> That’s the Art of Getting By 57956479
“Remus...â€� Dumbledore is gentle. Remus hates when he has that tone. Hates that he knows it will hurt. “There is no one else left.â€�

A bitter laugh escapes him. “So you’ll curse the poor thing with a werewolf for a guardian?”]]> 171 Sarewolf Leia 0 to-read 4.36 2021 That’s the Art of Getting By
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]]> Suttree 211987161
Conjuring James Joyce's Ulysses, Suttree wanders the river with a detachment and wry humour, encountering a broad cast of humanity as he does � even as dereliction and destitution threaten the last of his remaining dignity.]]> 568 Cormac McCarthy 1035039273 Leia 0 to-read, mccarthy 4.36 1979 Suttree
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]]> <![CDATA[Child of God (Picador Collection)]]> 214897386 192 Cormac McCarthy Leia 0 to-read, mccarthy 3.67 1973 Child of God (Picador Collection)
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)]]> 62347847 All the Pretty Horses is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.]]> 310 Cormac McCarthy 1035003759 Leia 0 to-read, mccarthy 4.18 1992 All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> The Road 118882358 The Road is the story of a remarkable and profoundly moving journey, and an exemplar of post-apocalyptic writing.]]> 307 Cormac McCarthy 1035003791 Leia 0 mccarthy, to-read 4.05 2006 The Road
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]]> No Country for Old Men 62900908
And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?]]> 320 Cormac McCarthy 1035003783 Leia 0 to-read, mccarthy 4.10 2005 No Country for Old Men
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)]]> 13129869
Denis Nayland Smith pursues his quarry across continents and through the back alleys of London. As victim after victim disappears at the hands of the Devil Doctor, Smith must unravel his murderous plot before it is too late. 

Includes a special feature by Leslie S. Kilnger]]> 293 Sax Rohmer 0857686038 Leia 0 to-read 3.36 1913 The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
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average rating: 3.36
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]]> The Art of Seduction 20995 Robert Greene's bold, elegant, and ingenious manual of modern manipulation, The 48 Laws of Power. Now Greene has once again mined history and literature to distill the essence of seduction, the most highly refined mode of influence, the ultimate power trip.

The Art of Seduction is a masterful synthesis of the work of thinkers such as Freud, Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Einstein, as well as the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history. From Cleopatra to John F. Kennedy, from Andy Warhol to Josephine Bonaparte, The Art of Seduction gets to the heart of the character of the seducer and his or her tactics, triumphs and failures. The seducer's many faces include: the Siren, the Rake, the Ideal Lover, the Dandy, the Natural, the Coquette, the Charmer, and the Charismatic. Twenty-four maneuvers will guide readers through the seduction process, providing cunning, amoral instructions for and analysis of this fascinating, all-pervasive form of power. Just as beautifully packaged and every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion and offers the best lessons on how to take what you want from whomever you want or how to prevent yourself from being taken.]]> 466 Robert Greene 1861977697 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.93 2001 The Art of Seduction
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]]> Mastery 13589182 318 Robert Greene 0670024961 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 4.26 2012 Mastery
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]]> The 48 Laws of Power 1303 Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control � from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.

In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguilingâ€� and “fascinating,â€� Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.

Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Masterâ€�), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldnessâ€�), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totallyâ€�). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.]]> 452 Robert Greene 0140280197 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 4.11 1998 The 48 Laws of Power
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]]> <![CDATA[Burning Secret (Pushkin Collection)]]> 4455573 160 Stefan Zweig 1901285855 Leia 0 to-read 4.01 1911 Burning Secret (Pushkin Collection)
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> The Tale of Genji 7042 1182 Murasaki Shikibu 014243714X Leia 0 to-read 3.72 1000 The Tale of Genji
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]]> <![CDATA[Journey to the Centre of the Earth]]> 623395 254 Jules Verne 0140621393 Leia 0 to-read 3.64 1864 Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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average rating: 3.64
book published: 1864
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]]> From the Earth to the Moon 1366423
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane’s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a “mannedâ€� flight, one man’s dream turns into an international space race.

A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, From the Earth to the Moon is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verne’s timeless masterpieces 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days.]]> 240 Jules Verne 0553214209 Leia 0 to-read 3.55 1865 From the Earth to the Moon
author: Jules Verne
name: Leia
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1865
rating: 0
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]]> Joyland 13596166
A riveting story about love and loss, about growing up and growing old - and about those who don't get to do either because death comes for them before their time. It is at once a mystery, a horror story, and a bittersweet coming-of-age novel, one that will leave even the most hard-boiled reader profoundly moved.]]> 285 Stephen King 1781162646 Leia 0 to-read, king-and-bachman 3.90 2013 Joyland
author: Stephen King
name: Leia
average rating: 3.90
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]]> The Hymn to Dionysus 211004841 A timely and timeless reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin, for readers of The Song of Achilles and Elektra.

Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight for the homeland he’s never seen and to follow his commander’s orders at all costs. But when he rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes’s palace, his commander’s orders cease to make sense: Phaidros is forced to abandon the blue-eyed boy at a temple, and to keep the baby’s existence a secret.

Years later, after a strange encounter that led to the death of his battalion, Phaidros has become a training master for young soldiers. He struggles with panic attacks and flashbacks, and he is not the only one: all around him, his fellow veterans are losing their minds.

Phaidros’s risk of madness is not his only problem: his life has become entangled with Thebes’s young crown prince, who wishes to escape the marriage his mother, the Queen, has chosen for him. When the prince vanishes, Phaidros is drawn into the search for him—a search that leads him to a blue-eyed witch named Dionysus, whose guidance is as wise as the events that surround him are strange. In Dionysus’s company, Phaidros witnesses sudden outbursts of riots and unrest, and everywhere Dionysus goes, rumors follow about a new god, one sired by Zeus but lost in a fire.

In The Hymn to Dionysus, bestselling author Natasha Pulley transports us to an ancient empire on the edge of ruin to tell an utterly captivating story about a man needing a god to remind him how to be a human.]]> 416 Natasha Pulley 1639732365 Leia 0 to-read 4.24 2025 The Hymn to Dionysus
author: Natasha Pulley
name: Leia
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2025
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]]> <![CDATA[Hospital Station (Sector General, #1)]]> 1695570 192 James White 0345320689 Leia 0 to-read 4.05 1962 Hospital Station (Sector General, #1)
author: James White
name: Leia
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1962
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]]> <![CDATA[Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels, #1)]]> 363783 384 Anne Bishop 0451461487 Leia 0 to-read 3.74 1998 Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels, #1)
author: Anne Bishop
name: Leia
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (Piratica, #1)]]> 616049 288 Tanith Lee 0525473246 Leia 0 to-read 3.67 2004 Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (Piratica, #1)
author: Tanith Lee
name: Leia
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2004
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silver Metal Lover (Silver Metal Lover, #1)]]> 567708
Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood. . . .

For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion.

Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it. So she escapes into the city's violent, decaying slums to embrace a love bordering on madness. Or is it something more? Has Jane glimpsed in Silver something no one else has dared to see—not even the robot or his creators? A love so perfect it must be destroyed, for no human could ever compete?]]> 291 Tanith Lee 0553581279 Leia 0 to-read 4.03 1981 The Silver Metal Lover (Silver Metal Lover, #1)
author: Tanith Lee
name: Leia
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1981
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]]> Black Unicorn (Unicorn, #1) 377291 144 Tanith Lee 1596871628 Leia 0 to-read 3.91 1991 Black Unicorn (Unicorn, #1)
author: Tanith Lee
name: Leia
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[Wolf Tower (Claidi Journals, #1)]]> 293395 223 Tanith Lee 0142300306 Leia 0 to-read 3.73 1998 Wolf Tower (Claidi Journals, #1)
author: Tanith Lee
name: Leia
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[Don’t Bite the Sun (Four-BEE, #1)]]> 974195 Vintage paperback 158 Tanith Lee 0879972211 Leia 0 to-read 4.18 1976 Don’t Bite the Sun (Four-BEE, #1)
author: Tanith Lee
name: Leia
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1976
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shore of Women: The Classic Work of Feminist Science Fiction]]> 28321229 490 Pamela Sargent 1497640644 Leia 0 to-read 3.80 1986 The Shore of Women: The Classic Work of Feminist Science Fiction
author: Pamela Sargent
name: Leia
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1986
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]]> Foundation (Foundation, #1) 29579 The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.]]> 244 Isaac Asimov 0553803719 Leia 0 to-read 4.18 1951 Foundation (Foundation, #1)
author: Isaac Asimov
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average rating: 4.18
book published: 1951
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]]> Ubik 12346742 Time

Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,â€� a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter’s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all.

“More brilliant than similar experiments conducted by Pynchon or DeLillo.”—Roberto Bolaño]]> 227 Philip K. Dick 0547572298 Leia 0 to-read 4.10 1969 Ubik
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Leia
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1969
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]]> Noir 35301333
It’s not every afternoon that an enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar. It’s love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his move, an Air Force general named Remy arrives with some urgent business. ’Cause when you need something done, Sammy is the guy to go to; he’s got the connections on the street.

Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has been spotted up the Pacific coast near Mount Rainier, followed by a mysterious plane crash in a distant patch of desert in New Mexico that goes by the name Roswell. But that's nothing compared to the real weirdness happening on the streets of the City by the Bay.

Before long, Sammy and the Cheese are making time and having a gas. But when one of Sammy’s schemes goes south and the lady vanishes, Sammy must contend with his own dark secrets as he follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl.

Think Raymond Chandler meets "Men in Black" with more than a dash of the Looney Tunes All Stars. It's all very, very "Noir."]]> 339 Christopher Moore 0062433970 Leia 0 to-read 3.74 2018 Noir
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name: Leia
average rating: 3.74
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]]> The Bacchae 26523
Based on the Greek myth of the god Dionysus's punishment of King Pentheus and his mother Agave, Williams' The Bacchae of Euripides is a unique interpretation of one of the most celebrated plays in the history of dramatic theater.

With an Introduction by Martha Nussbaum, award-winning author of The Fragility of Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy]]> 144 Euripides 0374522065 Leia 0 to-read 3.85 -405 The Bacchae
author: Euripides
name: Leia
average rating: 3.85
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]]> Mördarens apa 21899401
För Sally Jones börjar en lÄng och svÄr kamp, bÄde för sin egen överlevnad och för att rentvÄ Chiefen. Hon har mÀktiga krafter emot sig. Krafter som till varje pris vill skydda hemligheterna som Morro tog med sig nÀr han försvann i floden Tejos svarta strömvirvlar.

Denna sÀllsamma berÀttelse Àr rikligt illustrerad med fantastiska och fantasieggande bilder i svartvitt, alla gjorda med utsökt precision in i minsta detalj.]]> 624 Jakob Wegelius 9163877384 Leia 0 to-read 4.22 2014 Mördarens apa
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name: Leia
average rating: 4.22
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]]> HĂ€ndelser vid vatten 108520097
Det Àr dessa mÀnniskor Kerstin Ekmans roman handlar om, deras försök att rÀdda minne och sammanhang fast de bor i den skugga av glömska som ligger över landsbygdens byar och smÄ samhÀllen.

Men i lika hög grad Àr det en roman om ett landskap. MÀnniskan har farit illa fram med det. NÀr de stora skogsbolagen drar sig tillbaka Àr det för alltid förÀndrat av hyggen, vÀgnÀt och grustÀkter. Kvar Àr de namnlösa platserna i starrens rike, gungande vÄta tuvor och sorlande vatten under marken. Vattnet viskar och jÀmrar, isande klart eller sugande svart. I sommarens bleka nattljus tycks hÀndelser och platser svÀva och vandra, lika svÄrgripbara och tvetydiga som mÀnniskors minnen och handlingar.]]> 591 Kerstin Ekman 9100801941 Leia 0 to-read 3.46 1993 HÀndelser vid vatten
author: Kerstin Ekman
name: Leia
average rating: 3.46
book published: 1993
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]]> Kallocain 13190200
Karin Boyes roman Àr en kuslig vision av ett polisstyrt och militariserat samhÀlle. Men den gestaltar ocksÄ en tro pÄ mÀnniskans förmÄga att skapa en annan, levande vÀrld.]]> 228 Karin Boye 9100106070 Leia 0 to-read 3.80 1940 Kallocain
author: Karin Boye
name: Leia
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1940
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]]> NĂ€r man skjuter arbetare 33124301
Kerstin Thorvalls vuxenböcker kÀnnetecknas av orÀddhet och frisprÄkighet, klassmedvetenhet och relationsproblematik, hennes prosa Àr associationsrik och drastisk, pregnant och mÄlerisk. Bland hennes sista böcker finns den kritikerrosade trilogin: NÀr man skjuter arbetare, för vilken hon belönades med Moa Martinson-priset.]]> 347 Kerstin Thorvall 9174296094 Leia 0 to-read 4.12 1993 NÀr man skjuter arbetare
author: Kerstin Thorvall
name: Leia
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1993
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]]> Det mest förbjudna 59604668 Jag kan aldrig bli vanöig och trevlig och normal. Det blir aldrig möjligt för mig at stanna belÄten i radhuslycka och barnbarnssrickningar.
Stygg dotter. Otrogen hustru. DĂ„lig mor. Motvillig farmor.
Ur trotsÄldern kommer jag aldrig. Det Àr tragiskt. Men ohjÀlpligt.
Till min dödsdag kommer jag att visa mamma och tanterna att jag törs. Att det inte blev lagom.
Att det kan bli mÄnga slut och sÄ mÄnga "nu-börjar-det-igen".]]> 193 Kerstin Thorvall 9100468428 Leia 0 to-read 2.00 1976 Det mest förbjudna
author: Kerstin Thorvall
name: Leia
average rating: 2.00
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]]> Pengar 3440043 212 Victoria Benedictsson 9127066673 Leia 0 to-read 3.47 1885 Pengar
author: Victoria Benedictsson
name: Leia
average rating: 3.47
book published: 1885
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]]> If We Were Villains 34369803
As a young actor at an elite conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same characters onstage and off � villain, hero, temptress � though he was always a supporting role. But when the teachers change the casting, a good-natured rivalry turns ugly, and the plays spill dangerously over into real life.

When tragedy strikes, one of the seven friends is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless...]]> 422 M.L. Rio 1785656473 Leia 2 4.29 2017 If We Were Villains
author: M.L. Rio
name: Leia
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2017
rating: 2
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]]> SkÀrmhjÀrnan junior 60056006 112 Anders Hansen 9178873231 Leia 1 non-fiction 3.56 SkÀrmhjÀrnan junior
author: Anders Hansen
name: Leia
average rating: 3.56
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]]> The Sisters Brothers 12736167
DeWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung-over and humorous odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier. Doffing his hat to the classic Western, he then transforms it into a comic tour-de-force with an unforgettable narrative voice that captures all the absurdity, melancholy, and grit of the West -- and of these two brothers, bound to each other by blood and scars and love.]]> 325 Patrick deWitt 1770890327 Leia 0 to-read 3.81 2011 The Sisters Brothers
author: Patrick deWitt
name: Leia
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)]]> 12995 The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation. Flem Snopes -- wily, energetic, a man of shady origins -- quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile.]]> 409 William Faulkner 0679736530 Leia 0 to-read 3.87 1940 The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
author: William Faulkner
name: Leia
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1940
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]]> The Sunset Limited 9472737
In that small apartment, “Blackâ€� and “White,â€� as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men–though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it.

Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life.

Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 150 Cormac McCarthy Leia 0 to-read, mccarthy 4.05 2006 The Sunset Limited
author: Cormac McCarthy
name: Leia
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2006
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]]> <![CDATA[The Passenger (The Passenger #1)]]> 60581087
Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.]]> 385 Cormac McCarthy 0593535227 Leia 0 to-read, mccarthy 3.58 2022 The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
author: Cormac McCarthy
name: Leia
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2022
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]]> Tales of the Big Bend 1851388 200 Elton Miles 0890963606 Leia 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.80 1976 Tales of the Big Bend
author: Elton Miles
name: Leia
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1976
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)]]> 159206
Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.

The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique--and mesmerizing--passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice.
--front flap]]> 430 Anne Rice 0679405283 Leia 0 to-read 3.72 1992 The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
author: Anne Rice
name: Leia
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles, #7)]]> 294890
At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de couleur libres, a society of New Orleans octoroons and quadroons steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reigned in the shadowy world where African and French--the dark and the white--intermingled. Her ancestors are the great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing--and from whom she inherits the power and the magical knowledge of a Circe.

Into this exotic realm comes David Talbot--hero, storyteller, adventurer, almost-mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It is he who recounts Merrick's haunting tale--a tale that takes us from the New Orleans of past and present to the jungles of Guatemala, from the Maya ruins of a century ago to ancient civilizations not yet explored.

Anne Rice's richly told novel weaves an irresistible story of two worlds: the witches' world and the vampires' world, where magical powers and otherworldly fascinations are locked together in a dance of seduction, death, and rebirth.

Description from inside jacket

From copyright page:
Frontispiece: Maya carving of ceremonial dancer on slate ax. Copyright Justin Kerr.]]> 307 Anne Rice 0679454489 Leia 0 to-read 3.68 2000 Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles, #7)
author: Anne Rice
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average rating: 3.68
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood and Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)]]> 159579 The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice’s spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns.

The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet intimate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence.

Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a “blood godâ€� by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through him we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths. We see him ultimately returning to his beloved Italy, where after the horrors of the Black Death, he is restored by the beauty of the Renaissance. We see him become a painter living dangerously yet happily among mortals, giving his heart to the great Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand.

Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to the English castle of the secret scholarly order of the Talamasca, the novel reaches its dramatic finale in our own time, deep in the jungle where Marius, having told his life story, seeks some measure of justice from the oldest vampires in the world.]]> 471 Anne Rice 0679454497 Leia 0 to-read 3.81 2001 Blood and Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)
author: Anne Rice
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> <![CDATA[Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles #9)]]> 1601646 544 Anne Rice 0676975429 Leia 0 to-read 3.63 2002 Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles #9)
author: Anne Rice
name: Leia
average rating: 3.63
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]]> <![CDATA[Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #11)]]> 21456823




Who � or what � is the Voice? What does it desire, and why?





There is only one vampire, only one blood drinker, truly known to the entire world of the Undead. Will the dazzling hero-wanderer, the dangerous rebel-outlaw Lestat heed the call to unite the Children of Darkness as they face this new twilight?





Anne Rice’s epic, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious new novel brings together all the worlds and beings of the legendary Vampire Chronicles, from present-day New York and Ancient Egypt to fourth-century Carthage and Renaissance Venice; from Louis de Pointe du Lac; Armand the eternally young; Mekare and Maharet; to Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the Secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true child of the Millennia. It also introduces many other seductive supernatural creatures, and heralds significant new blood.]]> 458 Anne Rice 0701189428 Leia 0 to-read 3.82 2014 Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #11)
author: Anne Rice
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average rating: 3.82
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, #6)]]> 333707
Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood–a ruined city under Mongol dominion–and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood.

As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today’s New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.]]> 388 Anne Rice 0679454470 Leia 0 to-read 3.70 1998 The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, #6)
author: Anne Rice
name: Leia
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1998
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