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A thousand tomorrows Karen Kingsbury · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In this mass market edition, #1 bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a powerful story of a young couple whose love must face the ultimate challenge.Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking… Shares Psychological fiction

Eden's eyes Sean Costello · 1989 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Karen Lockhart has been blind all her life. Now she can see with a dead man's eyes but with her new blessing come an even greater curse: terror. Karen's world had grown dark until a vicious punk named Eden Crowell is killed one night in a barroom brawl and doctors salvage what they can from his ruined body. His heart goest to an old drunk, his kidney to a young girl, and his silver blue eyes… Shares Literature

Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 · ★ 3.8 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him. Shares Psychological fiction, Classics, Literature

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce · 1818 · ★ 3.6 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, his father's weaknesses and the growing realization that in order to make his way in the world he must reject a conventional life and boecome an artist. Penguin Popular Classics are the perfect introduction to the world-famous Penguin Classics series — which… Shares Psychological fiction, Classics, Literature

World mythology Donna Rosenberg · 1986 · ★ 5.0 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares Literature with this book.

The Creature from Jekyll Island

The Creature from Jekyll Island G. Edward Griffin · 1994 · ★ 4.4 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Challenging This is the classic exposé of the Fed that has become one of the best-selling books in its category of all time. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in… Shares Capitalists and financiers

Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature

Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature Norris J. Lacy · 2013 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Literature with this book.

Memento Mori Muriel Spark · 1958 · ★ 3.6 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Dame Lettie Colston, seventy-nine, O.B.E. and pioneer penal reformer, has much in common with the elderly residents of the Maud Long Medical Ward. All are united by scorn, resentment, boredom--and the maudlin humour that masks the awareness of impending death. Then the insidious telephone calls begin. 'Remember, you must die,' intones the grave, anonymous voice. As the suspicious… Shares Psychological fiction, Classics

Confessions of a venture capitalist Ruthann Quindlen · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Ruthann Quindlen has had a front-row seat in the creation of some of the largest and most fascinating companies of the day. She has been active in the software industry since the late 1970s and has worked as a general partner at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) since 1994, where she has focused on investments in software companies. Prior to that, she assisted a variety of software firms and… Shares Capitalists and financiers

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Gregor Samsa hates his job. He works himself to exhaustion as a traveling salesman to support a family that takes him for granted. One morning, his whole life changes. He wakes up to discover that he has turned into a giant insect. As he and his family come to grips with the fantastical event, The Metamorphosis explores themes of alienation, family loyalty, and unconditional love. Shares Literature

The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1852 · ★ 3.4 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts between what his characters espouse and what they actually experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of unrealized sexual… Shares Psychological fiction, Literature

Pembroke Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · 1894 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "Pembroke begins with a heated political argument between Barney Thayer and Cephas Barnard, the father of Barney's betrothed, Charlotte Barnard. The angry Cephas throws his prospective son-in-law out of the house and, because of his immense pride, Barney refuses to apologize, even though it means he cannot marry Charlotte. The Thayers and Barnards become locked in a clash of wills, and the broken… Shares Psychological fiction, Classics

Feeling is the Secret Neville Goddard · 2004 · ★ 4.4 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Light Your thoughts shape your life, create your reality, and ultimately limit or expand your true potential. This book describes how our thoughts and feelings affect who we become and what we achieve. When we have the power to change them, we gain the power to change our circumstances, our health, and our life's purpose. "The world, and all within it, is man's conditioned consciousness objectified.… Shares Classics

How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn · 1939 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Moderate **This is a story set in a south Wales coal mining valley and tells of a family striving to improve their lives through hard work, education and their non-conformist faith.** The main character is the youngest son, Huw Morgan and his life's journey through the difficulties associated with the mining industry and the awful risks involved in deep coal mining in the **mid nineteenth… Shares Classics, Literature

Amor and Psyche Erich Neumann · 1956 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Psychological fiction, Literature with this book.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor) James Hogg · 1824 · ★ 3.6 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow. Thereafter Confessions of a Justified Sinner attracted little interest until the 1890s, when the unbowdlerised text was… Shares Psychological fiction, Classics

Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend John McKinnell · 2005 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the dead"--Provided by publisher Shares Literature

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson · 1962 · ★ 3.9 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by… Shares Psychological fiction, Literature

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