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Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly… Shares: Rock musicians, Musicians, Horror, Thriller

Asymmetry Lisa Halliday · 2018 · ★ 3.5 · 281p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Explores the imbalances that spark and sustain dramatic human relations, tracing the overlapping stories of a young American editor's relationship with a famous older writer, an unexpected New York romance during the early years of the Iraq War and an Iraqi-American man who is detained by immigration officers in Heathrow. Shares: Life change events, Literary

Kaikan fure-zu (Comic strip) Mayu Shinjo · 2004 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Things are really heating up between Lucifer and Jesus. Not only are the two supergroups battling each other to capture the top spot on the music charts ... each band's singer is courting the affections of a single girl!"--Cover p. [4]. Shares: Rock musicians, Musicians

Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through… Shares: Drug addicts, Literary, Thriller

Idoru William Gibson · 1996 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From first page Berkley paperback September 1997: 21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? Or is it that something violently new is about to happen... Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the "signature" an individual creates simply by going about the business of living.… Shares: Rock musicians, Musicians

Just Kids Patti Smith · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius. Shares: Rock musicians, Musicians

The Malefactor Edward Phillips Oppenheim · 1906 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Tall and burly, with features and skin hardened by exposure to the sun and winds of many climates, he looked like a man ready to face all hardships, equal to any emergency. Already one seemed to see the clothes and habits of civilization falling away from him, the former to be replaced by the stern, unlovely outfit of the war correspondent who plays the game. They crowded round him in the club… Shares: Good and evil, Thriller

The Girls from Corona del Mar Rufi Thorpe · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "An emotional novel about friendships made in youth and how these bonds-- challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance--either break or endure"-- Shares: Life change events, Literary

Danse Macabre Stephen King · 1980 · ★ 3.8 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This is a non-fiction study of the horror genre including books, movies, television, etc. ([source][1]) ---------- Also contained in: Works (Danse Macabre / Salem's Lot / Shining [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/nonfiction/danse_macabre.html Shares: Horror, Thriller

Luckiest Girl Alive Jessica Knoll · 2001 · ★ 3.5 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "A young woman strives to create the perfect life--husband, home, career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all"-- Shares: Life change events, Literary, Thriller

Delilah Shelia M. Goss · 2011 · ★ 4.9 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Thirty and fine, Samson Judges is preacher of the Peaceful Rest Missionary Baptist Church . He's beloved by his congregation, but temptation is about to strike in the form of divalicious beauty Delilah, and only the Good Lord knows if Samson will be able to keep his head on straight with her. Especially considering he's about to be married to Julia Rivers. Julia helped shape Samson into the man… Shares: Clergy, Thriller

Basket Case Carl Hiaasen · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 413p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba "accident," might be the stiff of Jack's dreams--if only he can figure out what happened.Standing in the way are… Shares: Rock musicians, Thriller

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe (Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5) Bryan Lee O'Malley · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life. Shares: Rock musicians, Good and evil

Run Away Harlan Coben · 2019 · ★ 4.1 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs. And you do… Shares: Drug addicts, Thriller

A Separate Peace John Knowles · 1966 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over sixty years, A Separate Peace is timeless coming-of-age novel about friendship, rivalry, and adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War… Shares: Literary, Death

Death Note, Vol. 8 Tsugumi Ohba · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Light - working as Kira, the newest member of the NPA intelligence bureau, and L - has nearly succeeded in creating his ideal world. But the years of uncontested victory have made him complacent, and he is unprepared for a new attack close to home. With his younger sister Sayu kidnapped and the NPA's Death Note demanded as ransom, Light must travel across the world and confront two new… Shares: Death, Good and evil, Horror, Thriller

The Good Luck Of Right Now Matthew Quick · 2014 · ★ 3.6 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When his mother dies, 38-year-old Bartholomew Neil, who doesn't know how to be on his own, discovers a letter in his mother's underwear drawer that causes him to write a series of highly intimate letters to actor Richard Gere, while embarking on a quest to find out where he belongs. Shares: Life change events, Literary

The last goodbye Reed Arvin · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate E-Book Extra: Who is Reed Arvin? An Interview with the AuthorFormerly elite lawyer Jack Hammond investigates a friend’s “alleged” overdose, and turns up spellbinding singer Michele Sonnier -- a troubled woman with deathly secrets. Jack’s weakness for women has already cost him a career, but he’ll risk his life to find the truth, which is buried deep in Michele’s mysterious world.From the hot new… Shares: Drug addicts, Thriller

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