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Havana Room Colin Harrison · 2004 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Mystery and detective with this book.
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All the conspirators Christopher Isherwood · 1928 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Mother and child with this book.
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The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1915 · ★ 3.8 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Paulvitch still lived and sought vengeance against Tarzan. As part of his plot, he lured Tarzan's young son away from London. But the boy escaped, with the aid of the great ape Akut. They fled to the savage African jungles where Tarzan had been reared. There the civilized boy had to learn to meet the great beasts and face the dangers only his father had ever conquered. But he grew in time into… Shares Non-Classifiable
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Trouble in Timberline Frederick Faust · 1984 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Non-Classifiable with this book.
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Last Man Standing David Baldacci · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 656p · ≈ 21h · Moderate When Web London's FBI Hostage Negotiation Team is ambushed in a dark alley, Web is the only survivor. As the FBI investigates, suspicion surrounding Web deepens. Now, he needs help from an unlikely ally in his desperate search for the killer of his friends, and finds himself up against a force intent on finishing the job that began in the alley. Shares Mystery and detective
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Rejoice Karen Kingsbury · 2004 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Brooke Baxter has achieved everything this world has to offer--a prestigious career, a beautiful home, and two wonderful children. Her recent return to her faith is an encouragement to her family. But if she faces tremendous loss, can her fledgling faith and her rocky marriage survive? Shares Mother and child
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1916 · ★ 4.2 · 372p · ≈ 12h · Moderate From the book:Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a… Shares Non-Classifiable
Knave of Diamonds
Knave of Diamonds Laurie R. King · 2025 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Mary Russell’s allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle—and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve.When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is… Shares Mystery and detective
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Mystery of a Handsom Cab Fergus Hume · 1887 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Challenging 254 pages ; 22 cm Shares Mystery and detective
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The Pearl Angela Elwell Hunt · 2003 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Mother and child with this book.
The Narrows
The Narrows Michael Connelly · 2004 · ★ 4.5 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt… Shares Mystery and detective
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Lilith George MacDonald · 1895 · ★ 3.6 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September, 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature… Shares Non-Classifiable
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My Mother/My self Nancy Friday · 1977 · ★ 3.7 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Moderate My Mother/My Self examines the first, most lasting--and most crucial--time of every woman's life, and shows how, in all the passages of a woman's life--with men, with other women, on the job, and with her own daughters--every woman can begin to change the childhood patterns of the mother/daughter bond, and become the vital, independent, fully sexual woman she wants to be. Shares Mother and child
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The Hamilton Case Michelle de Kretser · 1970 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations and jungle, decay, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping, nuanced novel has a pitch-perfect ear for the comedy and a sharp eye for the tragedy of a world at the end of its tether." "Sam Obeysekere - 'obey' by name and by nature - is a Ceylonese lawyer, a perfect product of empire. His family once had wealth and… Shares Mystery and detective
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From hell Alan Moore · 1991 · ★ 4.2 · 8p · ≈ 16m · Moderate FROM HELL is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, FROM HELL is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention… Shares Mystery and detective
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The Beasts of Tarzan (Classic Ace SF, F-203) Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1914 · ★ 3.8 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The Beasts of Tarzan, the third book in the Tarzan series, was first published in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914. It was later published as a novel in 1916. Tarzan’s old enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, escapes prison and plans his revenge by kidnapping the Tarzan’s son, the heir of Greystoke. He also captures Tarzan and Jane, and takes them all back to Africa, where he strands the Ape-man on an… Shares Non-Classifiable
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Art of Mending, The (Ay Spoken Word - Berg) Elizabeth Berg · 2004 · ★ 3.0 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets--secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg's moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past?Laura Bartone… Shares Mother and child
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The Burnt House Faye Kellerman · 2007 · ★ 4.1 · 471p · ≈ 15h · Moderate At 8:15 in the morning, a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. Shock waves ripple through Los Angeles, as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack. But a grisly mystery lives inside the plane's charred and twisted wreckage: the unidentified bodies of four… Shares Mystery and detective

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