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The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success
08 $Explains how his team discovered these laws and how they can apply to your life and the lives of those you touch.
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The God Of Small Things
08 $Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is about two fraternal twins in India whose lives are dictated by tragedies in their past. Significant themes include family, loyalty, forbidden love, colonialism/post-colonialism, education discrimination, and social class inequality.
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The Inmate
08 $aApsychological thriller about a single mother who returns to her hometown in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths. Memories of her past begin to haunt her when she takes a job at the federal prison where the father of her child, who once tried to kill her, is serving a life sentence for a triple homicide.
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The Lovely Bones
08 $It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from a personal heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death.
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The Metamorphosis
07 $The Metamorphosis, also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.
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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
015 $The murder victim, a wealthy widower who is stabbed to death in his study. Ackroyd was engaged to the recently deceased Mrs. Ferrars and received a letter from her just before his death. His murder sets the entire mystery in motion and uncovering the truth about his death drives the plot.
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The Phone Booth At The Edge Of The World
08 $The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is a poetic novel about a real telephone booth in Otsuchi, Japan, a rural town decimated by the 2011 tsunami. Known as the “Wind Phone,” the disconnected rotary telephone allows grieving family members to speak, in a way, to loved ones who have passed on.
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The Poppy War
08 $Fang Runin (“Rin”) is a war orphan in the Nikan Empire whose foster parents employ her in their opium smuggling. She secretly studies for a national test to escape an arranged marriage and places first in her province, which sends her north to Sinegard, the imperial capital and home of the military academy
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The Secret History
08 $Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.
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The Setting Sun
08 $The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai is a true testament to the struggles of Post War Japan. It tells the tragic story of an Aristocratic Family from the perspective of the eldest daughter Kazuko, as their sense of identity and titles have been stripped from them in the wake of Japanese social, and economic reforms.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
08 $Evelyn could not find true love despite being married several times; however, when she found the love of her life in a movie set as a co-star, she dedicated her life to the only woman she loved. This book is a letter to her only love, where Evelyn explains about her life before, after and when they were together.
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The Seven Year Slip
08 $The Seven Year Slip is a romance novel with a side of magical realism. After losing her aunt, Clementine moves into the apartment she inherited and realizes that she is not alone. In fact, there is a man staying at the apartment for the summer as her aunt arranged… seven years ago.