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The Godfather
08 $This mob drama, based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone. When the don’s youngest son, Michael, reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay , he is drawn deeper into the family business.
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The Handmaid’s Tale
08 $A dystopian novel set in a totalitarian, theocratic state in former New England called the Republic of Gilead, where fertile women are forced to become “Handmaids” for the ruling class to repopulate.
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The Idiot
08 $A novel about Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a compassionate and innocent man who returns to Russian society after being treated for epilepsy.
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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 Kite Runner
08 $1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
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The Knight and the Moth
08 $Follows Sybil, a foundling raised as a “Diviner” at the Aisling Cathedral, as she receives prophetic dreams from beings called Omens.
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The Last Olympian
08 $Percy and his friends must defend Mount Olympus from the vengeful Titan lord, Kronos. As the ultimate battle unfolds, the fate of the entire world rests in their hands.
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The Lightning Thief
08 $A story about a troubled young boy who finds out his father is a Greek god, making him a demigod. He and his friends are given the task of finding and returning Zeus’s lightning bolt as monsters from the Underworld attempt to stop them.
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The Locked Door
08 $While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence.
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The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner
08 $A character study of a troubled young man from a bleak area of northern England who is sent to a juvenile detention center for the crime of stealing from a bakery.
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The Lost Symbol
08 $Follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he’s drawn into a dangerous conspiracy in Washington, D.C. Summoned to give a lecture, he finds his mentor, Peter Solomon, kidnapped and a cryptic invitation left behind. Langdon must decipher Masonic symbols and navigate a world of hidden history to save Solomon and uncover a long-lost secret.