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Malibu Rising
08 $Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind
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Maybe In Another Life
08 $Maybe in Another Life follows 29-year-old Hannah Martin. She’s recently moved back to her hometown Los Angeles and is ready to find out what fate has in store for her. What kind of career will she pursue? Who is her one true love?
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Nightbane
08 $Alex Aster’s intricate world expands after the riveting culmination of the Centennial games, delving more deeply into Isla’s memories of her past, as her future hurtles toward two possible fates.
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No Longer Human
010 $Oba Yozo’s attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a ‘clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult.
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Notes From The Underground
07 $Notes from Underground is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a “confession”. The work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title “A Confession”.
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Pride & Prejudice
08 $Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry.
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Reminders Of Him
08 $Reminders of Him (2022) is at once a conventional romance and a reimagination of the genre. Kenna Rowan, age 26, returns to her hometown near Denver after being in prison for five years. She is determined to have a relationship with her four-year-old daughter, Diem Landry.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
08 $In The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, we get to know Nuri, a beekeeper, and his wife Afra, an artist. They live peacefully in the beautiful city of Aleppo in Syria – until their lives are upended by war. The war shatters their lives, leaving Afra blind and forcing the couple to leave their home behind.
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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 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 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.