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The Grandest Game
08 $Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year’s game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win. Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power.
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The Great Gatsby: And Stories from All the Sad Young Men
08 $Centered on Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, the volume explores themes of disillusioned love, class, and the elusive American Dream, often featuring characters desperate to succeed in the Jazz Age.
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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 Hating Game
08 $Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him. -
The Hawthorne Legacy
08 $The Hawthorne Legacy follows Avery’s attempts to find Tobias Hawthorne II or “Toby,” Tobias’s son. The Hawthorne family thought Toby died in a fire 20 years ago, but Avery recognizes him as “Harry,” an unhoused man with whom she used to play chess. The main objective of The Hawthorne Legacy is to find Toby/Harry.
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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
08 $Helps individuals with high sensory processing sensitivity understand their trait—characterized by deep processing, attention to detail, empathy, and easy overstimulation—and thrive by managing overarousal, reframing past experiences, and using strengths like creativity and conscientiousness in work and relationships, recognizing it’s a genetic trait, not a flaw.
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The Housemaid
08 $The Housemaid (2022) is a mystery novel written by Freida McFadden. The story follows Millie Calloway, a young woman with a criminal past, who is employed as a housekeeper by a rich woman, Nina Winchester, with a seeming mental health condition.
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The Housemaid Is Watching
08 $This domestic thriller centers around Millie, the main character, who secures a job as a maid for the affluent Winchester family. Hired on the spot by Nina, the wife, Millie moves into their mansion, living in the attic bedroom. For Millie, who is homeless, this job signifies a fresh start.
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The Housemaid Secrets
08 $Two-paragraph version: Millie is a housekeeper who has helped many women get out of abusive relationships. Millie gets hired by Wendy for that purpose, to get away from her husband Douglas. When things get ugly, Millie shoots Douglas, and he dies.
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The Human Side of Innovation
08 $Emphasizes a human-centered approach to innovation, advocating for putting people first – both those who are innovating and those for whom the innovation is intended.
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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.