
Quiet
by Susan Cain
A compelling argument that our society dramatically undervalues introverts and the tremendous power of their deep thinking, focus, and quiet contributions.
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by Susan Cain
A compelling argument that our society dramatically undervalues introverts and the tremendous power of their deep thinking, focus, and quiet contributions.
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by Daphne du Maurier
A young woman marries the brooding Maxim de Winter and moves to his grand estate Manderley, where the memory of his glamorous first wife Rebecca poisons every room and every relationship.
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by Arthur C. Clarke
In 2131, a massive cylindrical alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and Commander Norton leads a crew to explore it before it departs — discovering a perfect, silent, alien world inside with no clear purpose and no clear occupants.
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by Julia Quinn
Colin Bridgerton discovers that Penelope Featherington — the wallflower he has known for years, and the anonymous Lady Whistledown — has secretly loved him for a decade.
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by Simon Sinek
An investigation into why some leaders and organisations are more influential and innovative than others, based on the Golden Circle framework.
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by Emily St. John Mandel
A flu pandemic obliterates civilization, and twenty years later a traveling Shakespeare company moves through the Great Lakes region, their story woven together with the pre-collapse lives of an actor whose death on opening night becomes the novel's pivot point.
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by Walter Isaacson
The authorised biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, based on more than forty interviews with Jobs and over one hundred with family members, friends, adversaries, and colleagues.
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by Michael Chabon
Two Jewish cousins — a Czech refugee with Houdini-level escape artistry and a Brooklyn teenager with a gift for business — create one of the golden age of comics' most enduring superheroes, The Escapist, while navigating World War II, love, loss, and the American immigrant experience. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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by Steven Pinker
Using data from archaeology, history, psychology, and criminology, Steven Pinker argues that violence in virtually every form — war, murder, torture, child abuse, animal cruelty — has declined dramatically over human history, and identifies the institutional, cognitive, and cultural forces responsible.
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by Taylor Larimore
The investment guide inspired by Jack Bogle's philosophy — written by three of the most active members of the Bogleheads online forum. Covers the full arc from starting to invest through retirement, emphasising low-cost index funds, broad diversification, tax efficiency, and ignoring market noise.
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by Don Winslow
The second volume of Don Winslow's epic drug-war trilogy. DEA agent Art Keller and cartel lord Adán Barrera resume their decades-long war as Mexico is engulfed in unimaginable violence — a vast, brutal, meticulously reported chronicle of the modern narcotics trade.
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by Warren Buffett
Lawrence Cunningham's compilation of Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, organised by theme rather than chronology. Covers corporate governance, finance, investments, mergers and acquisitions, accounting, and the valuation framework that made Buffett the world's greatest investor.
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by Lois Lowry
Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a Community where pain, conflict, and choice have been eradicated through Sameness — until the Ceremony of Twelve assigns him the singular role of Receiver of Memory, forcing him to carry the full weight of human history and exposing the quiet violence that keeps his world frictionless.
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by Philip Pullman
Lyra Belacqua lives in Jordan College, Oxford, in a parallel world where human souls exist outside the body as animal companions called daemons. After her friend Roger is kidnapped by the mysterious Gobblers, she embarks on a journey north that leads her to the Magisterium's most terrible secret.
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by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's masterpiece of psychological horror. A doctor studying the supernatural invites a small group to spend the summer in Hill House, a mansion with a sinister history — and the fragile, lonely Eleanor finds the house reaching into the deepest recesses of her mind.
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by C.S. Lewis
Four children stumble through a wardrobe into Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter under the White Witch's tyranny, where the return of Aslan the lion sets in motion a conflict between sacrifice and redemption.
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by Oliver Sacks
Twenty-four case histories from Sacks's neurological practice — patients who have lost the ability to recognise faces, who have Tourette's, who have lost all sense of their own body, who see the world as if it were a painting. Each case is also a meditation on what it means to be a self.
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by Thomas J. Stanley
A groundbreaking research study revealing how America's wealthy actually live — not in luxury, but with discipline, frugality, and long-term thinking.
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by Norton Juster
Milo, a bored boy who finds no meaning in anything, drives his toy car through a mysterious tollbooth and enters the Lands Beyond — a kingdom where words and numbers are at war and only he can restore balance by rescuing the banished Princesses Rhyme and Reason.
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by Charles Duhigg
An examination of the science of habit formation and how habits operate in individuals, organisations, and societies — and how to change them.
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by Louise Erdrich
Joe Coutts, thirteen years old, watches his mother return from a violent assault on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. The attacker cannot be prosecuted because of a jurisdictional tangle: the crime may have occurred on tribal land, federal land, or state land, and each has different rules about who can prosecute. Joe sets out to find justice himself.
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by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A dazzling novel about a reclusive Hollywood icon who finally tells her full, scandalous life story to an unknown young journalist.
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by Robert Jordan
Rand, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene each pursue separate paths as the world fractures: Rand journeys to the Aiel Waste to learn his destiny while Perrin races home to defend the Two Rivers from a Shadowspawn invasion. Widely regarded as the pinnacle of the series.
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by Alice Schroeder
The authorised biography of Warren Buffett — written by analyst Alice Schroeder with Buffett's full cooperation. Covers his childhood in Omaha, the development of his investment philosophy under Benjamin Graham, the building of Berkshire Hathaway, and the personal life that shaped and constrained the world's greatest investor.
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