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There are some books that totally immerse you, and this is one of them. Cassie loses herself in her undercover role, and I was happily lost along with her. The life of the group of university friends is so well drawn, and so idyllic, that you wish you were part of it too - except that one of them probably murdered another one. That tension is always singing in the background like a struck glass, even as Cassie becomes ever more comfortable in her adopted life. It's a long book, but it never felt over-long. I wanted to know whodunnit (and why!) but I didn't want the story to end.
Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What's more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison - the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With no leads, no suspects and no clues to Lexie's real identity, Cassie's old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: send Cassie undercover in her place, to tempt the killer…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
I loved the way Caro takes an enormous amount of detail from a portion of Lyndon Johnson's life and weaves it into a digestible -- albeit large -- depiction of the complexities that made Lyndon Johnson what David Halberstam called "a politician the like of which we shall not see again in this country."
Those who overestimate the reach of social science, and those who overestimate the extent to which statistical correlations can enlighten us, can be guilty of dismissing historians and biographers as people who traffic too extensively in anecdotal evidence. But when so many anecdotes are brought to bear so skillfully in telling the tale of an outlier like Lyndon Johnson, we are reminded that a writer like Robert Caro is in an elite category of intellectuals who can explain to us what is beyond the comprehension of most explainers.
In "Means of Ascent", Caro covers the years 1941-48, years in the wilderness for Johnson, who had been devastatingly defeated for the Senate in 1941, but years of fascination for the biographer and for anyone interested in the more extreme grotesqueries of American politics. For this is the period when Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird made themselves rich, Texas-style rich. And it is the period when Johnson won his first seat in the US Senate, in an election whose corruption was legendary even by Texas standards. Caro has tried to expose the details of Johnson's financial dealings, so long…
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world
Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth—that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesn’t exist without the other. German physicist Werner Heisenberg was fighting with the scientific establishment on the meaning of the…
The Guardian of the Palace is the first novel in a modern fantasy series set in a New York City where magic is real—but hidden, suppressed, and dangerous when exposed.
When an ancient magic begins to leak into the world, a small group of unlikely allies is forced to act…
Despite being set in a soviet-era Gulag in northern Russian, I found this book oddly uplifting. The charming protagonist, a prisoner in a forced labour camp, is just trying to get through the day, and I found myself cheering for him at every turn.
Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn is fully worthy of them in narrative power and moral authority. His greatest work.
If anyone is still under any illusion that AI is some sort of saviour for mankind, read this book. Its comprehensive arguments draw on history, creativity, science, politics, every facet of human life, to offer, guidance, warnings, and red flags to look out for. We're already crashing through those red flags, this book is urgent.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
“Striking original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist
“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI and automated content production. . . . Masterful and provocative.”—Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests,…
I loved this novel for the distinctive voice of the pony, who wants to get even with humans for breaking his heart. Penny, the girl who loved him years ago, suddenly went away. "I am the Iago of ponies, a furry Fury. I am both adorable and devious.” He has startling abilities to bend minds and find things by long-gone smells. Embittered, he misbehaves his way into a rock-bottom existence. When he learns Penny has been hauled off to prison for a crime she didn't commit, he embarks on an odyssey to make things right.
The chapters in which Penny is trapped in a heedless justice system are painful to read. But the pony and his new friends, a goat and a hound dog, are on the case, and bring about a satisfying comeuppance, equine-style.
In this one-of-a-kind mystery with heart and humor, a hilariously grumpy pony must save the only human he’s ever loved after discovering she stands accused of a murder he knows she didn’t commit.
Pony has been passed from owner to owner for longer than he can remember. Fed up, he busts out and goes on a cross-country mission to reunite with Penny, the little girl who he was separated from and hasn’t seen in years.
Penny, now an adult, is living an ordinary life when she gets a knock on her door and finds herself in handcuffs, accused of murder…
Aury and Scott travel to the Finger Lakes in New York’s wine country to get to the bottom of the mysterious happenings at the Songscape Winery. Disturbed furniture and curious noises are one thing, but when a customer winds up dead, it’s time to dig into the details and see…
I only discovered this book because it was shelved wrongly in the bookshop - a serendipity that feels appropriate, given the plot! Like most writers and readers, I'm a sucker for a book about books or libraries or bookshops, but I often find them a bit soppy or twee. This one is not twee! A fantasy that reads like a thriller - at times a very gritty one. So many twists and turns, but everything coming together perfectly in the end. And it also manages to be a meditation on regret that made me bawl my eyes out over the last two chapters. Beautiful, cathartic and not at all twee.
I was spending all day on my laptop for work, and evenings scrolling (or doom-scrolling) through social media on my phone. This book nudged me into re-thinking my social media habits and things that were sucking up my time and energy. With practical ideas on not only how to unsubscribe from useless emails but also on how to create an in-real-life community around me, this book reminded me to live my life outside my devices.
Atomic Habits meets The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k in this life-changing guide to freeing yourself from the automated behaviours, values, and relationships that keep you from being happy.
When the pandemic essentially brought the world to a standstill, author Julio Gambuto came to understand a powerful truth: in the pre-pandemic world, people were exhausted, lonely, unhappy, wildly overworked and overbooked, drowning in sea of constantly being on the go and needing to buy more, more, more. But when that pressure disappeared, people rediscovered what was important to them. They quit jobs that made them unhappy and moved…
This book falls into a particular murder mystery niche I really go for - snarky, sexy, dark comedy murder mystery. It has a great premise and delivers on it. How can you resist a book where a true crime podcaster teams up with the person accused of murder to find the real killer? I have to say the ending could have been a bit sharper and there were probably almost too many characters and twists and turns but it was a fun ride anyway. I usually don't like audiobooks with multiple voices and musical interludes but this book knocked it out of the park with how professionally it was narrated and produced. Everyone in my book club is reading this book right now and we are not a book club who reads the same book. Highly recommended.
**RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK** **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** **THE SUNDAY TIMES 'PICK OF THE MONTH'** **PRIMA 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'** **WOMAN & HOME 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'** **WOMAN & HOME 'BOOK OF THE MONTH'** **TOP TEN KINDLE BESTSELLER**
'Edgy, thrilling, twisty - I loved it!' - LIANE MORIARTY 'A world-class whodunit' - STEPHEN KING 'Dark comedy and darker thrills' - ALEX MICHAELIDES 'Smart, surprising and very funny - wickedly entertaining' - SHARI LAPENA
Am I a murderer? You tell me . . .
Lucy Chase can't remember anything about the night her best friend was murdered. Lucky…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
I’m a physical therapist, certified yoga therapist, and Hakomi practitioner who has spent over twenty-five years helping people heal from physical and emotional pain through the integration of yoga, mindfulness and western medicine. My passion for this topic comes from my own transformation—moving through trauma and burnout into a life guided by mindfulness, movement, and compassion. I’ve seen again and again that presence is the medicine that changes everything. Writing and teaching about this path feels like offering others the same lifeline that once saved me.
I love the way Elizabeth Gilbert writes about surrender and holds nothing back in her confessions.
Her language is fluid, alive, honest, and forgiving. I connected deeply with her exploration of loss and letting go—the sense that life’s current, if trusted, carries us exactly where we need to go.
What moved me most was her unflinching honesty about sex and love addiction. She doesn’t try to appear perfect or heroic; she allows herself to be fully human. That raw vulnerability—her willingness to tell the truth even when it’s messy—is exactly what makes her work so transformative and what continues to inspire my own path as a writer and healer.
"A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." –People
“Entertaining, insightful, wrenching ... punch-to-the-gut powerful.” –The Washington Post
“A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling...Gilbert is undoubtedly a force.” —Boston Globe
In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.
In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally…
