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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection of mysteries solved by the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes.
A study in scarlet – The sign of four -- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The ... (Goodreads)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A collection of adventures of the world's most famous detective, solving mysterious cases.
'If I were assured of your eventual destruction I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept my own.' In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes , the consulting detective's notoriety as the ... (Goodreads)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A thrilling detective story of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate a mysterious murder on the moor.
Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor on Dartmoor in Devon . The death was attributed ... (Wikipedia)
Out of the Silent Planet
by C.S. Lewis
A man is kidnapped and taken to another planet, where he must fight for his freedom.
While on a walking tour, the philologist Elwin Ransom is drugged and taken on board a spacecraft bound for a planet called Malacandra. His abductors are Devine, a former college acquaintance, and the ... (Wikipedia)
Diamonds Are Forever
by Ian Fleming
James Bond is on a mission to infiltrate a diamond smuggling ring and uncovers a plot to build a devastating weapon.
The British Secret Service agent James Bond is sent on an assignment by his superior, M . Acting on information received from Special Branch , M tasks Bond with infiltrating a smuggling ring ... (Wikipedia)
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
A darkly humorous story of a man's journey to self-awareness through disruption and chaos.
Choke follows Victor Mancini and his friend Denny through a few months of their lives with frequent flashbacks to the days when Victor was a child. , Victor had grown up moving from one foster home ... (Wikipedia)
Perelandra
by C.S. Lewis
Epic sci-fi fantasy about a man's mission to a new planet to protect it from evil.
The story starts with the philologist Elwin Ransom , some years after his return from Mars at the end of, Out of the Silent Planet, , receiving a new mission from the Oyarsa (the angelic ruler) of ... (Wikipedia)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John le Carré
A retired spy is called back into action to uncover a mole in the British Secret Service.
Control , chief of the Circus, suspects one of the five senior intelligence officers at the Circus to be a long-standing Soviet mole and assigns code names with the intention that should his agent ... (Wikipedia)
The Realms of the Gods
by Tamora Pierce
A young girl's quest to save the world, aided by ancient magics and mythological creatures.
In this final book of Daine's story, she and Numair are teleported to the Divine Realms. Daine's mother, Sarra, is now the Green Lady, a minor goddess of healing and childbirth in the northern ... (Wikipedia)
Thunderball
by Ian Fleming
A global battle of wits between a British secret agent and an international criminal syndicate.
During a meeting with his superior, M , Bond learns that his latest physical assessment is poor because of excessive drinking and smoking. M sends Bond to a health clinic for a two-week treatment to ... (Wikipedia)
Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
An oppressed society's revolution against their oppressive overlords, led by a young man with a hidden destiny.
It has been seven hundred years since mankind colonized other planets. The powerful ruling class of humans has installed a rigid, color-based social hierarchy where the physically superior Golds at ... (Wikipedia)
The Great Hunt
by Robert Jordan
A daring adventure to recover a powerful artifact, with a kingdom's fate at stake.
Ba'alzamon presides over a clandestine meeting. In addition to Forsaken and Darkfriends (the antagonist 's known subordinates), the meeting includes two Aes Sedai . At Fal Dara in Shienar, following ... (Wikipedia)
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
A Martian invasion of Earth, exploring the limits of human resilience.
The narrative opens by stating that as humans on Earth busied themselves with their own endeavours during the mid-1890s, aliens on Mars began plotting an invasion of Earth because their own resources ... (Wikipedia)
2BR02B
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A dystopian future where population control is mandatory and life is viewed as a commodity.
The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans , and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million, which is ... (Wikipedia)
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
by Charles Dickens
A collection of Christmas stories, including the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his redemption.
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found, here,. 'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding' Dickens' story of ... (Goodreads)
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
by H.P. Lovecraft
A collection of horror and science fiction stories that explore the unknown and the terrifying, often featuring cosmic entities and ancient gods.
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written. The Tomb (1917) ... (Goodreads)
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
Detective Hercule Poirot solves a murder mystery on the luxurious Orient Express.
After taking the Taurus Express from Aleppo to Istanbul , private detective Hercule Poirot arrives at the Tokatlian Hotel , where he receives a telegram prompting him to return to London . He ... (Wikipedia)
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
An orphan boy navigates the complexities of colonial India, espionage, and his own identity in this classic adventure novel.
Kim (Kimball O'Hara) , is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier (Kimball O'Hara sr., a former colour sergeant and later an employee of an Indian railway company) and a poor Irish mother (a former ... (Wikipedia)
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
A gripping tale of violence and pursuit in Texas' desolate landscape.
The plot follows the interweaving paths of the three central characters (Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh , and Ed Tom Bell) set in motion by events related to a drug deal gone bad near the ... (Wikipedia)
The House at Riverton
by Kate Morton
A family saga spanning generations, uncovering secrets and lies of a mysterious house.
Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley, a maid at Riverton Manor in the 1920s, has long hidden a terrible secret. A film is being made about a famous incident at Riverton when well-known poet Robbie ... (Wikipedia)
Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming
A secret agent is sent on a mission to defeat a dangerous criminal mastermind.
M , the enigmatic leader of the British Secret Service , assigns James Bond , a young agent newly promoted to "007" status after killing a Norwegian double agent during the war , to bankrupt Le ... (Wikipedia)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A collection of chilling tales, including the infamous story of a man's inner struggle between good and evil.
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil, has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a moral ... (Goodreads)
A Scandal in Bohemia
by Ronald Holt
Sherlock Holmes is hired by the King of Bohemia to retrieve a compromising photograph from an actress, but she outwits him.
Dr. Watson recounts an adventure that started on 20 March 1888. While Watson is paying Holmes a visit, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, the hereditary King of Bohemia , enters his office. ... (Wikipedia)
The Throne of Fire
by Rick Riordan
A quest to save the world from the evil forces of chaos and prevent an apocalypse.
Sadie and Carter Kane must find the three scrolls of the Book of Ra, to wake the sun god Ra from his sleep, and stop Apophis, the serpent of chaos, from destroying the world. The first scroll is ... (Wikipedia)
That Hideous Strength
by C.S. Lewis
A battle between good and evil, as a group of revolutionaries attempt to overthrow a sinister scientific organization.
The book, written during the final period of World War II , takes place at an undetermined year "after the end of the war". Mark Studdock is a young academic who has just become a Senior Fellow in ... (Wikipedia)
Smiley's People
by John le Carré
Retired spy Smiley is thrust back into the world of espionage to uncover a deadly conspiracy.
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him – and his hero, British ... (Goodreads)
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
A scientist travels through time, discovering the future of mankind.
The book's protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond , Surrey , identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller . Similarly, with but one exception ... (Wikipedia)
SAMPLER ONLY: Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
Katniss and Peeta are forced back into the arena for the Quarter Quell, facing new challenges and dangers in a fight for survival.
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. The Capitol ... (Goodreads)
The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
A gripping murder-mystery set in 19th century New York, exposing the dark underbelly of the city.
Narrated from the first-person perspective of John Moore, a crime reporter for, The New York Times, , the novel begins on January 8, 1919, the day that Theodore Roosevelt is buried. Moore has dinner ... (Wikipedia)
The Sleeping Beauty Killer
by Mary Higgins Clark
A former beauty queen is accused of murdering her fiancé, but her lawyer believes she may be innocent due to her history of sleepwalking.
The third thrilling novel in the Under Suspicion series by #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke follows television producer Laurie Moran ... (Barnes & Noble)
