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The Graveyard Book

Noboday 'Bod' Owens lives in the graveyard, and has done so most of his life. His parents are ghosts, his guardian straddles the world of the living and the dead, and his best friend is a witch. But, the real danger for Bod are the sinister forces on his trail in the world of the living...

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MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors

A collection of stories from the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH), during the Korean war, in the early 50's.

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In a Dark, Dark Wood

Nora is invited to a former friend's hen-do in an isolated house in the woods. But someone ends up dead, and everyone is a suspect.

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The Haunting of Hill House

A scientist studying the paranormal ropes in a few people to live in a "haunted" house. All is quiet, until the house starts acting up...

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

A deeply moving tale of a scientist forced to confront the ethical and moral implications of his research, and pay the price for disregarding those implications.

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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures

A first-hand account of the hunt for two lions which terrorized the crew building a railway line in Eastern Africa.

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The Silent Patient

A criminal psychotherapist joins a facility with the specific aim of working with one of their celebrity inmates, painter Alicia Berenson. Does he just want the publicity, or does he have a more sinister motive...

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in the slums of 18th-century France, with an extraordinary gift of smell. Working as a perfumer, he starts the grisly task of bottling up.. the essence of women.

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An Artist of the Floating World

Set in post-war Japan, the story explores the rapid modernization of the country and the resentment held against the older generation for thrusting the country into a needless war.

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Cloud Atlas

A thought-provoking tale spanning generations and eons, from the distant past to a post-apocalyptic far future, and examines how souls drift across time, and how the souls are interconnected

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I Am Legend

A plague has struck, and Robert Neville is the last man alive, and the rest of the world are undead vampires, thirsting for Neville's blood. He hunts them by day, and barricades himself by night. But how long will this continue...

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The Wife

Angela is married to celebrated author and economics professor. When he gets caught up in sexual harrasment case, her loyalty to him threatens to unveil her own dark secrets.

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