en-US Sun, 04 May 2025 07:00:16 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 214152047 Stranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this shivery novel based on a terrifying urban legend about a small seaside town descending into chaos when an unusual video game is unveiled at the local arcade.

Having recently moved to the gentrifying seaside town of Tasker Bay with her mother, the only thing on high schooler Andi’s mind is saving up enough money for her escape to Silicon Valley. Though it’s owned by the shadiest resident in town, she takes a job at the dingy arcade Home Video World.

Pining over Andi is Ro, the son of Tasker Bay’s sheriff. With his friend’s matchmaking help, he begins spending more time at the arcade and soon, Andi finds herself opening up to Ro. But when the store gets an unusual new game of unknown origin, the floor is suddenly overwhelmed with players fighting to get some time on the machine. Seemingly overnight, a virus-like epidemic sweeps through the town while a major coastal storm rolls in, further isolating them from the outside world. Time is of the essence as residents collectively experience anger, paranoia, hallucinations, and even catatonia. And when one heinous act of violence goes unsolved, the town descends into utter chaos. Realizing no one is coming to their rescue, Andi and Ro take matters into their own hands to get to the bottom of the spiraling madness…until it begins affecting them, too.]]> 352 Collin Armstrong 1668044978 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.80 2025
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]]> 212431587 Three girls go into the woods, but only one comes out��

Driving alone at night in a wild rainstorm, Luke Conway strikes something—or someone. He and his wife, Carrie, recently moved back to Clear River to help take care of her ailing father, and after a tragedy at his previous job, this move is their last chance at a new life. Now, standing in the downpour on this Texas road, Luke, an off-duty cop, has a decision to make—and he has to make it fast.

No one else is around. No witnesses. And he can’t find a body.

Wanting to believe he’s being paranoid, that he’s just seeing things, Luke panics and leaves, deciding not to report the incident but rather to secretly investigate it. He can’t put more stress on Carrie, who’s already haunted by the unsolved attack and murder of two teenage girls that happened years ago in Clear River, a horrific crime in which she was the sole survivor. The killer has not been found, but Carrie and Luke’s anguished search for answers will slowly reveal the horrific truth.]]> 416 Rick Mofina 0778368599 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.02
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]]> 231249727 Ten children, abducted in broad daylight—and buried alive.

Sage and her sister won’t make it home from school today. Neither will the other children on Bus 315. But that’s only the beginning of the nightmare.

New bus driver Jessa blames herself for what happened. She couldn’t protect the kids she was supposed to deliver to daycare, just like she couldn’t protect her own daughter three years ago. But this time, everything will be different. It has to be.

Trapped in a shipping container buried twenty feet underground, Jessa and the children do their best to stay calm. The kidnappers insist that if everyone behaves, they’ll be freed when the ransom is paid. But Sage isn’t sure they’ll last that long. Neither is Jessa. It’s dark and cramped, and with every passing minute it’s getting harder to breathe.

With time—and air—running thin, Jessa and the children must find a way to outsmart their captors, or face an unthinkable fate.

Such Quiet Girls was inspired by actual events.


]]> 352 Noelle W. Ihli Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.07 2025
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]]> 220443728 Living a lie becomes a matter of life and death for a woman hiding from her past in a novel of mounting psychological suspense by the bestselling author of Jane Doe and The Hook.

Traveling nurse Elizabeth May has a promising new home in Santa Cruz. And another new identity. It’s a pattern of reinvention for a woman escaping a traumatic childhood—and hiding from the decades of notoriety and destruction that followed. Invisibility has kept Elizabeth safe. Until now. After all these years, someone sees her for who she is.

Threat by threat, a vengeful stalker is dismantling Elizabeth’s carefully constructed lifetime of lies. And no one in her temporary circle can be trusted. Not her fleeting new love interest. Not the supportive friend she knows only from online forums. And certainly not the police. They’ve never been there for her.

As dread sharpens to fear, Elizabeth soon discovers something about her past that even she didn’t know. The revelation could finally set her on a path of healing and redemption. Or, now alone in the dark, it could be Elizabeth’s worst nightmare.]]> 318 Victoria Helen Stone 1662514611 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.58 2025
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]]> 216970870 What would you do if you thought your coworker was getting away with murder—literally?

Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold: strangler gloves, calculated charm, dashing good looks that give a leg up in any field . . . including fields of unmarked graves.

The new office temp is definitely a serial killer.

Jake Ripper finds a welcome distraction in his combative and enigmatic new coworker. He hasn’t come across anyone as interesting as Dolores in a long time. But when mere curiosity evolves into a darkly romantic flirtation, Jake can’t help but wonder if, finally, he’s found someone who really sees him, skeletons in the closet and all.

Until Dolores asks Jake’s help to dispose of a body . . .

A morbidly funny and emotionally resonant novel about the ways life—and love—can sneak up on us (no matter how much pepper spray we carry). ]]> 384 Kate Posey 0593818512 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.84 2025
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]]> 231020889 فقط من سينجو عندما يحل الصباح!]]> 424 Riley Sager 9778242526 Hisham farouk 3 2.90 2021
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average rating: 2.90
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]]> 50695418 "أهو انتحار أم تكون جريمة قتل؟"
تبدأ الرواية بجثة منكفئة وتساؤل حائر وعيون محدّقة، وتنتهي بالحقيقة...
وبين البداية والنهاية تتشابك الأحداث، ما بين حب مستحيل، ومعاملات مالية مشبوهة، ودوافع غير أخلاقية، وقلوب بالأمل معلّقة، وقاتل مجهول، ومطر كاشف!]]> 266 نهى داود Hisham farouk 2 3.64
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]]> 231681636 Simone St. James, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel, returns with her scariest, most shocking novel yet in this pulse-pounding story about siblings who return to the house they fled 18 years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request: Come home.

Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A mysterious drowning at the town’s roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose body is left by the railroad tracks. For the Esmie siblings—Violet, Vail, and Dodie—the final straw was the shocking disappearance of their little brother. It started as a normal game of hide-and-seek. The three closed their eyes and counted to ten while Ben went to hide. But this time, they never found their brother—he was gone and the ongoing search efforts turned up no clues.

As their parents grew increasingly distant, Violet, Vail, and Dodie were each haunted by visions and frightening events that made them leave town and never look back. Violet still sees dead people—spirits who remind her of Sister, the menacing presence that terrorized her for years.

And now after two decades running from their past, it’s time for a homecoming. Because Ben is back, and he’s ready to lead them to the answers they’ve longed for and long feared. If the ghosts of Fell don’t get to them first.

A Box Full of Darkness is another propulsive thriller from the author of The Broken Girls and The Book of Cold Cases, a surprising horror story from a writer who is “particularly gifted at doling out twists�� (The New York Times).]]> 384 Simone St. James 0593200411 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 217213002 Two women haunted by their sisters' unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.

Nicole “Nic�� Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry for her for��the��last seven years—since the day her older sister, Kasey, vanished without a trace.

On the��night Kasey went missing, her car was found over��a��hundred miles from home. The��driver’s door was open and her purse was untouched in��the��seat next to it. The only real clue in her disappearance was Jules Connor, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in��the��same way, two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on, both their cases eventually went cold.

Nic wants nothing more than to move on—from her sister’s disappearance and��the��state it’s left her in. But then one day, Jules’s sister, Jenna Connor, walks into her life and offers Nic something she hasn’t felt in��a��long hope. What follows is��a��gripping tale of two sisters who will do anything to find their��missing��halves, even if it means destroying everything they’ve ever known.]]> 272 Ashley Flowers 0593726987 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.02 2025
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]]> 223530470 - ستيف بيري، المؤلف الأكثر مبيعًا في نيويورك تايمز.

الدكتور ديفيد إيفانز جراح دماغ مرموق وأب مخلص، ولكن سرعان ما يواجه المعضلة الكبرى؛ إذا غادر مريضه التالي الذي يجب أن يخضع لعملية جراحية في الدماغ طاولة العمليات وهو على قيد الحياة، فإن ابنة الدكتور إيفانز المختطفة ستموت على يد مريض نفسي عنيد، وسيضطر هو إلى مشاهدة ذلك.

على مدار خمس وخمسين ساعة محمومة، يتسابق الدكتور إيفانز لملاحقة مطارِده وإيجاد طريقة للخروج من هذا المأزق الكابوسي، ولكن إلى أي مدى سيذهب لإنقاذ حياة ابنته؟

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خوان جوميز خورادو:
صحفي وروائي إسباني، تُرجمت أعماله إلى أكثر من 40 لغة، وهو واحد من أنجح المؤلفين الإسبان المعاصرين. يتميز أسلوبه بالجمع بين الإثارة والعُمق النفسي؛ مما يجعله واحداً من أبرز كتاب الإثارة في العصر الحديث.]]> 518 Juan Gómez-Jurado 9779613854 Hisham farouk 0 4.29 2014
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> 211004089
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty of life here, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, eighteen and suffering his first heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, seventeen, has started spending her nights on the beach among the seals; nine-year-old Orly, obsessed with botany, fears the loss of his beloved natural world; and Dominic can’t stop turning back toward the past, and the loss that drove the family to Shearwater in the first place.

Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to feel like a family again. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting her heart, begins to fall for the Salts, too. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers the sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own dark secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, the characters must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.]]> 303 Charlotte McConaghy 1250827957 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.26 2025
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]]> 219889923 In a small town, the truth can’t always set you free��

When a second woman from a group of friends known as “the posse�� is murdered in the woods near the New England enclave of Kendalton, FBI agent and profiler Gus Wheeler and his partner are called in to determine if this is a serial killing. He’s intrigued by a clue hidden on the a memorial picture of a teen who died 25 years ago.

Instead of helping with the investigation, the long-term friends stonewall the agents. But Gus can smell fear beneath their calm masks, fake smiles, and politely vague answers. Digging deeper, he discovers they are being terrorized by cyberstalking, spying, threats and mysterious break-ins. When a third member is hospitalized after a brutal attack, Gus suspects someone in the posse is the hunter instead of the hunted.

Is it the alpha leader Jules, her best friend Maria—married to the chief of police—outsider Mel, or weak link Lizzy? Or someone else bent on revenge? Time’s running out, and Gus’s life depends on his skill at determining who’s the best liar in town.]]> 363 R. John Dingle 1965640354 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.33 2025
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]]> 223373507 بعضنا، من أصحاب الإنجازات الكبيرة، قتل أكثر من شخص. لا أحاول أن أكون درامياَّ، لكنها الحقيقة. لسنا عائلة من المرضى النفسيين؛ بعضنا جيد، والبعض الآخر سيئ، وبعضنا فقط سيئ الحظ.
أنا إرنست كانينجهام. نادوني "إرن" أو "إرني".
كنت أتمنى لو أنني قتلت الشخص الذي قرر أن يكون لمُّ شملِ عائلتنا في منتجع للتزلج، لكن الأمر أكثر تعقيدًا من ذلك بكثير.
هل أنا أيضًا قتلت شخصًا ما؟ نعم، فعلت ذلك.
من كان؟ سنعرف.
كل شخص في عائلتي قتل أحدًا ما: أخي، أختي غير الشقيقة، زوجتي، والدي، والدتي، زوجة أخي، زوج عمتي، زوج والدتي، عمتي.. وأنا.]]> Benjamin Stevenson 9779924892 Hisham farouk 4 4.25 2022
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name: Hisham farouk
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]]> 43868109 The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis.

Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.]]> 535 Patrick Radden Keefe 0385545681 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.54 2021
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]]> 223981525 288 حسن الجندي 9779672311 Hisham farouk 5 عجبتني جدا :) 3.58 2025
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عجبتني جدا :)
]]> 217955984
تعريف
تبحث تريشيا وإيثان المتزوجان حديثًا عن منزل أحلامهما، ولكن عندما يزوران القصر البعيد الذي كانت تملكه الدكتورة أدريان هيل، الطبيبة النفسية الشهيرة التي اختفت قبل عدة سنوات من دون أن تترك أثرًا، تحاصرهما في المنزل عاصفة ثلجية عنيفة... مع غياب أي فرصة للعودة حتى تنتهي هذه العاصفة.
في أثناء بحث تريشيا عن كتاب يسلِّيها لحين انتهاء العاصفة، تصادف غرفة سرية تحتوي على تسجيلات صوتية للمرضى الذين قابلتهم الدكتورة هيل. وعندما تستمع تريشيا إلى التسجيلات، تتعرف على سلسلة الأحداث المرعبة التي أدت إلى الاختفاء الغامض للدكتورة هيل.
تشغل تريشيا الأشرطة واحدًا تلو واحد. ومع كل شريط، تقع قطعة صادمة أخرى من اللغز في مكانها، وتتكشف ببطء شبكة أكاذيب الدكتورة أدريان هيل! ثم تصل تريشيا إلى الشريط الأخير الذي يكشف الحقيقة المرعبة بأكملها!

عن المؤلفة
فريدا مكفادن طبيبة ممارسة متخصصة في إصابات الدماغ، ألَّفت العديد من روايات الإثارة النفسية التي تصدَّرت قوائم الكتب الأكثر مبيعًا، وتُرجمت إلى أكثر من ثلاثين لغة.
تعيش فريدا مع عائلتها وقطتها السوداء في منزل من ثلاثة طوابق يعود بناؤه إلى قرون مضت، ويطل على المحيط، وبه سلالم تصدر صريرًا وأنينًا مع كل خطوة، ولا يمكن لأحد أن يسمعك إذا صرخت، إلا إذا صرخت بصوت عالٍ حقًّا... ربما.

عن المترجمة
إيناس التركي مترجمة مصرية. تخرجت في قسم اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها بكلية الآداب، جامعة عين شمس. ترجمت لدار الكرمة كتاب «عندما تحب النساء أكثر مما ينبغي: أن تعيشي في انتظار أن يتغير» لروبين نورود، والروايات: «خلف هذه الأبواب» لروث وير، و«جمعية جيرنزي للأدب وفطيرة قشر البطاطس» لماري آن شيفر وآني باروز، و«المكتبة المتنقلة» لكريستوفر مورلي.]]> 336 Freida McFadden 9779603018 Hisham farouk 4 4.15 2022
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average rating: 4.15
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rating: 4
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]]> 205321017 روجر ميفلين بائع كتب متجول يسافر عبر ريف نيو إنجلاند مع مكتبته المتنقلة في مهمة تنويرية، رجل عابث وحكيم وهمجي ونبيل، بفلسفته الفريدة وعينيه الساطعتين، وبفرحته المعدية بالكتب والمؤلفين يعرض قلب وروح الكتب، لكن عانسًا مفعمة بالحيوية، ساخطة على حياتها، قد يكون لها يد في تغيير كل ذلك.
إن خيوط هذه المغامرة مليئة بمشاجرات نارية على الطريق، وهروب بطولي من الموت، وألذ ولائم في تاريخ فن الطبخ الأمريكي... وقصة حب نادرة.

عن المؤلف
كريستوفر دارلينجتون مورلي (1890-1957) كان صحفيًّا وروائيًّا وكاتب مقالات وشاعرًا أمريكيًّا. والِده عالِم رياضيات، ووالدته موسيقية وشاعرة، اكتسب منها حبه للأدب. بدأ الكتابة بينما كان لا يزال في الكلية، وعمل على تحرير مجلة الكلية، وأسهم فيها بمقالات. وعقب تخرجه في جامعة أكسفورد، بدأ مسيرته الأدبية في دار نشر دابلداي، حيث عمل في مجال الدعاية وقراءة المخطوطات التي ترِد إلى الدار.
حقق مورلي النجاح في العديد من المجالات على مر السنين، واكتسب شعبية بفضل أعمدته الأدبية في صحيفة «نيويورك إيفيننج بوست» ومجلة «ذا ساترداي ريفيو أوف ليترتشر»، إلى جانب مجموعات من المقالات والأعمدة المتنوعة. ألَّف مورلي أكثر من 100 رواية وكتاب مقالات ومجلدات شعرية، وما زال مشهورًا حتى اليوم بسبب روايته الجميلة «المكتبة المتنقلة»، التي صدرت في عام 1917، والتي لا تزال تُطبع إلى يومنا هذا وتسعِد العديد من القراء.

عن المترجمة
إيناس التركي؛ مترجمة مصرية، وُلدت في القاهرة عام 1973. تخرجت في قسم اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها في كلية الآداب، جامعة عين شمس. ترجمت لدار الكرمة رواية «جمعية جيرنزي للأدب وفطيرة قشر البطاطس» لماري آن شيفر وآني باروز، ورواية «خلف هذه الأبواب» لروث وير، وكتاب «عندما تحب النساء أكثر مما ينبغي: أن تعيشي في انتظار أن يتغير» لروبين نورود.]]> 232 Christopher Morley 9778678383 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.93 1917
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 1917
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]]> 222683916 A hidden darkness stirs in this locked-room mystery from the author of William.

There are many ways to die on Mars. Only one way to find the truth.

The human crew sent to prepare the first-ever colony on Mars arrives to find their brand new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray—the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some truly disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. Their stories analyzed. But one of them is missing.

In this barren, hostile landscape, even machines have nightmares, and the line between human and artificial intelligence blurs. The astronauts will need to examine their own stories and wrestle their own demons before it’s too late.

In this wicked, taut, one-sitting read, Mason Coile blends science fiction and psychological horror in a story that terrifies and unnerves as it engages some of humanity’s deepest questions.]]> 224 Mason Coile 0593851633 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.96 2025
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]]> 216751889 A page-turning, supernaturally-tinged LA puzzle-box thriller �� Zodiac with teeth, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and bestselling author of Come with Me. Perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Lauren Beukes.

What do you see...?

When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the detective assigned to the case can't deny the similarities between this murder and one that occurred a year prior. Media outlets are quick to surmise this is the work of a budding serial killer, but Detective Bill Renney is struggling with an altogether different a secret that keeps him tethered to the husband of the first victim.

What do you hear...?

Maureen Park, newly engaged to Hollywood producer Greg Dawson, finds her engagement party crashed by the arrival of Landon, Greg’s son. A darkly unsettling young man, Landon invades Maureen’s new existence, and the longer he stays, the more convinced she becomes that he may have something to do with the recent murder in the high desert.

What do you feel...?

Toby Kampen, the self-proclaimed Human Fly, begins an obsession over a woman who is unlike anyone he has ever met. A woman with rattlesnake teeth and a penchant for biting. A woman who has trapped him in her spell. A woman who may or may not be completely human.��

In Ronald Malfi's brand-new thriller, these three storylines converge to create a tapestry of deceit, distrust, and unapologetic horror.��A brand-new novel of dark suspense set in the City of Angels, as only “horror’s Faulkner�� can tell it.]]> 432 Ronald Malfi 1803367601 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.99 2025
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]]> 221144907 “No one does suburban paranoia like Shari Lapena.”—Ruth Ware

The new gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late?

Bryden and Sam have it all: thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple.

Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden–working from home that day–has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall.

Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It’s as if she just walked out.]]> Shari Lapena 0593832450 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.18 2025
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> 222904918 لا أحد يعرف الهوية الحقيقية لهذا المُشرد. هل هو مجرم، عميل سري أو حتى فضائي؟ وهل يستطيع سكان الحي مساعدته على استرجاع ذاكرته؟ وهل يتحلى بالشجاعة الكافية لمواجهة ماضيه وتصحيح أخطاء حياته السابقة؟]]> 269 Kim Ho-yeon Hisham farouk 5 3.63 2021
author: Kim Ho-yeon
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> 214565614 A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.]]> 448 Stephen Graham Jones 1668075083 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.22 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.22
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]]> 214151565 A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. For the millions of us still chasing those gone girls, this is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Laura Dave.

Sloane Caraway is a liar.

Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting.

So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can't help herself—she tells the girl's (very attractive) dad she's a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl's foot.

With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island.

But maybe Sloane isn't the only one lying, and all that's picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth. To say anything more is to spoil the most exciting, twisty, and bitingly smart suspense novel to come out in years.

The thing about lies is that they add up, form their own truth and a twisted prison of a world. And in Count My Lies, Sophie Stava spins a breakneck, unputdownable thriller about the secrets we keep, and the terrifying dangers that lurk just under the images we spend so much time trying to maintain.

Careful what you lie for.]]> 336 Sophie Stava 1668079348 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.73 2025
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]]> 217387838 The latest gripping serial killer thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Alex North.

Dan Garvie’s life has been haunted by the crime he witnessed as a child—narrowly escaping an encounter with a notorious serial killer. He has dedicated his life since to becoming a criminal profiler, eager to seek justice for innocent victims. So when his father passes away under suspicious circumstances, Dan revisits his small island community, determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these years?

With his signature shock and suspense, Alex North brings us The Man Made of Smoke. In turn emotional, introspective, and utterly terrifying, this is a story of fathers and sons, shadows and secrets, and the fight we all face to escape the trauma of the past.]]> 320 Alex North 1250757894 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.23 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.23
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]]> 221733727 There’s no place like home��

Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he's desperate to make ends meet.

Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she?

Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...

Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. The trap is already set.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden knocks at your door with a gripping story of revenge, privilege, and secrets turned sour��]]> 368 Freida McFadden 1464238812 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.29 2025
author: Freida McFadden
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.29
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]]> 26859967
In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks, she is found dead, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.

In an exclusive London club, a conspiracy is launched that threatens the very heart of government. When a renowned society couple with fascist leanings are found brutally murdered, a maverick Cambridge professor is drawn into a world of espionage he knows only from history books. The deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he finds to link the murders with the girl with the silver syringe - and even more worryingly to the scandal surrounding the Abdication . . .]]> 352 Rory Clements 1848548591 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.79 2016
author: Rory Clements
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 59592398
After spellbinding audiences in The Hypnotist, Detective Inspector Joona Linna is back in The Nightmare, an internationally bestselling Swedish thriller published to critical acclaim in dozens of countries. As the Swedish newspaper Arbetarbladet put it, “The reader is ready to sell his own soul for the opportunity to read this book without interruption, in one sitting.��

On a summer night, police recover the body of a young woman from an abandoned pleasure boat drifting around the Stockholm archipelago. Her lungs are filled with brackish water, and the forensics team is sure that she drowned. Why, then, is the pleasure boat still afloat, and why are there no traces of water on her clothes or body?

The next day, a man turns up dead in his state apartment in Stockholm, hanging from a lamp hook. All signs point to suicide, but the room has a high ceiling, and there’s not a single piece of furniture around—nothing to climb on.

Joona Linna begins to piece together the two mysteries, but the logistics are a mere prelude to a dizzying and dangerous course of events. At its core, the most frightening aspect of The Nightmare isn’t its gruesome crimes—it’s the dark psychology of its characters, who show us how blind we are to our own motives.]]> 464 Lars Kepler 6144721924 Hisham farouk 3 3.69 2010
author: Lars Kepler
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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]]> 228040409 ويليام وولر، ربُّ أسرة وطبيبٌ مرموق، تنهي عشيقته نورا -جارته المتزوجة- علاقتهما السرية دون مقدمات، بعد ظهيرة يوم مشؤوم. لدى عودته لمنزله في حنق شديد وتوتر، طالبًا بعض السكينة قبل الذهاب لمركز عياداته الطبي، يجد ابنته مضطربة السلوك، ذات السنوات التسع، وقد عادت من المدرسة وحدها مبكرًا، وهو ما لم يتوقعه. يحاول الأب أن يعرف منها السبب، يحاول تمالك أعصابه مرة ثم مرة، حتى يفقدها.
يخرج.. وبعد عدة ساعات، تبلغ والدة الطفلة الشرطة باختفائها.
لم يعد ساكنو ستانهوب ينعمون بالسلام، ولم يكن ويليام الوحيد بينهم الذي يخفي سرًّا. ينهال مطرٌ من الحقائق، ولا يُعلم أيُّها صدقٌ وأيُّها كذبٌ. أصاب اختفاء الطفلة الجميع باللُّوثَة. كلٌّ متورط، كلٌّ يخفي أمرًا، وشخص واحد صامتٌ يعرف كلَّ ما يجري.
أين هي ابنة وولر؟ مَن اختطفها؟]]> 304 Shari Lapena 977992423X Hisham farouk 0 3.52 2023
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.52
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]]> 216971219 A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.

Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something a mysterious staircase to nowhere.

One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears.

Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods. . . .]]> 388 Chuck Wendig 0593156560 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.84 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.84
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]]> 220223963 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder—now a hit Netflix series—returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.

Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.

Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.

She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.

Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.

She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:

Jet is going to solve her own murder.]]> 400 Holly Jackson 059397705X Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.34 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.34
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]]> 219240806 From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling thriller The Perfect Marriage

Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.

It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted �� or is it?

After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former deputy Marcus Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth.

But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues. Filled with page-turning suspense and Jeneva Rose’s signature twists and turns, this book will have readers wondering: Can Bob and Sarah achieve the perfect divorce? Or will it be “’til death do us part��?]]> 288 Jeneva Rose Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.13 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.13
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]]> 211894916 An extreme game of hide-and-seek turns deadly in this riveting new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger

When the real game begins, who will make it to the count of 10?

Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But as the players gather on Falcao Island, the event quickly spirals into a chilling test of survival. A storm rages as a deadly threat stalks the contestants, turning the challenge into something far more sinister than the social media stunt it was intended to be.

Enter Adele, a single mother with a fierce determination to protect her children at all costs. When she begins the game, she unwittingly enters a twisted web of deception and intrigue. Can she maneuver through the treacherous storm and the relentless competition and get home to her family? In a ruthless battle for survival where the stakes are higher than ever, the blurry line between the virtual and the real proves that the only person we can trust is ourselves.]]> 384 Lisa Unger 0778333361 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.14 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.14
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]]> 220160814 From #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell, an author “at the very top of her game�� (Lucy Foley)—three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.

“Who are you? Who are you really?��

Nick Radcliffe is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. He’s just what Nina Swann needed in her life after her husband’s unexpected death. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling��

“Because there are things that don’t make sense, and I’ve been so patient, so very patient…��

Martha is a florist living in a neighboring town with her infant daughter and her devoted husband Alistair. But lately, Alistair has been traveling more and more frequently for work, disappearing for days at a time. When Martha questions him about his frequent absences, he always has a legitimate explanation, but Martha can’t share the feeling that something isn't right.

“You know that’s mad, don’t you? I’m your husband. We know everything there is to know about each other.��

Nina, Martha, and Ash are on a collision course with a shocking truth that is far darker than anyone could have imagined. And all three are about to wish they had heeded the same warning: Don’t let him in. But the past won’t stay buried forever.]]> 368 Lisa Jewell 1668033879 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.99 2025
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]]> 219603177 One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.

In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family.��Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution.

Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto��a luxury��train from Philadelphia to Chicago,��an overnight��journey of fourteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served.

But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge—and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead.

With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them—even though it means putting her own life at risk.]]> 400 Riley Sager 0593472403 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.61 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.61
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]]> 218671812 From the��New York Times��bestselling author of��The Kind Worth Killing�����Ի���Eight Perfect Murders��comes an inventive, utterly propulsive murder-mystery in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time to uncover the dark secret at its heart.

Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a published poet and Thom teaches English literature at a nearby university. Their son, Jason, is all grown up. All is well…except that Wendy wants to murder her husband.

What happens next has everything to do with what happened before. The story of Wendy and Thom’s marriage is told in reverse, moving backward through time to witness key moments from the couple’s lives—their fiftieth birthday party, buying their home, Jason’s birth, the mysterious death of a work colleague—all painting a portrait of a marriage defined by a single terrible act they plotted together many years ago.

Eventually we learn the details of what Thom and Wendy did in their early twenties, a secret that has kept them bound together through the length of their marriage. But its power over them is fraying, and each of them begins to wonder if they would be better off making sure their spouse carries their secrets to the grave.]]> 288 Peter Swanson 0063433621 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.60 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.60
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]]> 217387739 From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers.

In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never show up at dinner.

At first, everyone thinks that they’re just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours click by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon, the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise.

Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella—The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths call them—come from five very different families. What led them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril or a threat to the friend group from within?

Told through multiple points of view in past and present—and marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller from Every Last Fear and The Night Shift—Parents Weekend explores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days we all remember in the dorms when our friends become our family.]]> 320 Alex Finlay 1250360722 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.68 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
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]]> 218671849 “Terrific.”—��Stephen King on��Whistle

New York Times��bestselling author Linwood Barclay enters new territory with a supernatural chiller in which a woman and her young son move to a small town looking for a fresh start, only to be haunted by disturbing events and strange visions when they find a mysterious train set in a storage shed.

Evil has a one track mind...

Annie Blunt has had an unimaginably terrible year. First, her husband was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident, then one of the children’s books she’s built her writing and illustrating career on ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal.

But Annie’s year is about to get worse.

Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed on their property. Annie is glad to see Charlie happy, but there’s something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night—she could swear she hears a train, but there isn’t an active track for miles—and bizarre things begin happening in the neighborhood. Worse, Annie can’t seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a children’s book.

Grief can do strange things to the mind, but Annie is beginning to think she’s walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying…]]> 464 Linwood Barclay 0063436035 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.13 2025
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.13
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]]> 226212159 240 Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi 9778202648 Hisham farouk 4 4.07
author: Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi
name: Hisham farouk
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]]> 222661961 - هارلان كوبن

"فيتزيك هو بلا شك أحد أكثر الروائيين إثارة للإعجاب في عالم الجريمة".
- كارين سلاتر

"رواية إثارة ألمانية رائعة".
- ديلي تلغراف


لا شهود، لا آثار، لا جثة.
جوزي، ابنة الطبيب النفسي الشهير فيكتور لارينز البالغة من العمر اثني عشر عامًا، تختفي في ظروف غامضة، ولا يزال مصيرها مجهولًا!
بعد أربع سنوات من اختفائها، ينسحب فيكتور إلى جزيرة نائية للتعامل مع مأساته. هناك يلتقي بامرأة غامضة تُدْعَى آنا تطلب منه علاجها من مرض الفصام. تبدأ الأحداث بالتشابك عندما تروي آنا قصصًا تتقاطع مع أحداث اختفاء جوزي، إن احتمالية الكشف عن الحقيقة تغري فيكتور بأن يصبح معالجًا لآنا. مع عودة الماضي إلى النور، أصبحت جلساتهم وعواقبها أكثر رعبًا.]]> 352 Sebastian Fitzek 977961317X Hisham farouk 5 4.24 2006
author: Sebastian Fitzek
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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رواية تحفة و ترجمة ممتازة . من نوعية الروايات اللي هتخليك لازم تخلصها بسرعة علشان تعرف أيه اللي حصل و ايه النهاية . انت عارف ان في حاجه غلط بس مش متاكد هو اللي في بالك و الا في نهاية تانيه . استمتعت بقرائتها
]]> 220161593 In this follow-up to #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware’s multi-million copy mega-hit The Women in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe.

When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.

The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.

What follows is a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe, forcing Lo to ask herself just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save this woman…and if she can even trust her?]]> 400 Ruth Ware 1668025620 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.82 2025
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]]> 223468001 «لا أشعر بالأسى تجاه الفرص التي أهدرتها، يكلل الامتعاض نظرتي للفرص التي أهدرتني، كنت أدخر لها أفضل مما حصَّلَته بطريقتها... خسارة.
لا أعترف بسوء الحظ، وأرى أن كل ما عشته هو الأمثل بالنسبة لقدراتي، وأتقبل وجهة نظر المقربين فيَّ بأنني زاهد وعدمي باعتبارها قصة نجاح، وأود بعد وفاتي أن أتبرع بجسمي للأبحاث التي تفسر الشعور بالامتنان.
هل حققت ما أحلم به؟
ربما.
لكن الأكيد أنني حققت ما لم أحلم به.»

سيرة مؤثرة وعميقة لأحد أفضل كتاب مصر المعاصرين.

عن المؤلف
عمر طاهر من مواليد صعيد مصر في منتصف السبعينيات. صدرت له العديد من الكتب الناجحة، من بينها: «بعد ما يناموا العيال»، و«من علم عبد الناصر شرب السجائر»، و«كحل وحبهان - رواية»، و«كتاب الم]]> 112 عمر طاهر 9779603158 Hisham farouk 3 4.25 2025
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]]> 60310078 178 محمد رضا عبد الله Hisham farouk 3 3.98 2021
author: محمد رضا عبد الله
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.98
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rating: 3
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]]> 226570602
طفلةٌ بريئةٌ لا يتجاوز عمرها تسع سنواتٍ، تسيطر عليها روحٌ شريرةٌ، تُطالِبُ بحقِّها في القُربانِ.

معاهدة مدنسةٌ مع العالم السفلي يجبُ دفعهَا وإلّا لقِي الجميع مصيرًا مرعبًا.

كيفَ يمكن إنقاذُ الطفلة المسكينة رغم خيانة أقربِ الناسِ إليهَا؟

بينَ الصِّراعِ مع القوَى الخفية، وخيانة أقربِ الأقربين، يصبح إنقاذ “راحيل�� أمرًا يتطلب أكثر من مجردِ شجاعةٍ أو تضحيةٍ بديلةٍ.. فهل تستطيعُ الخالةُ “مورين�� السيطرةَ على بوابة الشر الشيطانية قبل أن تفقد “راحيل�� إلى الأبدِ؟


كعادةِ الكاتِبةِ “مروَ�� جُوهـر�� تَنسُجُ لنا حبكةً سينمائيةً مليئةً بالغموضِ والرُّعبِ النفسيِّ والماديِّ، والتي تعكسُ لنا حكايةً متشابكة؛ الكلُّ فيها موضِع شكٍّ، والكلُّ لديه أطماعٌ تجلِبُ الأذَى على الجميعِ.. وفي خِضمِّ كلِّ شيءٍ تظهرُ بسالةُ بعض الشخصياتِ المحوريةِ التي تُضفِي جانبًا من الِّدراما والرومانسيةِ على حكايةٍ لَا تتكرّرُ كثيرًا في عالمِنا.]]> 208 مروى جوهر 9778064563 Hisham farouk 3 3.69 2025
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> 58320655 A dead cop. A damaged detective. A copycat killer on the loose.

When the chief suspect in the notorious Peek-a-boo cop killer case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over. But when another PC is abducted and murdered in the same deranged Peek-a-boo fashion, Bone is persuaded to return to lead the new investigation. But as Bone and his team hunt a copycat killer, and with time running out before yet another cop is slain, Bone’s terrifying past returns to tear open old wounds and push him to very edge of the abyss.

Can DCI Bone end the killing before the killing ends him?

Set among the dramatic hills and glens of Scotland's Campsie Fells, Dark is the Grave is the first in a series of edge-of-your-seat crime thrillers that will keep you guessing right up to the nail-biting, heart-stopping climax.

Perfect for fans of JD Kirk, Alex Smith, David J. Gatward and J.E. Mayhew.]]> 208 T.G. Reid Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.20 2021
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]]> 219235409 One night in the woods
A party gone wrong
A body discovered at sunrise

He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress ��
��
Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don’t sing and a girl in a white dress roams, luring people to their deaths. But when a girl in white is found dead the morning after Halloween, her body carefully arranged at the bottom of an old stone folly, the community is thrown into turmoil.
��
With a teenage daughter of his own, police detective Ben Chase knows how high the stakes are. Was the girl the victim of a party prank gone wrong, or does her death represent something more sinister and ritualistic?

As the investigation unfolds and the noose tightens around Chase’s own family, the only thing anyone can be sure of is that no one is safe until this violent killer is caught.]]> 419 Hannah Richell 1761421778 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.06
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]]> 62688662
How about everything...]]> 573 Stephen King 6140135419 Hisham farouk 0 3.96 2021
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> 211004893
As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them. At first, Jess thinks she understands what they're up against, but she's about to learn there's more to these surreal and grisly events than she could've ever imagined.

And that when the wolf finally comes home, none will be spared.]]> 304 Nat Cassidy 125035434X Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.42 2025
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]]> 13557691 706 Eugene Rogan Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.52 2009
author: Eugene Rogan
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.52
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]]> 29008584 انتظرت من سلبوني كل شيء
انتظرت من قتلوني ألف مرة
بما اقترفوه في حقي
انتظرت خروج من دمروا حياتي
انتظرت على الرغم من قدرتي
على قتلهم أينما وجدوا
انتظرت لأنني أردت أن أعد نفسي
انتظرت لأن الانتقام طبق يقدم بارداً]]> نسمة عاطف Hisham farouk 0 3.80
author: نسمة عاطف
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.80
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]]> 38365405 85 عمر طاهر Hisham farouk 0 4.40 2015
author: عمر طاهر
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.40
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rating: 0
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]]> 88563125
"الرجل المفقود" الرواية التي أعدَّها الكثيرون العمل الأبرز في مسيرة جين هاربر كاتبة الجريمة والإثارة المنتظر أن تتربع على عرش المملكة خلال السنوات القادمة.]]> 448 Jane Harper 9776902766 Hisham farouk 4 3.56 2018
author: Jane Harper
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> 208428736 360 Neal Shusterman 9779922660 Hisham farouk 0 4.13 2007
author: Neal Shusterman
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.13
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rating: 0
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]]> 171793386
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home.

WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?

Nobody knows. Simon’s explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn’t add up. Nina’s parents push the police for answers, and Simon’s parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits media campaign.

HOW FAR WILL HIS FAMILY GO TO KEEP HIM SAFE?

Soon, facts are lost in a swirl of accusation and counter-accusation. Everyone chooses a side, and the story goes viral, fueled by armchair investigators and wild conspiracy theories and illustrated with pretty pictures taken from Nina’s social media accounts. Journalists descend on their small Vermont town, followed by a few obsessive "fans."

HOW FAR WILL HER FAMILY GO TO GET TO THE TRUTH?

Nina’s family is under siege, but they never lose sight of the only thing that really matters—finding their daughter. Out-gunned by Simon’s wealthy, powerful family, Nina’s parents recognize that if playing by the rules won’t get them anywhere, it’s time to break them.]]> 328 Dervla McTiernan Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.05 2024
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]]> 198970962 حين تختفي الصغيرة كلارا، تنطلــــق أختها لوثيـا في سباق محمــــوم للعثور عليها. يتــــــلاقى طــــريـــــقها مـــــــع الصحفــــي الفضولي دييجو والشرطي الأعور دونوسو، والراهب براوليـــــو. يتعثرون جميعًـــا بشـــيء يقلب حيــاتهــم: خاتم ذهبــــي غــــامض علــــيه مطرقتان متقاطعتان، وهو الغرض الذي لا يمانع البعض أن يَقتل من أجله.
ببراعة مذهلة، تحوك كارمن مولا خيوط حبكة هذا العـــمل الصـادم والجــــامح، بقســــوته وظلاميتــه وطابعه الجهنمي، لتقدم إحدى أفضل روايات الإثارة التاريخية التي كُتبت بالإسبانية في السنوات الأخيرة."]]> 496 Carmen Mola 9779922482 Hisham farouk 0 3.96 2021
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.96
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rating: 0
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]]> 8713068 Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus, Interrupted and God’s Problem reveals which books in the Bible’s New Testament were not passed down by Jesus’s disciples, but were instead forged by other hands—and why this centuries-hidden scandal is far more significant than many scholars are willing to admit. A controversial work of historical reporting in the tradition of Elaine Pagels, Marcus Borg, and John Dominic Crossan, Ehrman’s Forged delivers a stunning explication of one of the most substantial—yet least discussed—problems confronting the world of biblical scholarship.

]]> 307 Bart D. Ehrman 0062012614 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.00 2011
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]]> 38355304 An extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it’s the end she’d always been told was coming.

When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.

As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life—until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play and that these samples are key to understanding the disease.

Now, as the power grid fails and the nation descends into chaos, Wynter must find a way to get the samples to a lab in Colorado. Uncertain who to trust, she takes up with former military man Chase Miller, who has his own reasons for wanting to get close to the samples in her possession, and to Wynter herself.]]> 384 Tosca Lee 1476798621 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.04 2019
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.04
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]]> 197851053 على الرغم من أن (نيل) بدأت تفقد حاسة السمع تدريجياً في عشرينياتها، إلا أنها رفضت وضع جهاز تحسين السمع. ولا تزال تعيش شمال مقاطعة (لينكولنشاير) مع زوجها وابنها. (منزل الصمت) هي روايتها الأولى.]]> 522 Nell Pattison Hisham farouk 4 3.77 2020
author: Nell Pattison
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.77
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rating: 4
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]]> 33413128
People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.

Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected.

Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.]]> 432 Fredrik Backman Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.27 2016
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name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.27
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]]> 13086970 335 Jennifer Hillier 1451664540 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.84 2012
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]]> 10088219
If he can’t have her . . .

Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology. An expert in human behavior. And when she began an affair with sexy, charming graduate student Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, riddled with guilt when they weren’t, she knows the three-month fling with her teaching assistant has to end. After all, she’s finally engaged to a kind and loving investment banker who adores her, and she’s taking control of her life. But when she attempts to end the affair, Ethan Wolfe won’t let her walk away.

. . . no one else can.

Ethan has plans for Sheila, plans that involve posting a sex video that would surely get her fired and destroy her prestigious career. Plans to make her pay for rejecting him. And as she attempts to counter his every threatening move without her colleagues or her fiancé discovering her most intimate secrets, a shattering crime rocks Puget Sound State University: a female student, a star athlete, is found stabbed to death. Someone is raising the stakes of violence, sex, and blackmail . . . and before she knows it, Sheila is caught in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with the lover she couldn’t resist—who is now the monster who won’t let her go.]]> 357 Jennifer Hillier 1451625847 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.88 2011
author: Jennifer Hillier
name: Hisham farouk
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]]> 199078071 The Body: A Guide for Occupants is an often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up. Full of anecdotes.]]> 420 Bill Bryson 9921772155 Hisham farouk 0 currently-reading 4.67 2019
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name: Hisham farouk
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]]> 218356526 لكن مع الأحداث غير المتوقعة والحبكة المتقنة في تغير مسار الرواية والبنية الدرامية التي تمزج بين الرهبة والجمال الغريب، تقدم روث وير قصة بديعة ومشوقة في روايتها «المرأة في المقصورة العاشرة».. قصة تجعل أعتى القراء متلهفون حتى طي الصفحة الأخيرة منها.]]> 423 Ruth Ware 9921772732 Hisham farouk 4 4.33 2016
author: Ruth Ware
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> 220575521 AT THE DAWN OF THE COLD WAR, A NEW BREED OF SPY IS BORN . . .

The gripping new 2025 novel from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling 'master of the wartime spy thriller' (Financial Times).
______________________

Winter, 1947. Britain's secret services have been penetrated. The country is more vulnerable than ever - and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin knows it. He decides it is time to send his master of 'Special Tasks' to create extra chaos.

But Stalin has a more important motive than mere disruption. He has a man on the inside who must be protected at all costs - a communist super-spy who has the secrets of the atomic bomb at his fingertips.

Freya Bentall, a senior MI5 officer, no longer knows who to trust and is left with one to bring in an outsider whose loyalty is beyond question - Cambridge professor Tom Wilde. His to find the traitor in MI5.

Bentall has three main suspects and Wilde must get close to them all. That means delving deep into the criminal underworld, attaching himself to the cultural elite of the arts and finding a way into the extreme reaches of British politics.

As winter bites and violence erupts, Wilde faces an uphill battle to protect those he loves from merciless killers. And he knows that one slip will spell disaster for the country - and his family.]]> Rory Clements Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 221566576
Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women's rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate's message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate's bodyguard—a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness.

Featuring a riveting cast of characters both old and new, including world-famous gospel singer Sista Bessie and an unforgettable villain addicted to murder, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion—a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off.

Thrilling, wildly fun and outrageously engrossing, Never Flinch is one of King's richest and most propulsive novels.]]> Stephen King 1399744356 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.82 2025
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]]> 186872450 A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught��up in the dark secrets and��superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man

Deadhart, Alaska. 873. Living.

In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven’t seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know who’s responsible: a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs living in an old mine settlement deep in the woods.

Detective Barbara Atkins, a specialist in vampyr killings, is called in to officially determine if this is a Colony killing—and authorize a cull. Old suspicions die hard in a town like Deadhart, but Barbara isn’t so sure. Determined to find the truth, she enlists the help of a former Deadhart sheriff, Jenson Tucker, whose investigation into the previous murder almost cost him his life. Since then, Tucker has become a recluse. But he knows the Colony better than almost anyone.

As the pair delve into the town’s history, they uncover secrets darker than they could have imagined. And then another body is found. While the snow thickens and the nights grow longer, a killer stalks Deadhart, and two disparate communities circle each other for blood. Time is running out for Atkins and Tucker to find the truth: Are they hunting a bloodthirsty monster . . . or a twisted psychopath? And which is more dangerous?]]> 336 C.J. Tudor 0593356594 Hisham farouk 0 3.85 2024
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> 123266723 158 عبدالله بوموزة Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 57669911
Sadie Nicholls has been found dead, brutally and strangely murdered, in her South East London flat. Her little boy is missing.

DI Alex Finn and DC Mattie Paulsen know that, in the case of a missing child, it's the first 24 hours that count. They don't have many left to find out where Sadie's son might be and the identity of her killer. Why would anyone want a struggling single mother, loved by many, dead?

But when they realise a similar crime was committed at the same house nearly 20 years ago, a question is on everyone's lips: is this more than just a coincidence?

This is third in Will Shindler's Finn and Paulsen series - a British detective series that ranks with Mark Billingham, M.J. Arlidge and Stuart MacBride.]]> 345 Will Shindler Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.20 2022
author: Will Shindler
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 4.20
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]]> 34098774 حين يستخدم الاقنعة البريئة كالحب والتضحية والوفاء لاخفاء ذلك القبح الذى يقود الانسان ليرتكب اعظم الخطايا على وجه الارض .. القتل ..
تلك الجريمة التى تحمل أكثر من وجه وأكثر من وسيلة كالخيانة والطمع
تلك الجريمة التى تغتال إنسانية القاتل وروحه قبل أن تريق دماء المقتول
تلك الجريمة التى ترتكب حين تنهار أسمى القيم والاخلاق الانسانية
فى تلك الرواية لن تعرف أيهما الضحية .. لن تعرف هل كان المقتول هو القاتل ، أم كان القاتل هو المقتول ، أم أن كليهما قد تفوق على ذلك الشيطان القابع داخل كابوس الاقنعة]]> 220 عمرو مرزوق Hisham farouk 4 3.90
author: عمرو مرزوق
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.90
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]]> 59654452 لأول مرة أسعد برؤيته، لعله ينهي عذابي. لكنه ظل واقفًا عند قبر أبي ينظر تجاهي، ثم وكأنما كان ينتظر أن أراه، ضرب أرض القبر بجناحه، ففاضت بالتراب كأنها عين ماء متفجرة. ثم راح يضرب برمحه ويطعن يمنة ويسرة وأسمع صرخات الشياطين الحارسة مجددًا دون أن أراها.
هل يقتلهم؟ هل تقتل الحربة الشياطين؟ لكن وسط ضرباته كان يحدق فيّ، وظلّ على هذا الحال دقائق، لا أجرؤ على الاقتراب منه ولا أفهم ماذا يريد، انحنى على الأرض وزحف على مرفقيه بطريقة الخفافيش تلك، وشعرت بشياطيني تدفع جسدي المستلقي على الأرض إلى الخلف.
توقف على بعد مترين مني وحدق إلى وجهي، لمعت - فيما أظنه وجهه - نقطتان بلون أزرق تشبهان حدقتي إنسان، ثم ذاب في الظلام]]> 170 شيرين هنائي 9776692915 Hisham farouk 4 3.73 2021
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average rating: 3.73
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كلمة الغلاف الخلفي:

لو أن غريبًا أطلَّ من سطوح البيوت الطينية بعد شروق شمس اليوم؛ لخُيِّلَ إليه أن سربًا من غربان الدُّوري قد حَطَّ على رمال السَّاحل الرَّطبة. أعناقٌ مشرئبةٌ نحو الأفق الأزرق، وعيونٌ تتحرَّى مُقبلًا يجيء من بعيد. غير أن الدِّيرة لا تعرفُ من الغِربان إلا فُرادى بغير أسراب، تتسلَّلُ إلى سفن التِّجارة الرَّاسيةِ في موانئ الهند، وتندسُّ بين زكائب التَّوابل والحبوب والشَّاي، وتسافر مع السُّفُن في أوبتها إلى الدِّيرة، فتَلفي نفسها مُتسلِّلَةً غريبةً في بلادٍ غريبة. وتمكثُ على السَّاحل الشَّرقي شهورًا تتحرَّى إبحارَ السُّفُن الشِّراعية ثانية إلى الهند.

لا غِربان في الدِّيرة. لا غِربان إلا قليل.]]> 470 سعود السنعوسي 9922867508 Hisham farouk 3 4.44
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]]> 33810264 240 محمود وهبة 9777791321 Hisham farouk 2 3.19 2017
author: محمود وهبة
name: Hisham farouk
average rating: 3.19
book published: 2017
rating: 2
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]]> 66087060 A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutch’s tail, more of the city’s residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster. . . .

But it’s all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband—suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutch’s boss.

When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they’ve built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead—secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity’s survival.

Can you resist the hand? Find an excerpt from the next Fever House novel at the end of the book.]]> 417 Keith Rosson 0593595750 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.02 2023
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]]> 207611566 There’s power in a book��

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood.

In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master�� (NPR).]]> 482 Grady Hendrix 0593548981 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.00 2025
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]]> 58486061 حدجها وكيل النيابة بنظرة ذات مغزى، ثم التفت إلى أمينة السر بجانبه قائلا:
اكتبي عندك، أمرت النيابة بحبس المتهمة هاجر حسن عفيفي أربعة أيام على ذمة القضية..."

نظرة واحدة قد تجلب الكثير من الندم، ولكن هل يمكن لتلك النظرة أن تؤدي إلى القتل؟
وهل هي جريمة هاجر؟
أم أن زورقها الوردي هو المتهم الوحيد...]]> 215 نهى داود Hisham farouk 4 3.86
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]]> 209823382
Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they've committed to her audience. She can't guarantee the police won't come after her "guests," but her show grants simultaneous anonymity and instant fame—a potent combination that's proven difficult to resist. After an episode recording, Poe usually erases both criminal and crime from her mind.

But when a strange and oddly familiar man appears on her show, Poe is forced to take a second look. Not only because he claims to be her mother's murderer from years ago, but because Poe knows something no one else does. Her mother's murderer is dead.

Poe killed him.

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Dead Girl in 2A and The New Neighbor comes a chilling new thriller that forces the question: are murderers always the bad guys?]]> 420 Carter Wilson 1464226229 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.76 2025
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]]> 211953338
Meet the Agarwals, who have gathered on a private, luxury island off the west coast of Scotland for a much-anticipated family reunion.

Raj, the patriarch and a business tycoon, is about to announce to his wife and three children the succession plan for his multimillon-dollar Delhi-based company. Shalini, the fragile matriarch, is ready to have her husband to herself after years of sacrifice to the family business. Myra, the golden child, owner of the island and host of the reunion, is, unbeknownst to her family, on the brink of bankruptcy. Aseem, the son and supposed heir, is torn between his love for his wife and his duty to family. Aisha, the youngest, a party girl whose antics are legendary, can’t pass up an opportunity to wreak havoc. And then there’s Zoe, Aseem’s wife, the outsider whose #InstaPerfect life is built on a foundation of lies.

They’ve all got secrets they would die to protect. Who will survive this high-stakes reunion, and who will become a victim of their own greed? One thing is certain: this family gathering will shatter more than just their illusions of unity.]]> 352 Trisha Sakhlecha 0593832566 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.66 2025
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]]> 213243937 An exclusive thriller writer’s retreat hosted on a private island turns lethal when one of the authors is found murdered in this twisty locked room mystery.

When renowned anonymous author J. R. Alastor hires former aspiring writer Mila del Angél to host a writing retreat at his private manor off the coast of Maine, she jumps at the chance—particularly since she has an ax to grind with one of the invitees. The guest list? Six thriller authors, all masters of deceit, misdirection, and mayhem.

Confess the crimes, survive the tropes.

Alastor and Mila have masterminded a week of games, trope-fueled riddles, and maybe a jump scare or two—the perfect cover for Mila to plot a murder of her own. But when a guest turns up dead—and it’s not the murder she planned—Mila finds herself trapped in a different narrative altogether.

One by one, you’ll lose your turn.

With a storm cutting off the island, and the body count rising, Mila must outwit a killer who knows literally every trick in the book.

Until only one of us remains��]]> 371 Ande Pliego 059387157X Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.58 2025
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]]> 196614815 A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel.

July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them.

When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find themselves in the crosshairs of the Coldlake Falls police. Unexplained murders have been happening along Atticus Line for years and the cops finally have two witnesses who easily become their only suspects. As April and Eddie start to dig into the history of the town and that horrible stretch of road to clear their names, they soon learn that there is something supernatural at work, something that could not only tear the town and its dark secrets apart, but take April and Eddie down with it all.]]> 341 Simone St. James 0593200381 Hisham farouk 4 Even with the common pattern sometime and atmosphere the stories are very nicely written and entertaining. Looking forward for the next one :)]]> 3.67 2024
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Loved it :) �� Simone st. James has very recognizable atmosphere in her novels .. crime . Moving alternating between now and back in time �� even the female lead character who is a survivor.
Even with the common pattern sometime and atmosphere the stories are very nicely written and entertaining. Looking forward for the next one :)
]]> 54030721
An outsider himself, DS George Cross is drawn to this case. The discovery of the dead man's connection to an old cold case then pulls Cross in further. Convinced this is where the answer to the murder lies, he sets about solving another that someone has spent the past fifteen years thinking they’ve got away with.

Cross�� relentless obsession with logic, detail and patterns is what makes him so irritatingly brilliant. It doesn’t exactly make him popular with colleagues or his superiors, though. He has numerous enemies in the force wanting to see him fail.

Red flags are soon raised as suspicious inconsistencies and errors in the original detective’s investigation come to light. Now retired, this ex-cop has powerful friends in the force and a long-standing dislike of Cross.

Set in picturesque Bristol in the Southwest of England, it’s not long before the city reveals its dark underbelly, in a case of intriguing twists and turns whose result astonishes even those involved.

Difficult and awkward, maybe. But Cross has the best conviction rate in Avon & Somerset Police. By far. Will this case put an end to that?]]> 360 Tim Sullivan Hisham farouk 3 4.06 2020
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average rating: 4.06
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rating: 3
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]]> 206766189 A deviously twisty novel of psychological suspense about secrets, neighbors, a need to belong, and murder by the award-winning author of The Maid’s Diary.

Socially awkward Chloe Cooper divides her time between dog walking, bartending, caring for her ailing mother, and at a safe distance, watching people and inventing the stories of their lives. Like Chloe’s new neighbors: glamorous influencer Jemma Spengler and Jemma’s husband, Adam, a renowned surgeon. They’re attractive, wealthy, and in a house of open windows, so exposed.

A move to the Pacific Northwest is supposed to be a fresh start for Jemma and Adam. It’s a renewed commitment to a marriage fractured by secrets. A chance to work through the tragic losses in their past. For Jemma, however, this new beginning also comes with an unnerving sensation that she’s being watched.

Then, on a fog-shrouded beach early in the morning, Chloe witnesses the murder of a swimmer. Her suspicions aroused, she suddenly sees her neighbors in a sinister new light. But as a detective and her partner close in, nothing is quite as it seems. Because the Spenglers are not the only ones with secrets. And Chloe isn’t the only one who’s been watching.]]> 349 Loreth Anne White 1662518919 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.96 2024
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]]> 44375176
Fifteen years after those catastrophic, career-ending events, a copycat killer has taken up the Nine Elms mantle, continuing the ghastly work of his idol.

Enlisting her brilliant research assistant, Tristan Harper, Kate draws on her prodigious and long-neglected skills as an investigator to catch a new monster. But there's much more than her reputation on the line: Kate was the original killer's intended fifth victim . . . and his successor means to finish the job.]]> 392 Robert Bryndza 1542005698 Hisham farouk 4 4.06 2019
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average rating: 4.06
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rating: 4
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حلم واحد كان يلاحق مكرم؛ الأستاذ في جامعة هارفارد، أن يلتقي كل عرب المهجر في موضع واحد. كان يحلم بدولة واحدة يجتمع فيها العرب بعدما تشتتوا في العالم، هناك لن يضطهدهم أحد ولن يخيفهم أحد. سوف تكون دولة قوية لأنها ستمزج بين ما تعلموه في كل الحضارات.

بأسلوبه المتفرد، يصطحبنا د. أحمد خالد توفيق في روايته الجديدة " شآبيب" إلى رحلة ممتعة مليئة بالإثارة من النرويج إلى الولايات المتحدة، مرورا بليبيريا ومصر وأستراليا، قبل أن يستقر عند خط الاستواء. يطرح العديد من الأفكار الجريئة ليظل السؤال: هل يمكن لرجل واحد أن يُصلح العالم، حتى لو كان يؤمن بأنه الشخص المناسب الذي جاء في الزمن المناسب ليقوم بالمهمة المناسبة؟]]> 329 أحمد خالد توفيق 9770934569 Hisham farouk 2 للأسف الرواية معجبتنيش خالص . فكرة لطيفة تنفع في رأيي قصة قصيرة فقط . هيفضل القراءة لدكتور أحمد من أفضل الحاجات اللي حصلتلي في شبابي بس شآبيب لا ]]> 3.79 2018
author: أحمد خالد توفيق
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average rating: 3.79
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rating: 2
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احتفظت بالرواية فترة طويلة لإن فكرة ان دي قد تكون آخر حاجة اقرأها لدكتور أحمد خالد كانت فكرة مزعجة جدا . كنت محتفظ بيها زي اللي معاه شيكولاتة حلوة جدا نادرة و مش عاوز يأكلها إلا في احسن وقت أو متعلق بفكرة ان مهما حصل أنا عندي حاجة حلوة خاصة جدا ممكن تلجأ ليها في اي وقت علشان تستمتع .
للأسف الرواية معجبتنيش خالص . فكرة لطيفة تنفع في رأيي قصة قصيرة فقط . هيفضل القراءة لدكتور أحمد من أفضل الحاجات اللي حصلتلي في شبابي بس شآبيب لا
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​Thus begins one of the most unique tales that master storyteller Stephen King has ever written—a sprawling fantasy of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power that utterly transforms the destinies of two brothers born into royalty. Through this enthralling masterpiece of mythical adventure, intrigue, and terror, you will thrill to this unforgettable narrative filled with relentless, wicked enchantment, and the most terrible of secrets…]]> 427 Stephen King Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.95 1984
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]]> 10585 896 Stephen King 8497597729 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.84 1994
author: Stephen King
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]]> 10567 Where were you on October 1st at 3:03 pm?

Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.

And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...]]> 449 Stephen King 1416524517 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.67 2006
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مرحبًا بك في بلدة ديري الشمالية في ولاية مين. إنها مدينة صغيرة عادية تمامًا كمسقط رأسك، لكن في ديري ثمَّة شيءٍ مُريع يستتر خلف هذا الشعور بالأُلفة

كانوا سبعة أطفال عندما تعثَّروا في هذا الكابوس. الآن هم رجال ونساء بالغون خرجوا إلى العالم الواسع سعيًا وراء النجاح والسعادة. لكن الوعد القديم الذي قطعوه على أنفسهم منذ ثمانية وعشرين عامًا ينجح في لمِّ شملهم وإعادتهم إلى المكان الذي صارعوا فيه الكيان الشرير النَّهم الذي يتغذَّى على أطفال المدينة. لقد بدأت حوادث القتل من جديد، والآن، بدأت ذكريات سبعتهم المقموعة عن الصيف المروِّع الذي قضوه في ديري تعود إليهم وهم يستعدِّون مرَّةً أخرى لمواجهة الوحش الذي يتَّخذ مجارير ديري عرينًا له

يعرف قُرَّاء ستيڤن كينغ أن لديري قبضة قويَّة ومُظلمة على مُخيِّلة الرَّجُل. لقد ظهرت في كُتُبٍ كثيرة له، من ضمنها صائد الأحلام، وحقيبة العظام، وقلوب في أتلانتس، و63/22/11.. لكن البداية كانت مع: الشَّيء

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قيل عن الرواية

معلم بارز في الأدب الأمريكي - جريدة شيكاجو صن تايمز

أنضج عمل روائي لستيڤن كينغ - جريدة سانت بطرسبرج تايمز

ستستحوذ رواية الشَّيءُ عليك... إن الشخوص فيها من لحم ودم وستُشعرك أنك تقرأ عن نفسك... لا تقرأها إلا في غُرفة مُضاءة جيِّدًا - جريدة لوس أنچلوس تايمز

ملك الرُعب بلا مُنزاع - مجلة تايم

أوديسا خلَّابة من الرُّعب الخالص... كينغ يكتب كأنه ممسوس، ولا يخدع القارئ أبدًا، ودائمًا ما يخلق صورة شاملة لعالمٍ مُتكامل... إنه عبقري، وسوداوي، وشرير �� جريدة واشنطن بوست

نموذج مثالي لبراعة كينغ... دُرَّة تاج أعمال الرُّعب... نظرة واحدة على الصفحات القليلة الأولى لن تجعلك قادرًا على ترك الكتاب - جريدة سانت لويس بوست ديسباتش

كتاب مُخيف ورائع... رحلة ملاهي كابوسية... ستُثلِّج أطرافك بكفاءة أكثر من ثلَّاجة طعام... الشَّيءُ هي خلاصة الخوف من الوحوش داخنا جميعًا، ذلك الخوف الذي يأبى مُغادرتنا - سان فرانسيسكو كرونيكل

ملحمية... عملاقة... مُترعة بإثارة مُتسارعة قاطعة للأنفاس... كينغ أفضل حكَّاء أمريكي �� جريدة لوس أنچلوس هيرالد إكسامينر

مُتعة شريرة... مهرجان من القشعريرة والرجفات قديمة الطراز... مُخيفة كأفضل الكُتُب في هذا الضرب من الأدب - كانساس سيتي ستار

مشروع كينغ الأكثر طموحًا... ستقرأها في سُعار جنوني كأنها كُتبت بنارٍ حامية �� جريدة سان خوزيه ميركري نيوز

واجبة القراءة - جريدة فورتورث ستار تليجرام]]> 1452 Stephen King Hisham farouk 0 4.10 1986
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]]> 212375021 Three women. Three smouldering secrets. Who will make it out alive?

It’s 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in �� she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this?

Rewind eleven months: Margot, a faded TV star, and her long-suffering friend Anna watch as glamorous Liv and her flawless family move into their street. The three women soon fabricate the perfect pretence of friendship, but each harbours her own deadly secret �� and newcomer Liv senses something is terribly wrong beneath the polished exteriors.

As cracks widen in the veneer of perfection and lies escalate out of control, tension ignites. Bonfire Night is approaching and someone is set to burn…But who will it be?]]> 385 John Marrs 166250649X Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.95 2025
author: John Marrs
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]]> 198396628 On a beautiful summer's day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore.

Less than sixty seconds later, she checks to see where they are.
The boat is drifting in the middle of the lake. It's empty.

Sarah's family have completely vanished.

One killer...
At the Skyline Casino in London, the security team have just made a headline-grabbing they've spotted and detained a man suspected of murdering a high roller.

After locking him in one of their holding cells, the team station themselves outside and wait for the police. But when the cops arrive, they find something impossible.

The killer is no longer inside the cell.

Two detectives...

David Raker is an expert at solving missing persons puzzles - but these mysteries are unlike anything he's ever seen.

As he digs into the Fowler's, his long-time ally - ex-detective, Colm Healy - tries to get to the bottom of what happened at the casino.

But the men are in danger. Because, buried in the shadows of both cases, is a deadly secret that was never meant to come out...]]> 400 Tim Weaver 1405953020 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.40 2024
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]]> 209208960 She lies on the floor, her blue eyes wide and unseeing, arms outstretched as if begging for help. Kneeling next to her, wearing a purple sequinned ballgown and holding a knife in shaking hands, is her daughter��

In a quiet kitchen, where two mugs wait by the kettle to be filled, Sheryl Hawne lies in a pool of blood. Her only daughter, Katie, is found at her side, still clutching the murder weapon and apparently incapable of speech. To Detective Kim Stone, the case seems open and shut. But Katie is in no state to be questioned, so Kim and the team must dig deep to understand what triggered this brutal act.

Soon, they learn that Katie participated in beauty pageants as a child, and her mother kept a shrine to her achievements. As Kim gazes at the golden trophies and shiny rosettes, she is forced to wonder if this was what set Katie on the path to murder��

But then Kim receives a shocking call. Another woman is dead. And with Katie safely locked up, she cannot be the killer. The second victim also entered her daughter in pageants, and a broken tiara is found thrust down her throat. Someone clearly feels that these mothers are guilty �� and that they deserve to die. Forcing back the memories of her own monstrous mother, Kim vows to find justice for these women, no matter what pain they caused.

Now more than a day behind their killer, Kim races to learn more about a competitive world where appearances are everything and mothers will go to any lengths to ensure their daughters triumph. Buried somewhere in this dark past is the key to unlocking the case�� but will Kim be able to find it before another family is destroyed forever?

The twentieth book in the international, multi-million-copy bestselling series, Guilty Mothers will have you glued to the pages. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Val McDermid and Robert Dugoni will devour this gripping crime thriller.]]> 364 Angela Marsons 1835255264 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.50
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]]> 206005312
My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.

So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection.

THE MAGICIAN

THE ASSISTANT

THE EXECUTIVE

THE HYPNOTIST

THE IDENTICAL TWIN

THE COUNSELLOR

THE TECH

My clues are even more abstract: A suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. And an advent calendar. Because, you know, it’s Christmas.

If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it.

After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn’t it?]]> 175 Benjamin Stevenson 0063412861 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 3.70 2024
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]]> 195790650 Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods in this nail-biter of a thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark.

Legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson can’t believe her luck when a skilled builder just happens to show up after she purchases land near Prentiss Pond. All Mark Redmond asks in return for building Josie’s dream cabin is that he be left alone to homeschool his 12-year-old daughter, Cady.

For Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch, the intensity of Redmond's secretiveness is troubling, especially in light of suspicious criminal activity being reported around the area―including rumors of an armed man offering large sums of money in exchange for the location of Redmond and Cady. Josie, though hesitant to violate the trust of her prized builder, eventually agrees to fly Mike and his father-in-law Charley Stevens to the secluded pond in an attempt to protect Redmond and Cady. But hours after landing, the trip takes a dark turn when they witness a horrific murder and are taken captive themselves.

Freeing himself, Mike is forced to set off through the impenetrable Maine forest towards Canada, alone and unarmed in pursuit of a mysterious fugitive. As he navigates a windblown landscape choked with deadfalls and blocked by swollen streams, he marvels at his enemy’s bush craft. The killer possesses skills surpassing his own, and Bowditch can't tell if he is the cat or the mouse in this dangerous game. Can Mike Bowditch stop his adversary in time to save the life of a young girl, or will he be forced to watch another innocent soul die?]]> 304 Paul Doiron 1250864429 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.05 2024
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]]> 26210508 A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everything in life, and funny as hell.�� Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To be brilliant, you have to be irrational

Why is Red Bull so popular �� even though everyone hates the taste? Why do countdown boards on platforms take away the pain of train delays? And why do we prefer stripy toothpaste?

We think we are rational creatures. Economics and business rely on the assumption that we make logical decisions based on evidence.

But we aren’t, and we don’t.

In many crucial areas of our lives, reason plays a vanishingly small part. Instead we are driven by unconscious desires, which is why placebos are so powerful. We are drawn to the beautiful, the extravagant and the absurd �� from lavish wedding invitations to tiny bottles of the latest fragrance. So if you want to influence people’s choices you have to bypass reason. The best ideas don’t make rational sense: they make you feel more than they make you think.

Rory Sutherland is the Ogilvy advertising legend whose TED Talks have been viewed nearly 7 million times. In his first book he blends cutting-edge behavioural science, jaw-dropping stories and a touch of branding magic, on his mission to turn us all into idea alchemists. The big problems we face every day, whether as an individual or in society, could very well be solved by letting go of logic and embracing the irrational.]]> 384 Rory Sutherland 0753556510 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.22 2019
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]]> 75352300 A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this new masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents.

It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something else is changing in the town besides the season.

Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: Strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black.

Take a bite of one of these apples and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker.

This is what happens when the townsfolk discover the secret of the orchard. Soon it seems that everyone is consumed by an obsession with the magic of the apples�� and what’s the harm, if it is making them all happier, more confident, more powerful?

And even if buried in the orchard is something else besides the seeds of this extraordinary tree: a bloody history whose roots reach back the very origins of the town.

But now the leaves are falling. The days grow darker. And a stranger has come to town, a stranger who knows Harrow’s secrets. Because it’s harvest time, and the town will soon reap what it has sown.]]> 640 Chuck Wendig 0593158741 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.07 2023
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]]> 205516316 يتذكر بول آدامز القضية جيدًا: كرابتري وضحيته أحد أصدقاء بول. استجمع بول شتات حياته ببطء مرة أخرى، ولكن الآن بدأت حالة والدته المسنة -التي تعاني الخرفَ- في التدهور. وعلى الرغم من أن كلَّ جزء منه يقاوم، فإنه قد حان الوقت للعودة إلى المنزل.
لن يمضي الكثيرُ من الوقت حتى تبدأ الأمور في السوء. يعلم بول أن المحققة أماندا بيك تحقق في جريمة قتل مُقلَّدة، هزت شوارع بلدة فيذربانك القريبة. والدته قلقة وتصرُّ على وجود شيءٍ ما في المنزل. ويطارده شخص ما. وتلك الأحداث السابقة لم تقم بشيء سوى تذكيره بأكثر الأمور المضطربة التي تخص ذاك اليوم المروع منذ خمسة وعشرين عامًا.
لم يكن الأمر يخص جريمة القتل فقط ولكن حقيقة أن تشارلي كرابتري لم يُرَ مرةً أخرى بعدها.]]> 368 Alex North 9779922873 Hisham farouk 4 4.00 2020
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]]> 54294728 She knelt down by the side of the first girl. She had to force herself to breathe as she lifted the soft white cloth covering the girl’s beautiful face��

When the body of a woman is found hanging from a tree in her front garden, rookie Detective Morgan Brookes is first on the scene. But Olivia Potter is past saving. And when her husband and daughters cannot be traced, Morgan knows there is more to this tragedy. And then she finds them. Lying huddled together in the dark basement, each of their faces covered with a small cotton cloth, their bodies cold to the touch.
But as Morgan kneels beside the family, she realises that one of the girls is still breathing. As she holds Bronte’s fragile hand in hers, begging her to hold on, she vows to find out who has done this.

Every day Morgan wakes at 4:25 AM, her old insomnia now mixed with a new fixation on the case. But every clue about the murdered family leads to a dead end. Until, trawling through old files, she discovers a link to a cold case from years ago. Another family was murdered in this house, and the killer was never caught.
When Morgan returns to the scene of the crime to discover more about this forgotten case, she finds another body.

With Bronte still unconscious in hospital, Morgan must act fast to solve this case and lay two families to rest, before the killer returns for the girl left alive…]]> 306 Helen Phifer Hisham farouk 3 4.20 2020
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]]> 216223604 The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed.

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard.

She never arrives at her destination.

Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.

But something isn’t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn’t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.

And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself—and her unborn child.

A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone.
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]]> 206822401 230 حسين السيد 9778172846 Hisham farouk 2 3.20
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]]> 62366977 Five shocking murders
Twenty-five years ago, DCI Harry Rhimes arrested Andrew Streeter for the brutal murders of five young people. Streeter’s ‘kill list�� of victims was found in his home, and he was convicted of all five crimes.

A legacy under threat
Now, Streeter’s convictions are being overturned, as new evidence implies the original investigation was corrupt. No one is more shocked that DI Henley. Because this case is personal; Rhimes was her old boss, and he’s no longer alive to defend himself. But when the killings start up again, Henley must face the truth: Rhimes got it wrong twenty-five years ago.

A hunt for a killer
Henley and her team reopen the original murder cases, but they must put their personal feelings to one side. Because the real killer is still out there, and he’s working his way through a new kill list . . .]]> 400 Nadine Matheson Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.19 2024
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]]> 123212317 There are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create.

Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released.

Duchess is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Her mother, Star, grew up with Walk and Vincent. Walk is in overdrive trying to protect them, but Vincent and Star seem bent on sliding deeper into self-destruction. Star always burned bright, but recently that light has dimmed, leaving Duchess to parent not only her mother but her five-year-old brother. At school the other kids make fun of Duchess―her clothes are torn, her hair a mess. But let them throw their sticks, because she’ll throw stones. Rules are for other people. She’s just trying to survive and keep her family together.

A fortysomething-year-old sheriff and a thirteen-year-old girl may not seem to have a lot in common. But they both have come to expect that people will disappoint you, loved ones will leave you, and if you open your heart it will be broken. So when trouble arrives with Vincent King, Walk and Duchess find they will be unable to do anything but usher it in, arms wide closed.

Chris Whitaker has written an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating, with flashes of humor and hope throughout, it is ultimately an inspiring tale of how the human spirit prevails and how, in the end, love―in all its different guises―wins.]]> 527 Chris Whitaker 9920657530 Hisham farouk 0 4.06 2020
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]]> 203019740 From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that spans decades.

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.

When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy with one eye, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.

Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession, and the blinding light of hope.]]> 608 Chris Whitaker 0593798872 Hisham farouk 0 to-read 4.23 2024
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