Rishabh's bookshelf: read en-US Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:13:01 -0800 60 Rishabh's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)]]> 60556912
Every day I clean the Winchesters� beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out� and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of�

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!]]>
329 Freida McFadden 1803144378 Rishabh 0 to-read 4.31 2022 The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
author: Freida McFadden
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]> 8499408 F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great voices in the history of American literature, is best known today for his novels, but during his lifetime his fame stemmed primarily from his prolific achievements as one of America's most gifted short story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is one of his most memorable creations.

"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man whois born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a time traveler's tale of the people and places Benjamin Button bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Included in this volume is F. Scott Fitzgerald's provocative story, as well as Eric Roth's stunning screenplay, a bold re-imagining of this classic tale.

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224 F. Scott Fitzgerald 1616882980 Rishabh 0 to-read 3.62 1922 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1922
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Rishabh 0 to-read, classic 3.95 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
author: Jules Verne
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1872
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)]]> 754713 242 Arthur Conan Doyle 0755334434 Rishabh 0 4.26 1917 His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1917
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe]]> 403517 1026 Edgar Allan Poe 0679600078 Rishabh 0 to-read, classic, mystery 4.39 1849 The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1849
rating: 0
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Origin (Robert Langdon, #5) 32307358 This an alternate cover for B01LY7FD0D

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement--the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever." The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon's first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.

As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch's precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret.

Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain's Royal Palace itself . . . and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch's shocking discovery . . . and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us. Origin is stunningly inventive--Dan Brown's most brilliant and entertaining novel to date]]>
482 Dan Brown Rishabh 0 to-read, mystery 3.87 2017 Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
author: Dan Brown
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]>
182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Rishabh 0 to-read, classic 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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Sidney Sheldon's The Phoenix 52100019
A deadly enemy will rise again....

Ella Praeger has always felt like an outsider. So when she is called to join the ranks of The Group, a force for good operating in the shadows, her world shifts. She is gifted a purpose - and a dangerous legacy.

Years ago, The Group rid the world of one of its most powerful criminal masterminds. Yet when a child washes up on a beach in Greece, a mysterious symbol tattooed on its heel, it is a clear warning: impossibly, Athena Petridis has returned to reclaim her empire.

Ella's connection to Athena is deeply personal. Thrown into an underworld of treachery and corruption, and haunted by the tragedies of her own past, Ella is reborn as an agent, chasing a villain risen from the ashes. But only one of them can fulfil their destiny....
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432 Tilly Bagshawe 0008229686 Rishabh 3 crime, mystery, 3-star 3.29 Sidney Sheldon's The Phoenix
author: Tilly Bagshawe
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.29
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rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/31
date added: 2024/01/31
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<![CDATA[One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)]]> 58679358 On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.
Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.
Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app.

Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn't an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he'd planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who's still on the loose?

Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.]]>
416 Karen M. McManus 0593565371 Rishabh 3 crime, mystery 3.87 2017 One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
author: Karen M. McManus
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/02
date added: 2024/01/02
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The Shipping News 7354
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
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337 Annie Proulx 0743225422 Rishabh 0 to-read, classic 3.88 1993 The Shipping News
author: Annie Proulx
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Beyond The Looking Glass: Fantasy Short Stories - Book 1]]> 157072984 53 Saurin Desai Rishabh 0 to-read 4.50 Beyond The Looking Glass: Fantasy Short Stories - Book 1
author: Saurin Desai
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.50
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Hate List 8175604
Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.]]>
413 Jennifer Brown Rishabh 3 3-star, romance, young-adult 3.98 2009 Hate List
author: Jennifer Brown
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2013/12/09
date added: 2023/03/23
shelves: 3-star, romance, young-adult
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)]]> 3 309 J.K. Rowling 0439554934 Rishabh 5 4.47 1997 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 2014/05/06
date added: 2022/12/07
shelves: fantasy, young-adult, adventure, classic, 5-star, a-good-read
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<![CDATA[The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Complete]]> 6070552 632 Leonardo da Vinci Rishabh 0 to-read 4.22 1519 The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Complete
author: Leonardo da Vinci
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1519
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory]]> 15818163 New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, who delivered the late beloved author’s brilliance in Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness, is back with a stunning tale of duplicity and vengeance in Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory.

The members of the formidable and captivating De Vere family of London live enviable lives in the world’s most powerful and desirable places, from London’s poshest neighborhoods to influential boardrooms. But when old secrets begin to unravel and threaten everything the De Veres have worked for, the ramifications are deadly.

Bagshawe upholds Sheldon’s legacy with a blistering story of revenge, passion, and betrayal in a book that is quintessential Sheldon.]]>
393 Tilly Bagshawe 0062073427 Rishabh 4 3.80 2013 Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory
author: Tilly Bagshawe
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August]]> 18295861 416 Claire North 0316399612 Rishabh 0 to-read, fantasy 3.93 2014 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
author: Claire North
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/04/11
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<![CDATA[Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow]]> 37658229 New York Times Bestselling Author

Sweeping from Mexico City to the dark underbelly of LA, The Silent Widow has all the trademark glamour, suspense and unexpected twists of a classic Sidney Sheldon novel.

A young American au pair, Charlotte Clancy, vanishes without a trace in Mexico City. The case is left cold, but its legacy will be devastating.

A decade later, LA is shaken by a spate of violent murders. Psychologist Nikki Roberts is the common link between the victims, her patients at the heart of this treacherous web. When someone makes an attempt on Nikki’s life, it’s clear she is a marked woman.

Nikki makes a living out of reading people, drawing out their secrets, but the key to this shocking pattern eludes her. With the police at a dead end Nikki drafts in Derek Williams, a PI who isn’t afraid to put his hand into the hornet’s nest. Williams was thwarted in the notorious Charlotte Clancy case all those years ago, but what he unearths in LA � and the mention of one name in particular � leaves him cold, and takes him on a dangerous path into the past.

A shadowy manipulator has brought his deadly game to the streets of LA. In a crime spanning generations, it seems Nikki Roberts knows all too much � and a ruthless killer knows the price of her silence.

In this crooked city, where enemies and friends are one and the same, Nikki must be the master of her own escape . . .

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449 Tilly Bagshawe Rishabh 5 5-star 3.78 2018 Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow
author: Tilly Bagshawe
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2021/03/24
date added: 2021/03/24
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Jerusalem (Jerusalem, #1) 4060928 236 Selma Lagerlöf 1934648469 Rishabh 0 to-read, classic 3.50 1901 Jerusalem (Jerusalem, #1)
author: Selma Lagerlöf
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1901
rating: 0
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Behind Closed Doors 29437949
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.

Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.

Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.]]>
293 B.A. Paris 1250121000 Rishabh 0 to-read 3.96 2016 Behind Closed Doors
author: B.A. Paris
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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Dracula 17245 You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.]]>
488 Bram Stoker 0393970124 Rishabh 0 to-read 4.02 1897 Dracula
author: Bram Stoker
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1897
rating: 0
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The English Patient 11713 320 Michael Ondaatje 0771068719 Rishabh 0 3.88 1992 The English Patient
author: Michael Ondaatje
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/02/23
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The Silent Patient 40097951
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]>
336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 Rishabh 2 2-star, crime, mystery 4.17 2019 The Silent Patient
author: Alex Michaelides
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2021/01/05
date added: 2021/01/05
shelves: 2-star, crime, mystery
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Wuthering Heights 12658907 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0140430016.

'Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.' So Emily Brontë appeared in the eyes of her sister, Charlotte. Her one novel, Wuthering Heights, published a year before her death in 1848 at the age of thirty, similarly stands alone as perhaps the most passionately original work in the English language. This dark, unforgettable story of Catherine Earnshaw and the swarthy Heathcliff 'is moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath', and Emily Brontë records the progress of their love with such truth, imagination, and emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.]]>
374 Emily Brontë Rishabh 0 4.07 1847 Wuthering Heights
author: Emily Brontë
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1847
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)]]> 51633925
Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategize and build his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles, all the while looking over his shoulder � as an officer of the court he is an instant target.

Mickey knows he's been framed. Now, with the help of his trusted team, he has to figure out who has plotted to destroy his life and why. Then he has to go before a judge and jury and prove his innocence.]]>
432 Michael Connelly 0316485624 Rishabh 0 to-read 4.25 2008 The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)
author: Michael Connelly
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/11/22
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Les Misérables 24283
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.]]>
334 Victor Hugo 0449300021 Rishabh 0 to-read, classic 4.29 1862 Les Misérables
author: Victor Hugo
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1862
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I]]> 866238 Arthur Conan Doyle 9626341521 Rishabh 0 to-read, classic, mystery 4.15 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.15
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<![CDATA[The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)]]> 162823 'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'

In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police and provide readers with the thrill of the chase.

These mysteries - involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lions Mane; a creeping man and the three-gabled house - all test the bravery of Dr Watson and the brilliant mind of Mr Sherlock Homes, the greatest detective we have ever known.

Contains 12 stories published 1921�1927.
* "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" (1921)
* "The Problem of Thor Bridge" (1922)
* "The Adventure of the Creeping Man" (1923)
* "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" (1924)
* "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" (1924)
* "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" (1924)
* "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (1926)
* "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (1926)
* "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" (1926)
* "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman" (1926)
* "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger" (1927)
* "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (1927)]]>
303 Arthur Conan Doyle 1904633684 Rishabh 0 to-read 4.15 1927 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1927
rating: 0
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An Anonymous Girl 39863515
Dr. Shields seems to know what Jess is thinking� and what she’s hiding.

Jessica’s behavior will not only be monitored, but manipulated.

Caught in a web of attraction, deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly.

From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl will keep you riveted through the last shocking twist.]]>
375 Greer Hendricks 1250133734 Rishabh 0 to-read 3.79 2019 An Anonymous Girl
author: Greer Hendricks
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/24
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The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 892295 1512 Arthur Conan Doyle 0517502917 Rishabh 0 4.59 1927 The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.59
book published: 1927
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/07
shelves: to-read, classic, mystery, crime
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The Warren Buffett Way 17720477 The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind Buffett's spectacular success. The new edition updates readers on the latest investments by Buffett. And, more importantly, it draws on the new field of behavioral finance to explain how investors can overcome the common obstacles that prevent them from investing like Buffett.

New material includes:


How to think like a long-term investor - just like Buffett Why "loss aversion", the tendency of most investors to overweight the pain of losing money, is one of the biggest obstacles that investors must overcome. Why behaving rationally in the face of the ups and downs of the market has been the key to Buffett's investing success Analysis of Buffett's recent acquisition of H.J. Heinz and his investment in IBM stock The greatest challenge to emulating Buffett is not in the selection of the right stocks, Hagstrom writes, but in having the fortitude to stick with sound investments in the face of economic and market uncertainty. The new edition explains the psychological foundations of Buffett's approach, thus giving readers the best roadmap yet for mastering both the principles and behaviors that have made Buffett the greatest investor of our generation.]]>
320 Robert G. Hagstrom 1118503252 Rishabh 0 to-read 4.24 1994 The Warren Buffett Way
author: Robert G. Hagstrom
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/12/20
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Bloodline 300225
Roffe and Sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. At its head was one of the wealthiest men in the world, a man who has just died in a mysterious accident and left his only daughter, Elizabeth, in control of the company. Now as this intelligent, tough, and beautiful young woman dares to save -- not sell -- Roffe and Sons, she will have to outwit those who secretly want her power, and the unknown assassin who wants her life.]]>
409 Sidney Sheldon 1568650949 Rishabh 3 mystery, romance, crime 3.86 1977 Bloodline
author: Sidney Sheldon
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1977
rating: 3
read at: 2018/11/27
date added: 2018/11/27
shelves: mystery, romance, crime
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<![CDATA[Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot, #16)]]> 121646
Are you ready for a question about each of the stories? How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And who destroyed the "eternal triangle" of love involving renowned beauty, Valentine Chantry?

Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases: 1. Murder in the Mews, 2. The Incredible Theft, 3. Dead Man's Mirror, and 4. Triangle at Rhodes. Each of them is a miniature classic of characterization, incident, and suspense.

Listening length: 4 hrs. 26 mins.]]>
5 Agatha Christie 1572702842 Rishabh 3 3.82 1937 Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot, #16)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1937
rating: 3
read at: 2018/10/13
date added: 2018/10/14
shelves: 3-star, classic, crime, mystery
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<![CDATA[The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)]]> 639787
There's no lack of suspects: his wife, whose dagger served as the weapon, his embittered son, who would have killed for independence, and his mistress who refused to be ignored. Each felt deserving of the dead man's fortune. The police think they've found the culprit. But Poirot has his doubts. Why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the coat pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically-murdered corpse.

Librarian's note: the first 5 Christie mysteries featuring Poirot are: 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; and 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928. There are many short stories and a collection featuring Poirot in this period as well. Each novel and short story has its own entry on ŷ.]]>
228 Agatha Christie 0425067947 Rishabh 3 3.82 1923 The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1923
rating: 3
read at: 2018/07/02
date added: 2018/08/01
shelves: next-change, classic, crime, mystery, 3-star
review:

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<![CDATA[Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)]]> 16424
Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. Recently, she has narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. Something like a bullet! It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with poor Nick, but who? And, what is the motive? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And, this time, Nick may not escape with her life.]]>
287 Agatha Christie 0007119305 Rishabh 3 classic, crime, mystery 4.00 1932 Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1932
rating: 3
read at: 2018/06/16
date added: 2018/06/16
shelves: classic, crime, mystery
review:

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The Woman in the Window 40389527
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.

What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.]]>
455 A.J. Finn Rishabh 0 to-read, mystery 3.94 2018 The Woman in the Window
author: A.J. Finn
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/06/08
shelves: to-read, mystery
review:

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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas 7494
James Patterson has written a love story!--a powerfully moving and suspenseful novel about families, loss, new love, and hope.

Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker--everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.

This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby son, Nicholas. In it she pours out her heart about how she and the boy's father met, about her hopes for marriage and family, and about the unparalleled joy that having a baby has brought into her life. As Katie reads this touching document, it becomes clear that the lover who has just left her is the husband and father in this young family. She reads on, filled with terror and hope, as she struggles to understand what has happened--and whether her new love has a prayer of surviving.

Written with James Patterson's perfect pitch for emotion and suspense, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas captures beautifully the joys of a new family as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. This is an unforgettable love story, at once heartbreaking and full of hope.]]>
289 James Patterson 0446611085 Rishabh 0 mystery, romance, to-read 4.17 2001 Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
author: James Patterson
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2001
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/06/04
shelves: mystery, romance, to-read
review:

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<![CDATA[Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)]]> 16352 Book 7.5 of 38: Hercule Poirot

Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time...

An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion's occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip 'twix his low lips.]]>
304 Charles Osborne 0312970072 Rishabh 3 3.62 1998 Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)
author: Charles Osborne
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1998
rating: 3
read at: 2018/06/02
date added: 2018/06/01
shelves: classic, crime, mystery, 3-star
review:

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<![CDATA[Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)]]> 16307
That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence.' But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer!]]>
336 Agatha Christie 0007120680 Rishabh 3 3.56 1969 Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1969
rating: 3
read at: 2018/05/27
date added: 2018/05/29
shelves: crime, mystery, classic, 3-star, a-good-read
review:

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<![CDATA[This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7)]]> 29241855
In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game?
Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnus opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job.

Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman Bank after Hakim Bishara resigns for personal reasons. Sebastian and his wife Samantha's talented daughter, Jessica, is expelled from the Slade School of Fine Art, but her aunt Grace comes to her rescue.

Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees another opportunity to clear her debts and finally trump the Cliftons and the Barringtons.

In a devastating twist, tragedy engulfs the Clifton family when one of them receives a shocking diagnosis that will throw all their lives into turmoil.]]>
416 Jeffrey Archer Rishabh 5 5-star, a-good-read, mystery 4.29 2016 This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7)
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2018/04/07
date added: 2018/04/08
shelves: 5-star, a-good-read, mystery
review:

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<![CDATA[Cometh the Hour (The Clifton Chronicles, #6)]]> 25671861 Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.

Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy?

Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot.

Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings.

Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.

Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels - which were all New York Times bestsellers - showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.]]>
404 Jeffrey Archer 1466867507 Rishabh 5 5-star, a-good-read, mystery 4.11 2016 Cometh the Hour (The Clifton Chronicles, #6)
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/25
date added: 2018/04/08
shelves: 5-star, a-good-read, mystery
review:

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<![CDATA[Mightier Than the Sword (The Clifton Chronicles, #5)]]> 21853645
A bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV Buckingham have lost their lives? You will find out only if you read the opening chapter of Mightier than the Sword.
When Harry arrives in New York, his publisher Harold Guinzberg tells him he has been elected as the next president of English PEN, which will give him the opportunity to launch a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who is languishing in a Russian Gulag in Siberia. His crime, writing a book Uncle Joe, which gives an insight into what it was like to work for Josef Stalin. So determined is he to see Babakov released, Harry puts his own life in danger.

Emma Clifton, now Chairman of Barrington Shipping, is having to face the repercussions of the IRA bombing her ship.
Some board members feel she should resign while others, including Sebastian Clifton, newly elected to the board, are determined to see she remains as Chairman.

Giles Barrington is now a Minister of the Crown, and looks set for high office, but a trip to East Germany does not end as a diplomatic success, and once again Giles' political career is thrown off balance by none other than Major Alex Fisher. Fisher decides to stand against Giles at the forthcoming general election. But this time who wins?

Sebastian Clifton asks his girlfriend Samantha to marry him. She happily accepts, but then later changes her mind after she discovers what Seb has been up to behind her back.

The book ends with two court trials: one at the high court in London, a libel case pitting Emma Clifton against Lady Virginia Fenwick; while another, a show trial, takes place in Russia after Harry has been arrested as a spy. Thus continues book five of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer's most accomplished work to date, with all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the most successful authors in the world.

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400 Jeffrey Archer 1250034515 Rishabh 5 5-star, a-good-read, mystery 4.09 2015 Mightier Than the Sword (The Clifton Chronicles, #5)
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/20
date added: 2018/04/08
shelves: 5-star, a-good-read, mystery
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<![CDATA[Be Careful What You Wish For (The Clifton Chronicles, #4)]]> 18404285
Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?
When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.

Back in London, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica's future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice.

Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle's first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher? And with that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Be Careful What You Wish For showcases the master storyteller's talent as never before � when the Clifton and Barrington families march forward into the sixties, in this epic tale of love, revenge, ambition and betrayal.

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387 Jeffrey Archer 1250034485 Rishabh 5 5-star, a-good-read, mystery 4.03 2014 Be Careful What You Wish For (The Clifton Chronicles, #4)
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/17
date added: 2018/04/08
shelves: 5-star, a-good-read, mystery
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<![CDATA[Best Kept Secret (The Clifton Chronicles, #3)]]> 15793074
1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor’s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington.

Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father’s office on the night he was killed.

When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma’s son, who ultimately influences his uncle’s fate.

In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family march onto the page. After Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger?]]>
373 Jeffrey Archer 125000098X Rishabh 5 5-star, a-good-read, mystery 3.94 2013 Best Kept Secret (The Clifton Chronicles, #3)
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/13
date added: 2018/04/08
shelves: 5-star, a-good-read, mystery
review:

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<![CDATA[The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles, #2)]]> 12160906 Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles.

Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy.
But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew.  An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw.  When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity.

But on landing in America, he quickly learns the mistake he has made, when he discovers what is awaiting Bradshaw in New York.  Without any way of proving his true identity, Harry Clifton is now chained to a past that could be far worse than the one he had hoped to escape.

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352 Jeffrey Archer 1250000971 Rishabh 5 5-star, a-good-read, mystery 4.04 2012 The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles, #2)
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2018/02/04
date added: 2018/04/08
shelves: 5-star, a-good-read, mystery
review:

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<![CDATA[Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)]]> 16349 335 Agatha Christie 0007120699 Rishabh 4 3.96 1938 Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1938
rating: 4
read at: 2018/03/09
date added: 2018/03/09
shelves: classic, crime, mystery, 4-star, a-good-read
review:

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<![CDATA[Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles, #1)]]> 10872085
From the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph.
The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words “I was told that my father was killed in the war.� A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he’s left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys� school, and his life will never be the same again.

As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line?

This introductory novel in Archer’s ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler’s Germany. From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of 1940 New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined.

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400 Jeffrey Archer 031253955X Rishabh 5 4.07 2011 Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles, #1)
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2018/01/23
date added: 2018/01/23
shelves: mystery, 5-star, a-good-read, crime
review:

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<![CDATA[Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)]]> 16326
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

How could this happen with the world's No. 1 private detective on board?]]>
336 Agatha Christie 000711933X Rishabh 4 3.84 1935 Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1935
rating: 4
read at: 2018/01/15
date added: 2018/01/15
shelves: classic, crime, mystery, 4-star, a-good-read
review:

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<![CDATA[The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)]]> 736131 Duration: 6 hr., 25 min.]]> 7 Arthur Conan Doyle 9626344245 Rishabh 2 2-star, crime, mystery 4.00 1914 The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1914
rating: 2
read at: 2018/01/07
date added: 2018/01/07
shelves: 2-star, crime, mystery
review:

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In a Dark, Dark Wood 23346377
Sometimes the only thing to fear…is yourself.

When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to the English countryside for a weekend away, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. But as the first night falls, revelations unfold among friends old and new, an unnerving memory shatters Leonora’s reserve, and a haunting realization creeps in: the party is not alone in the woods.]]>
352 Ruth Ware 1846558913 Rishabh 0 to-read, crime, mystery 3.65 2015 In a Dark, Dark Wood
author: Ruth Ware
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/12/06
shelves: to-read, crime, mystery
review:

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<![CDATA[The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)]]> 28591456 Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins

From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery� (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware—this time, set at sea.

In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for—and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong�

With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10—one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.]]>
12 Ruth Ware 1508217742 Rishabh 0 to-read, crime, mystery 3.42 2016 The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)
author: Ruth Ware
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/06
shelves: to-read, crime, mystery
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<![CDATA[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)]]> 2429135
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.]]>
480 Stieg Larsson 0670069019 Rishabh 5 4.17 2005 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
author: Stieg Larsson
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2012/07/24
date added: 2017/09/12
shelves: a-good-read, crime, mystery, lgbtq, 5-star
review:

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The Shining (The Shining, #1) 11588 497 Stephen King 0450040186 Rishabh 5 4.28 1977 The Shining (The Shining, #1)
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1977
rating: 5
read at: 2017/01/13
date added: 2017/09/09
shelves: horror, mystery, classic, a-good-read, 5-star
review:

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<![CDATA[Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #29)]]> 16308
Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits� that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman’s true motive for approaching him…]]>
352 Agatha Christie 0007121016 Rishabh 5 3.72 1948 Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #29)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1948
rating: 5
read at: 2017/09/07
date added: 2017/09/07
shelves: crime, mystery, classic, 5-star, a-good-read
review:

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<![CDATA[Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)]]> 140077 291 Charlaine Harris 0441012183 Rishabh 0 4.13 2004 Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2004
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/08/31
shelves: to-read, fantasy, mystery, romance
review:

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Confessions 19161835 Her pupils killed her daughter.
Now, she will have her revenge.

After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.

But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.

Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions explores the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.]]>
240 Kanae Minato 0316200921 Rishabh 0 to-read, mystery 3.91 2008 Confessions
author: Kanae Minato
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/08/31
shelves: to-read, mystery
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Burial Rites 17333319
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.

Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.

Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?]]>
336 Hannah Kent 0316243914 Rishabh 0 to-read, mystery 4.00 2013 Burial Rites
author: Hannah Kent
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/08/31
shelves: to-read, mystery
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Big Little Lies 19486412
A murder . . . a tragic accident . . . or just parents behaving badly?
What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.
But who did what?

Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads:

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).

Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.

New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.

Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.]]>
458 Liane Moriarty 0399167064 Rishabh 0 to-read 4.24 2014 Big Little Lies
author: Liane Moriarty
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/08/31
shelves: to-read
review:

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The Widow (Kate Waters, #1) 25734248
But that woman’s husband died last week. And Jean doesn’t have to be her anymore.

There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment.

Now there’s no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage.

The truth—that’s all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…]]>
324 Fiona Barton 1101990260 Rishabh 0 to-read, crime, mystery 3.44 2016 The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)
author: Fiona Barton
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/08/02
shelves: to-read, crime, mystery
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An Officer and a Spy 18007532
Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that “proved� Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus’s guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself.

Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness––a witch hunt, secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower--richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels.]]>
429 Robert Harris 0385349580 Rishabh 0 to-read, mystery 4.18 2013 An Officer and a Spy
author: Robert Harris
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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Sleeping Beauties 30622162
All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent�

In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep � and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain?

The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake.

And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether…]]>
718 Stephen King Rishabh 0 to-read, fantasy, horror 3.65 2017 Sleeping Beauties
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/06/18
shelves: to-read, fantasy, horror
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The Husband's Secret 17802724 At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read

My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died...

Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .

Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.

Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses—and, ultimately, ourselves.]]>
396 Liane Moriarty 0399159347 Rishabh 0 to-read, mystery 3.93 2013 The Husband's Secret
author: Liane Moriarty
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/04/21
shelves: to-read, mystery
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Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) 18498558 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062259653

Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.

Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?

Interweaving past and present, Bird Box is a snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.]]>
262 Josh Malerman Rishabh 0 4.02 2014 Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
author: Josh Malerman
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/04/21
shelves: to-read, horror, dystopia-utopia, mystery
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<![CDATA[An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers]]> 585623 456 G.H. Hardy 0198531710 Rishabh 0 to-read 4.32 1980 An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
author: G.H. Hardy
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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Gone with the Wind 18405 1037 Margaret Mitchell 0446365386 Rishabh 5 4.30 1936 Gone with the Wind
author: Margaret Mitchell
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1936
rating: 5
read at: 2014/07/09
date added: 2017/04/03
shelves: classic, romance, a-good-read, 5-star
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<![CDATA[Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories]]> 251688 Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's.

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's... And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveler, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

Also included are three of Capote's best-known stories:
House of Flowers - Ottilie is entranced by a beautiful young man, and leaves her life and friends to live with him and his old grandmother, who seems to hate her.
A Diamond Guitar - Hear the story of the prized possession of a younger prison inmate, a rhinestone-studded guitar.
A Christmas Memory - A poignant tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.]]>
142 Truman Capote Rishabh 3 3.87 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
author: Truman Capote
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1958
rating: 3
read at: 2017/02/18
date added: 2017/04/03
shelves: classic, romance, a-good-read, 3-star
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The Shawshank Redemption 9836767
Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, Stephen King’s extraordinary novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, tells a powerful tale of crushing despair and liberating hope through the eyes of Ellis “Red� Redding. Red’s a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine’s corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn’t count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufresne—an inscrutable one-time banker perhaps falsely convicted of brutal, calculated murder who will go on to transform everyone’s lives within these prison walls.

Originally published in the 1982 collection Different Seasons, it was adapted into the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this modern classic has become one of the most beloved films of all time. A mesmerizing work of unjust imprisonment and strangely satisfying revenge, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption remains one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories.]]>
4 Stephen King 1101010991 Rishabh 4 4.37 1982 The Shawshank Redemption
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1982
rating: 4
read at: 2013/05/17
date added: 2017/04/03
shelves: a-good-read, classic, mystery, fantasy, horror, 4-star
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<![CDATA[Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)]]> 960
A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.]]>
736 Dan Brown 1416524797 Rishabh 4 3.95 2000 Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
author: Dan Brown
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2010/07/20
date added: 2017/04/03
shelves: a-good-read, mystery, crime, 4-star
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It 830502
It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.]]>
1184 Stephen King 0450411435 Rishabh 5 4.28 1986 It
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1986
rating: 5
read at: 2017/04/04
date added: 2017/04/03
shelves: classic, fantasy, horror, 5-star, a-good-read
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Ill Will 30687788 Two sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.

“We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves,� Dustin Tillman likes to say. It’s one of the little mantras he shares with his patients, and it’s meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie?

A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother, Rusty, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin’s parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to symbolize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning.

Meanwhile, one of Dustin’s patients gets him deeply engaged in a string of drowning deaths involving drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses talk of a serial killer as paranoid thinking, but as he gets wrapped up in their amateur investigation, Dustin starts to believe that there’s more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed, crossing all professional boundaries—and putting his own family in harm’s way.

From one of today’s most renowned practitioners of literary suspense, Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan Chaon’s nimble, chilling prose, the past looms over the present, turning each into a haunted place.]]>
496 Dan Chaon 0345476042 Rishabh 0 to-read 3.35 2017 Ill Will
author: Dan Chaon
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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Secret Window, Secret Garden 155461 Four Past Midnight.

Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake--that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.

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0 Stephen King 0563477725 Rishabh 4 3.96 1990 Secret Window, Secret Garden
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1990
rating: 4
read at: 2012/12/18
date added: 2017/03/27
shelves: a-good-read, 4-star, horror, fantasy
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وقصص أخرى 1408 20957235
إن غرف الفنادق أماكن مخيفة بطبيعتها حقًا، ألا ترى ذلك؟ أعني، كم شخصًا سبقك إلى النوم في هذا الفراش؟ كم منهم كان مريضًا؟ كم منهم كان يشعر بأنه يفقد عقله؟ كم منهم كان يفكر ربما في قراءة بضع آيات أخيرة من الكتاب المقدس الموضوع في درج الكومود المجاوز للفراش، قبل أن يشنق نفسه في الخزانة القريبة من التليفزيون؟ على كل حال دعونا ندخل. ها هو مفتاحك... ولربما كنت ترغب في استغراق بعض الوقت لتلاحظ مجموع تلك الأرقام الأربعة البريئة. إن الغرفة 1408 تنتظرنا في نهاية الرواق.]]>
291 Stephen King Rishabh 2 3.94 2014 وقصص أخرى 1408
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2013/05/27
date added: 2017/03/16
shelves: mystery, 2-star, horror, fantasy
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Misery 10614 #1, #2, #3, #4

Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.]]>
370 Stephen King 0450417395 Rishabh 0 4.22 1987 Misery
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/02/28
shelves: to-read, classic, horror, next-change
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Pet Sematary 33124137 This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son-and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.]]> 580 Stephen King Rishabh 0 4.21 1983 Pet Sematary
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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Carrie 10592
Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie
--back cover]]>
272 Stephen King 1416524304 Rishabh 0 4.00 1974 Carrie
author: Stephen King
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1974
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, classic, horror, fantasy, next-change
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<![CDATA[Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe, #7)]]> 32504 Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor's killer. An unputdownable story from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author.

'Blood Work' - that's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago he was a dead man, but now someone else's heart is keeping him alive. Then a newspaper report of his brush with death brings him an unwanted visitor. Graciela Rivers reveals to McCaleb that the anonymous donor of his heart was her murdered sister, and that the police investigation into the case is going nowhere. McCaleb feels he has no choice but to take on the investigation.

Nothing about the seemingly random killing makes sense. McCaleb realises that someone is watching his every move - someone who has killed before and will kill again...]]>
498 Michael Connelly 0446690449 Rishabh 5 4.12 1998 Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe, #7)
author: Michael Connelly
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 2017/02/14
date added: 2017/02/14
shelves: 5-star, a-good-read, crime, mystery
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<![CDATA[Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)]]> 433035
Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison.

Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows…]]>
336 Agatha Christie Rishabh 3 3.91 1940 Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1940
rating: 3
read at: 2017/02/08
date added: 2017/02/08
shelves: classic, crime, mystery, 3-star
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<![CDATA[Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #32)]]> 834377
"The plot is perfect and the characters are wonderful." (San Francisco Chronicle)

Well, it's no wonder. The plot--suspicion for an elderly woman's murder falls on her mysterious lodger--is from Agatha Christie. The wonderful character happens to be the world's most famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot.]]>
229 Agatha Christie 0425175456 Rishabh 4 3.71 1952 Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #32)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1952
rating: 4
read at: 2017/02/06
date added: 2017/02/06
shelves: 4-star, a-good-read, classic, crime, mystery
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<![CDATA[The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)]]> 16316
Librarian's note #1: the concept of The Big Four first appeared as weekly short stories very loosely connected in 'The Sketch' in 1924. The 12 original stories were: 1) The Unexpected Guest, 2) The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow, 3) The Lady on the Stairs, 4) The Radium Thieves, 5) In the House of the Enemy, 6) The Yellow Jasmine Mystery, 7) The Chess Problem, 8) The Baited Trap, 9) The Adventure of the Peroxide Blond, 10) The Terrible Catastrophe, 11) The Dying Chinaman, and 12) The Crag in the Dolomites. For her 1927 novel, Christie enhanced the linkages between the stories and shuffled them somewhat.

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on ŷ.]]>
272 Agatha Christie 0007120818 Rishabh 3 3.54 1927 The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1927
rating: 3
read at: 2017/01/31
date added: 2017/01/31
shelves: classic, crime, mystery, 3-star
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<![CDATA[The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #20)]]> 4527502
Think again, Jack.

Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling revenues, he's got only a few days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of journalism school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang � a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor � a Pulitzer prize.
Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. Jack convinces Alonzo's mother to cooperate with his investigation into the possibility of her son's innocence. But she has fallen for the oldest reporter's trick in the book. Jack's real intention is to use his access to report and write a story that explains how societal dysfunction and neglect created a 16-year-old killer.
But as Jack delves into the story he soon realizes that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus, and Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path years before. He reunites with FBI Agent Rachel Walling to go after a killer who has worked completely below police and FBI radar—and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
What Jack doesn't know is that his investigation has inadvertently set off a digital tripwire. The killer knows Jack is coming—and he's ready.]]>
423 Michael Connelly Rishabh 4 4-star, a-good-read 4.07 2009 The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #20)
author: Michael Connelly
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2017/01/24
date added: 2017/01/24
shelves: 4-star, a-good-read
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Sphere 455373 371 Michael Crichton Rishabh 0 to-read, mystery 3.83 1987 Sphere
author: Michael Crichton
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, mystery
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<![CDATA[The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)]]> 32506 597 Michael Connelly 0446690457 Rishabh 4 4.20 1996 The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
author: Michael Connelly
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2016/11/22
date added: 2016/11/22
shelves: crime, mystery, 4-star, a-good-read
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Memoirs of a Geisha 930
In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.]]>
434 Arthur Golden 0739326228 Rishabh 3 3-star, classic, romance 4.07 1997 Memoirs of a Geisha
author: Arthur Golden
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at: 2016/11/11
date added: 2016/11/11
shelves: 3-star, classic, romance
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Foucault’s Pendulum 17841
Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled � a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.]]>
623 Umberto Eco 015603297X Rishabh 0 to-read 3.92 1988 Foucault’s Pendulum
author: Umberto Eco
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe]]> 534606 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again. . . .]]> 402 Fannie Flagg 0804115613 Rishabh 0 4.16 1987 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
author: Fannie Flagg
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/29
shelves: to-read, classic, humor, lgbtq
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The Three (The Three, #1) 18453110 Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right?

The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn't appear to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters a child survivor is found in the wreckage. Dubbed 'The Three' by the international press, the children all exhibit disturbing behavioural problems, presumably caused by the horror they lived through and the unrelenting press attention. This attention becomes more than just intrusive when a rapture cult led by a charismatic evangelical minister insists that the survivors are three of the four harbingers of the apocalypse. The Three are forced to go into hiding, but as the children's behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing, even their guardians begin to question their miraculous survival.]]>
471 Sarah Lotz 031624290X Rishabh 0 to-read 3.31 2014 The Three (The Three, #1)
author: Sarah Lotz
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/07/08
shelves: to-read
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The Slap 5396496
This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the slap.

In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires.

What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of commitment and happiness, compromise and truth.]]>
485 Christos Tsiolkas Rishabh 0 to-read 3.26 2008 The Slap
author: Christos Tsiolkas
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.26
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/07/08
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Divergent (Divergent, #1) 8306857 In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

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487 Veronica Roth 0062024027 Rishabh 0 4.28 2011 Divergent (Divergent, #1)
author: Veronica Roth
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/28
shelves: to-read, romance, dystopia-utopia, young-adult
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I Too Had a Love Story 19427193 212 Ravinder Singh 8188575704 Rishabh 1 3.62 2007 I Too Had a Love Story
author: Ravinder Singh
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2007
rating: 1
read at: 2012/11/04
date added: 2016/05/11
shelves: never-again, romance, indian-authors, 1-star, india, young-adult
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Of Human Bondage 31548
Marked by countless similarities to Maugham’s own life, his masterpiece is “not an autobiography,� as the author himself once contended, “but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own.”]]>
684 W. Somerset Maugham 0451530179 Rishabh 0 to-read 4.13 1915 Of Human Bondage
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1915
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/04/26
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<![CDATA[The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)]]> 18934742 195 Arthur Conan Doyle Rishabh 0 4.06 1914 The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1914
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/04/24
shelves: classic, crime, mystery, to-read
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Memories of Evil 16159746
I was born in 1930 in a town called Trencin, in what was then Czechoslovakia -- a country that no longer exists; it is now called Slovakia. I was the only child of a well-to-do Jewish couple. My father was the owner of a store, a kind of department store, in a prime location on the town's principal square. We lived in a large comfortable apartment above the store. My mother loved working in the store, while the family's needs were attended to by a maid, a cook, and a governess for me. I grew up bi-lingual -- fluent in Slovak and in German. I soon added Czech as an additional language and started studying English from the age of eight.

This idyllic existence was shattered in 1939 when Hitler's Germany annexed the Czech part of the country, with Slovakia becoming a quasi-independent country governed by an indigenous fascist party, firmly allied to Nazi Germany. A resolute feature of this Slovak government was its anti-Semitism. A series of anti-Jewish laws was promulgated, stripping us ultimately of our property and of all civil rights.

In 1942 the government started deporting its population to German concentration camps vaguely identified as "in the East." Between March and November of that year, of a Jewish population of close to 90,000 people, some 60,000 were deported -- the vast majority to their annihilation in camps such as Auschwitz. You can read in my book how my family escaped deportation in 1942; and how we were finally caught in the next and deported in October, 1944. I describe this desperate period in my book: how I was separated from my family; how I survived a succession of concentration camps, culminating in a 12-day Hunger March before my final liberation.

I immigrated to this country in November, 1946. I mark this event in my life as my rebirth and my new life. After a fruitful and satisfying 68 years in the U.S., the travail of my childhood years -- of what I call my previous life -- ought to be long forgotten. And yet, survivors of the Holocaust cannot forget, cannot forgive. Vestiges of our trauma will remain with us to our last breath. If you want to come a little closer to understanding the Holocaust, read my modest book. It is far from the whole truth which is beyond human understanding. But is is nothing but the truth, based on fragments indelibly etched in my memory, supplemented by historical research.]]>
110 Peter Kubicek 1480163201 Rishabh 0 to-read, non-fiction 4.45 2012 Memories of Evil
author: Peter Kubicek
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/04/16
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]>
759 J.K. Rowling Rishabh 4 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/13
date added: 2016/04/13
shelves: 4-star, adventure, fantasy, young-adult
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<![CDATA[The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis]]> 49227 It's all there in black and white �

The most popular book on this amazing discipline, this volume shows readers how to analyze almost any handwriting sample and understand the special characteristics of the writer's personality. Drawing upon 30 years of experience as a professional graphologist, Sheila Lowe clearly explains what every squiggle and dot says about a person. From Kurt Cobain and Jimmy Smits to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, this new edition is filled with hundreds of real examples of handwriting to illustrate how handwriting indicates a person's most basic�and intimate� traits.
--Hundreds of new handwriting examples
--Up-to-the-minute information about graphology computer programs
--Fascinating anecdotes about graphology's role in criminal justice


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336 Sheila Lowe 159257601X Rishabh 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.87 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis
author: Sheila Lowe
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.87
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rating: 0
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date added: 2016/04/11
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The White Tiger 1768603
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along.

Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City car, Balram's new world is a revelation. While his peers flip through the pages of Murder Weekly ("Love -- Rape -- Revenge!"), barter for girls, drink liquor (Thunderbolt), and perpetuate the Great Rooster Coop of Indian society, Balram watches his employers bribe foreign ministers for tax breaks, barter for girls, drink liquor (single-malt whiskey), and play their own role in the Rooster Coop. Balram learns how to siphon gas, deal with corrupt mechanics, and refill and resell Johnnie Walker Black Label bottles (all but one). He also finds a way out of the Coop that no one else inside it can perceive.

Balram's eyes penetrate India as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and Internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create virtue, and money doesn't solve every problem -- but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations.

The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative genius, with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation —and a startling, provocative debut.]]>
276 Aravind Adiga 1416562591 Rishabh 3 3.76 2008 The White Tiger
author: Aravind Adiga
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2009/06/16
date added: 2016/04/08
shelves: indian-authors, india, crime, mystery, 3-star
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<![CDATA[Nine Things Successful People Do Differently]]> 13005031
Take your cues from the short, powerful 9 Things Successful People Do Differently , where the strategies and goals of the world’s most successful people are on display—backed by research that shows exactly what has the biggest impact on performance. Here’s a accomplished people reach their goals because of what they do, not just who they are.

Readers have called this “a gem of a book.� Get ready to accomplish your goals at last.]]>
38 Heidi Grant Halvorson Rishabh 0 to-read 3.87 Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
author: Heidi Grant Halvorson
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.87
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date added: 2016/04/03
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Heaven (Casteel, #1) 787660 Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face...despite a father meaner than ten vipers...despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes. Someday they'd get away and show the world that they were decent, fine and talented -- worthy of love and respect.
Then Heaven's stepmother ran off, and her wicked, greedy father had a scheme -- a vicious scheme that threatened to destroy the precious dream of Heaven and the children forever!]]>
440 V.C. Andrews Rishabh 0 4.05 1985 Heaven (Casteel, #1)
author: V.C. Andrews
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1985
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/03/20
shelves: to-read, horror, gothic, mystery, romance, young-adult
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<![CDATA[My Sweet Audrina (Audrina, #1)]]> 805023 Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew her father could not love her as he loved her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect -- and dead.
Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Everyone except...
My Sweet Audrina
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403 V.C. Andrews Rishabh 0 3.89 1982 My Sweet Audrina (Audrina, #1)
author: V.C. Andrews
name: Rishabh
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Exorcism of Emily Rose: The Movie, The Story and The Truth Behind its Secrets]]> 22847509
Also read the truth about the real life of Anneliese Michel, the seizures she's suffered, the psychiatric treatments, and the sixty-seven exorcism sessions she's endured, finally leading to her death.

Purchase your copy today of the booklet that reveals the Horrifying Truth Behind its Secrets!]]>
20 Trey Stevens Rishabh 0 to-read 4.00 2010 Exorcism of Emily Rose: The Movie, The Story and The Truth Behind its Secrets
author: Trey Stevens
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/03/18
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<![CDATA[Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less]]> 78982
A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man.

With nothing left to lose four strangers are about to come together-each expert in their own field. Their plan: find Harvey, shadow him, trap him, and penny-for-penny, destroy him. From the luxurious casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot to the bustling streets of Wall Street to fashionable London galleries, their own ingenious game has begun. It's called revenge-and they were taught by a master.
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305 Jeffrey Archer 0312997132 Rishabh 4 4.04 1976 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1976
rating: 4
read at: 2016/03/17
date added: 2016/03/17
shelves: crime, mystery, 4-star, a-good-read
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<![CDATA[Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)]]> 46756 Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.]]> 389 Margaret Atwood Rishabh 0 to-read 4.01 2003 Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Rishabh
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/03/12
shelves: to-read
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