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The Twilight Saga: Book 1

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

When Bella's mother remarries she grudgingly decides to go live with her father in the sunless, perpetually rainy city of Forks, Washington. It's the middle of the semester at a new school and the most she can hope for is to blend in. Then she sees the mysterious Edward Cullen. He's handsome,... (learn more about this book)

Robert Langdon: Book 2

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to... (learn more about this book)

Harry Potter: Book 5

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

Book five in Joanne Kathleen Rowling's Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for the young wizard, who finds himself knocked time after time the events of last year. Over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry's... (learn more about this book)

Robert Langdon: Book 1

Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization --... (learn more about this book)

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

Original title: "O Alquimista"

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in... (learn more about this book)

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.

This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven,... (learn more about this book)

Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with... (learn more about this book)

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond... (learn more about this book)

Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

The Industrialist

Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger corporation, is tormented by the loss of his niece decades earlier and convinced that a member of his family has committed murder.

The Journalist

Mikael Blomkvist delves deep into the Vangers' past to uncover the... (learn more about this book)

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

Life of Pi is a fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal Tiger after a shipwreck. Pi Patel's father runs a zoo in Pondicherry - a former French colony in India - but decides to migrate to Canada along with his family and assorted zoo animals due to political... (learn more about this book)