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Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy, #1)
by Jason  Matthews
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Espionage, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Russia
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.95

In the grand spy-tale tradition of John le Carré comes this shocking thriller written with insider detail known only to a veteran CIA officer. In present-day Russia, ruled by blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency’s most important Russian mole.Spies have long relied on the “honey trap,” whereby vulnerable men and women are intimately compromised. Dominika learns these techniques of “sexpionage” in Russia’s secret “Sparrow School,” hidden outside of Moscow. As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and—inevitably—forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate’s game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC.Page by page, veteran CIA officer Jason Matthews’s Red Sparrow delights and terrifies and fascinates, all while delivering an unforgettable cast, from a sadistic Spetsnaz “mechanic” who carries out Putin’s murderous schemes to the weary CIA Station Chief who resists Washington “cake-eaters” to MARBLE, the priceless Russian mole. Packed with insider detail and written with brio, this tour-de-force novel brims with Matthews’s life experience, including his knowledge of espionage, counterintelligence, surveillance tradecraft, spy recruitment, cyber-warfare, the Russian use of “spy dust,” and covert communications. Brilliantly composed and elegantly constructed, Red Sparrow is a masterful spy tale lifted from the dossiers of intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Authentic, tense, and entertaining, this novel introduces Jason Matthews as a major new American talent.
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
Genres: Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them, in particular Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies.
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
by Timothy J. Keller
Genres: Christian, Theology, Religion, Nonfiction, Christianity, Faith, Philosophy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.20

Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, is a prequel to The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts?Although a vocal minority continues to attack the Christian faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their lives: 86 percent of Americans refer to themselves as religious, and 75 percent of all Americans consider themselves Christians. So how should they respond to these passionate, learned, and persuasive books that promote science and secularism over religion and faith? For years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced “doubts” skeptics bring to his Manhattan church. And in The Reason for God, he single-handedly dismantles each of them. Written with atheists, agnostics, and skeptics in mind, Keller also provides an intelligent platform on which true believers can stand their ground when bombarded by the backlash. The Reason for God challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity.Why is there suffering in the world? How could a loving God send people to Hell? Why isn’t Christianity more inclusive? Shouldn’t the Christian God be a god of love? How can one religion be “right” and the rest “wrong”? Why have so many wars been fought in the name of God? These are just a few of the questions even ardent believers wrestle with today. In this book, Tim Keller uses literature, philosophy, real-life conversations and reasoning, and even pop culture to explain how faith in a Christian God is a soundly rational belief, held by thoughtful people of intellectual integrity with a deep compassion for those who truly want to know the truth.
The Warrior's Way (Pre-Aztec series, #3)
by Zoe Saadia
Genres: Historical Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.51

The small Aztecs island is busy trying to gain their independence, while helping the Tepanecs expand their Empire, engaging in more and more wars.Yet, the Great Empire's interests are not always going along with our heroes' goals. While struggling to achieve their aims, the main character find themselves on different paths, each fraught with losses and danger.
The Sounding
by Carrie Salo
Genres: Paranormal, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Horror, Angels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.05

2016 Book Excellence Awards Suspense Winner! In the Book of Revelation, a man named John has a prophetic dream. He dreams of the final prophecies that will come to pass - and the seven archangels that guard them. Each angel waits to sound their trumpet at God's appointed time, preparing humanity to fight and win the final battle.2,000 years later, Father Chris Mognahan is a member of the Hetairia Melchizedek, a secret society within the Catholic Church that studies Biblical omens. The society asks Chris to investigate an unusually grotesque crime - a murder on a college campus where the killer's hand literally burned off the victim's face. While the killing seems isolated at first, the society ties the murder to the final Biblical prophecy and a terrifying omen that the order of the prophecies is about to be disrupted. The final battle is coming too soon - long before humanity is prepared to win it.Suddenly, Chris finds himself fighting against time and hell to keep the prophecies in order and stop an early Armageddon. He is joined by a band of unlikely allies, and together they find themselves in Rome above the Vatican Necropolis - the city of the dead - where the future is revealed to them in ancient texts.They are not alone, however; an evil as old as time itself hunts them. As they travel across continents on their mission, the demonic force follows relentlessly, waiting in every shadowed corner, and every dark place.As Armageddon descends, Father Chris finds that his only hope lies in a young woman within the group who has a secret gift - and their belief that God Himself may have sent her to keep the final angelic trumpet from sounding out the early end of the Earth.
The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)
by Brandon Sanderson
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Steampunk, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.21

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.
Bag of Bones
by Stephen King
Genres: Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy, Paranormal, Suspense
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.91

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here — and what do they want of Mike Noonan?
The Grownup
by Gillian Flynn
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.56

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson, doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.“The Grownup,” originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology.
First Half: Super Indy
by Alex Letner
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.72

A secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. Indy, certified yoga master in his 18 years of age, comes from a small town to study in the college the theory of magic. At the moment Indy is living with his girlfriend Allis, 26 in the house of her mother Tesha. Tesha, a pretty, attractive woman, had suffered an attack of unusual weakness and dizziness right when a part from "The Great Book of Yoga" was being read by Indy in his full voice. Tesha is a lady with modern and progressive views, is an employee of a scientifically oriented industrial plant. Her bravery and decisiveness was the reason someone named her the "Witch." Even more things happen. Somehow, she was able to purchase a very specific "Opus D" photo camera. Which is known in a very narrow circle of professionals and was considered by them like a magic property item. But, how can a devise made out of metal and plastic parts be magic? In this case, any machine can possess magic properties. And that's not all...
FIRST HALF: Super Indy
by Alex Letner
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.72

Indy, certified yoga master in his 18 years of age, comes from a small town to study in the college the theory of magic.  At the moment Indy is living with his girlfriend Allis, 26 in the house of her mother Tesha.  Tesha, a pretty, attractive woman, had suffered an attack of unusual weakness and dizziness right when a part from “The Great Book of Yoga” was being read by Indy in his full voice. Tesha is a lady with modern and progressive views, is an employee of a scientifically oriented industrial plant. Her bravery and decisiveness was the reason someone named her the “Witch”. Even more things happen. Somehow, she was able to purchase a very specific “Opus D” photo camera. Which is known in a very narrow circle of professionals and was considered by them like a magic property item. But, how can a devise made out of metal and plastic parts be magic? In this case, any machine can possess magic properties.  And that’s not all…  A secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure.  Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go.  If they are right, the community will have access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel.
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Space, Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
66 Metres (Nadia Laksheva Spy Thriller, #1)
by J.F. Kirwan
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Novels, Fiction, Epic
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.22


The only thing worth killing for is family.
Everyone said she had her father’s eyes. A killer’s eyes. Nadia knew that on the bitterly cold streets of Moscow, she could never escape her past – but in just a few days, she would finally be free.Bound to work for Kadinsky for five years, she has just one last mission to complete. Yet when she is instructed to capture The Rose, a military weapon shrouded in secrecy, Nadia finds herself trapped in a deadly game of global espionage.And the only man she can trust is the one sent to spy on her…
No Great Mischief
by Alistair MacLeod
Genres: Fiction, Canada, Historical Fiction, Canadian Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.02

Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tragedy, has nevertheless gained some success in the world. Even his older brother, Calum, a nearly destitute alcoholic living on Toronto's skid row, has been scarred by another tragedy. But, like all his clansman, Alexander is sustained by a family history that seems to run through his veins. And through these lovingly recounted stories-wildly comic or heartbreakingly tragic-we discover the hope against hope upon which every family must sometimes rely.
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
by Daniel Coyle
Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Help, Business, Personal Development, Education, Science
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.04

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you're coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism.Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world's talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice--Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn't know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice.• Ignition--We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development.• Master Coaching--What are the secrets of the world's most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these "talent whisperers" to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students.These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo's to Michael Jordan's. The good news about myelin is that it isn't fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.
The Young Jaguar (Pre-Aztec Series, #1)
by Zoe Saadia
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Adventure
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.91

The Capital of the great Tepanec Empire is in turmoil, with the old Emperor dead and his heirs struggling for succession. Tecpatl, the Chief Warlord and a very content man, still married to the Anasazi woman his peers view as a barbarian, tries to obey the old Emperor's edicts. Yet, when Atolli, his elder son and a very promising but hotheaded youth, gets caught in the political turmoil, everything changes. Tecpatl isforced to choose between his duty and his family, while his wife takes her own non-traditional paths to deal with the crisis.
The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)
by Tad Williams
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dragons, Adventure
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.96

A war fueled by the powers of dark sorcery is about to engulf the peaceful land of Osten Ard—for Prester John, the High King, lies dying. And with his death, the Storm King, the undead ruler of the elf-like Sithi, seizes the chance to regain his lost realm through a pact with the newly ascended king. Knowing the consequences of this bargain, the king’s younger brother joins with a small, scattered group of scholars, the League of the Scroll, to confront the true danger threatening Osten Ard.  Simon, a kitchen boy from the royal castle unknowingly apprenticed to a member of this League, will be sent on a quest that offers the only hope of salvation, a deadly riddle concerning long-lost swords of power. Compelled by fate and perilous magics, he must leave the only home he’s ever known and face enemies more terrifying than Osten Ard has ever seen, even as the land itself begins to die. After the landmark Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, the epic saga of Osten Ard continues with the brand-new novel, The Heart of What Was Lost. Then don’t miss the upcoming trilogy, The Last King of Osten Ard, beginning with The Witchwood Crown!
The Great Action (Super Indy, #4)
by Alex Letner
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.76

Comic book. This is last part (section #4) of the first Super Indy Story. (More coming) A secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. If they are right, the community will have access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel.  Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. And meanwhile, a college administration is worrying about disappearance of a college professor and is starting search actions. Mysteriously the professor has materialized the same day on a parking lot bench…unconscious… And meanwhile, Indy, the certified yoga master, while teaching yoga, discovered his power to rule machines (or that is look like this).  And meanwhile, Tesha, in spite of being a very pretty woman is sad for some unpleasant circumstances in her life: she has not practiced love for about two years already. She became depressed about this until she met some young men who represented themselves as…angels. And more things happened.
New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)
by Robert Jordan
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.05

The prequel novel to the globally bestselling Wheel of Time series - a fantasy phenomenonThe city of Canluum lies close to the scarred and desolate wastes of the Blight, a walled haven from the dangers away to the north, and a refuge from the ill works of those who serve the Dark One. Or so it is said. The city that greets Al'Lan Mandragoran, exiled king of Malkier and the finest swordsman of his generation, is instead one that is rife with rumour and the whisperings of Shadowspawn. Proof, should he have required it, that the Dark One grows powerful once more and that his minions are at work throughout the lands.And yet it is within Canluum's walls that Lan will meet a woman who will shape his destiny. Moiraine is a young and powerful Aes Sedai who has journeyed to the city in search of a bondsman. She requires aid in a desperate quest to prove the truth of a vague and largely discredited prophecy - one that speaks of a means to turn back the shadow, and of a child who may be the dragon reborn.
The Cyberiad
by Stanisław Lem
Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Humor, Polish Literature, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.16

A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. Ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work.