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The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

The Unhoneymooners

by Christina Lauren

4.0
10/24/2021

When food poisoning strikes an entire wedding party, the only two people who can use the honeymoon trip are the bride's sister and the groom's brother - who can't stand each other.

fictionromance
8 hours
This Telling by Cheryl Strayed

This Telling

by Cheryl Strayed

4.0
9/12/2020

An Ancestry.com match arrives in the inbox of a woman who has spent forty-plus years pretending the baby she gave up for adoption in 1964 never existed - and Cheryl Strayed traces, in a tight short story for Amazon's Out of Line collection, what happens when a teenager named Geraldine Waters has to integrate the life she actually lived with the one she's been telling.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

4.0
9/11/2020

Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning third novel: thirteen-year-old Theo Decker survives the bombing of the Metropolitan Museum that kills his mother, walks out of the rubble with Carel Fabritius's tiny 1654 painting of a chained goldfinch, and spends the next fourteen years carrying it from Park Avenue to Las Vegas to Amsterdam, alongside the most unforgettable problem child in recent fiction.

fictionliterary-fiction
16 hours
The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev

The Climb

by Anatoli Boukreev

5.0
9/9/2020

Russian-Kazakhstani guide Anatoli Boukreev's firsthand account of the 1996 Everest disaster - co-written with G. Weston DeWalt, published the same year as Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, and offering the Mountain Madness team's perspective on the storm that killed eight climbers and the three trips into it that Boukreev made alone to bring three of his clients back alive.

non-fictionmemoir
6 hours
Guilt by Jonathan Kellerman

Guilt

by Jonathan Kellerman

4.0
9/6/2020

When a Cheviot Hills couple unearths an old hospital supply box with an infant skeleton from the early 1950s, then a nanny is found shot in a nearby park beside more recent infant bones picked clean and coated in beeswax, Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis follow two trails - one back to a 1950s pediatric nurse and a doctor in a rare Duesenberg, the other into the gated estate of movie stars Donny Rader and Prema Moon.

fictionmystery
7 hours
Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles

Mississippi Blood

by Greg Iles

4.0
8/28/2020

The closing volume of Greg Iles's Natchez Burning trilogy puts Dr. Tom Cage on trial for the murder of Viola Turner - his Black nurse, his decades-long lover, the mother of a son he never publicly acknowledged - while his son Penn Cage tries to defend a father who refuses to defend himself.

fictionthriller
16 hours
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