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1) Ready player one

Author

Cline, Ernest

Series

Ready player novels Book 1

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Book, Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of the OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by OASIS creator James Halliday he finds he must compete with thousands of others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim a prize of massive fortune.

2) Jane Eyre

Author

Brontë, Charlotte

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"Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she takes a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay...

3) The Hobbit: or, There and back again

Author

Tolkien, J.R.R

Series

Lord of the rings

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The adventures of the well-to-do Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.

4) The princess and the goblin

Author

MacDonald, George

Series

Puffin classics

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A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live below the castle.

5) Rich dad, poor dad: what the rich teach their kids about money-- that the poor and middle class do not!

Author

Kiyosaki, Robert T

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It's been nearly 25 years since Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad first made waves in the Personal Finance arena.
It has since become the #1 Personal Finance book of all time... translated into dozens of languages and sold around the world.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped

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6) The richest man in Babylon

Author

Clason, George S

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Book, eBook

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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason is the perfect book for you, if you exhausted by living an average life, hit by a dearth of money or if your paramount aim is to become rich and wealthy. This collection of famous Babylonian parables teaches timeless financial wisdom, which will help you on your path to becoming rich. From the importance of savings to attracting good luck, the book profoundly articulates timeless secrets that will

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7) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Novel

Author

Bradley, Alan

Series

Flavia De Luce mysteries Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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WINNER OF THE AGATHA • ARTHUR ELLIS • DILYS • DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine.”—Chicago Sun-Times

It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion...

8) Cinder

Author

Meyer, Marissa

Series

Lunar chronicles Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness.

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9) The false prince

Author

Nielsen, Jennifer A

Series

Ascendance novels Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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New York Times bestseller The False Prince thrills with wild twists and turns, danger and deceit, and the revelation of hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end.

In a discontented kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are...

10) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Author

Irving, Washington

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eAudiobook, eBook

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In a secluded Dutch settlement in New York, two men vie for the hand of a wealthy farmer's daughter. Ichabod Crane, the superstitious schoolmaster is one of those men. One night, when walking home from the farmer's house, Ichabod is chased by the Headless Horseman, who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head".

Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is one of the earliest examples of American literature

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11) One for the Money

Author

Evanovich, Janet

Series

Stephanie Plum mysteries Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Discover where it all began—the first "snappily written, fast-paced, and witty" (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who "comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air" (The Washington Post), from Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Thirty.
Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic...

12) The secret life of bees

Author

Kidd, Sue Monk

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The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in...

13) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (World Digital Library Edition)

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

The Adventures of Tom and Huck

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Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Introduction by George Saunders
Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the...

14) The redheaded princess: a novel

Author

Rinaldi, Ann

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In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.

15) Storm Front

Author

Butcher, Jim

Series

Dresden files Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series, Harry Dresden’s investigation of a grisly double murder pulls him into the darkest depths of magical Chicago…
As a professional wizard, Harry Dresden knows firsthand that the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most of them don’t play well with humans. And those that do enjoy playing with...

16) Crocodile on the Sandbank

Author

Peters, Elizabeth

Series

Amelia Peabody mysteries Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Meet Egyptologist Amelia Peabody in the first mystery in the Victorian-era set, New York Times bestselling "sparkling series" (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).
"If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson."—Publishers Weekly
Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her debut Egyptian adventure armed...

17) The Assassination Bureau, Ltd

Author

London, Jack

Series

Penguin twentieth-century classics

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"'I have accepted a commission from you... The agreement was that I should order my own execution if you proved to my satisfaction that the assassinations achieved by the Bureau were wrong. You have proved it. Nothing remains but to live up to the agreement.' Thus Ivan Dragomiloff, founder and mastermind of the secret Assassination Bureau, signs his own death warrant and sets of a lethal cat-and-mouse game, pitting himself against the very organization...

18) Beauty

Author

McKinley, Robin

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A collection, selected by children as their favorites, of twenty-three spooky tales from a variety of ethnic traditions.

19) A Wizard of Earthsea

Author

Le Guin, Ursula K

Series

Earthsea series Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The first novel of Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman)

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world.

This

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20) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Author

Rowling, J. K

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh

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