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    Ego is the Enemy

    In a world that rewards noise, ambition, and self-promotion, Ego is the Enemy is a quiet rebellion—an urgent call to master the inner war between aspiration and humility. With stories of rise and ruin from history’s corridors, it unveils how ego—disguised as confidence or vision—can quietly sabotage success, cloud judgment, and sever meaning from achievement. What if the greatest obstacle to fulfillment is not the world outside, but the unchecked voice within? Clear-eyed and fiercely practical, this book offers a path not to glory, but to greatness born of self-mastery. In the silence after ego fades, what might we finally hear?

    • Originally Published: 2016
    • Publisher: Portfolio, 2016
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 256
    • Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1591847816
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    The Concise Laws Of Human Nature

    Beneath the polished surface of civility lies a labyrinth of impulse, emotion, and primal instinct—and The Laws of Human Nature hands you the torch to navigate it. With a tone both surgical and haunting, this book exposes the timeless patterns that govern how people think, act, and deceive—even themselves. Can mastering the hidden currents of human behavior lead to deeper empathy, or does such power risk manipulation? Equal parts mirror and map, it dares you to confront the shadows within and around you. What you do with that knowledge may define your influence—or your downfall.

    • Originally Published: 2018
    • Publisher: Profile Books, 2020
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 287
    • Book Type: Hardcopy(Pocket Version)
    • ISBN: 9781788161565
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    The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

    Time is an illusion, suffering its echo—and The Power of Now invites you to step beyond both. In luminous, meditative prose, it unravels the mental noise that binds us to regret and anxiety, offering instead the stillness of the present moment as a gateway to peace. But can we truly awaken without first dying to the identities we’ve built? This is not a promise of escape, but a call to return—to a place you’ve never left but have forgotten how to feel. In the quiet between thoughts, a deeper life waits.

    • Originally Published: 1997
    • Publisher: Yellow Kite, 2020
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 224
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0340733509
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    The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock Your Master Key to Success

    Beneath the noise of waking thought lies a silent force that shapes your destiny—The Power of Your Subconscious Mind reveals how to unlock it. With clarity and conviction, this guide explores the untapped reservoir within, where beliefs become reality and imagination births truth. Are you the master of your mind, or merely its obedient echo? This is a journey into the hidden architecture of your life, where healing, success, and peace are not external conquests but inner awakenings. To read it is to remember the power you’ve always had—and to finally wield it.

    • Originally Published: 1963
    • Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2022
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 296
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0143453604
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    You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

    You Can Win is a clarion call to those who long not merely to succeed, but to thrive with integrity and purpose. With stories that stir the heart and strategies that sharpen the mind, it builds a ladder from self-doubt to self-mastery—one rung at a time. Is winning reserved for the few, or does it begin with a choice that anyone can make? Through timeless principles and actionable insights, the book invites you to rise above circumstance and craft a life shaped not by luck, but by character. It is not just a guide to achievement—it is a manifesto for becoming the kind of person who deserves it.

    • Originally Published: 1998
    • Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2014
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 314
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-9832951711
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    Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

    Option B is a luminous testament to the human spirit’s resilience when life shatters its first, best plan. In the wake of unspeakable loss, it asks: when Plan A is no longer possible, can we find strength, grace, and meaning in the imperfect contours of Plan B? Through deeply personal reflections and psychological insights, the book becomes both lantern and ladder—lighting the dark and lifting the fallen. It offers not just solace, but a roadmap for rediscovering joy without denying pain. In a world where heartbreak is inevitable, Option B dares us to believe that healing—and even hope—can still be chosen.

    • Originally Published: 2017
    • Publisher: WH Allen, 2019
    • Pages: 240
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0753548295
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    Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

    Behind every billion-dollar startup lies a labyrinth few ever see—Secrets of Sand Hill Road invites you inside. With the precision of a dealmaker and the candor of a mentor, it demystifies the high-stakes dance between founders and venture capitalists, where ambition is currency and missteps are costly. How do great ideas survive the gauntlet of funding, power dynamics, and boardroom battles? This book is both map and mirror: revealing how venture capital shapes the future—and how entrepreneurs must shape themselves to survive it. For anyone who has ever dared to turn vision into venture, this is a guide to the game behind the curtain.

    • Originally Published: 2019
    • Publisher: Virgin Books, 2019
    • Genre: Fiction
    • Pages: 320
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 9780753553961
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    Atlas Shrugged

    What happens when the world’s thinkers, builders, and dreamers vanish, one by one, into silence? Atlas Shrugged is a thunderous epic set in a collapsing civilization, where the engines of progress are halted by a society that punishes excellence and rewards mediocrity. Amid the smoke of industry and the ruins of broken ideals, a defiant few must decide: is it moral to serve a world that drains your soul—or to walk away and let it crumble? With sweeping prose and unflinching vision, this novel challenges the very foundations of duty, ambition, and what it means to live with purpose. It is a story of resistance, of love forged in fire, and of the relentless power of the human mind.

    • Originally Published: 1957
    • Publisher: Signet, 2004
    • Genre: Fiction
    • Pages: 1088
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 9780451191144
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    Globalization and its Discontents

    In a world knitted ever tighter by the threads of commerce and capital, Globalization and Its Discontents pulls back the curtain on the uneven bargains and broken promises of the global economy. With piercing clarity and moral urgency, it chronicles how international institutions meant to uplift the poor instead deepen their despair, as policies crafted in distant boardrooms unravel the lives of millions. Can a system that claims universality serve justice when its power is so unequally distributed—and whose voice counts when nations rise or fall on decisions they did not choose? This is not merely a critique, but a plea—for accountability, for empathy, and for a new vision of global prosperity rooted in dignity rather than dominance. It is a story of ambition betrayed, and of the silent rebellions that ripple through the streets of the global South.

    • Originally Published: 2002
    • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
    • Pages: 304
    • Genre: Non-Fiction
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0393324396
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    The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor

    Why do some markets hum with prosperity while others falter and fracture under pressure? The Truth About Markets is a sharp, thought-provoking journey through the beating heart of economic systems—from the corridors of Wall Street to the bazaars of emerging economies—exposing the myths, contradictions, and unexpected virtues of market behavior. With wit and precision, it dismantles the illusion of perfect rationality, revealing instead a world where culture, institutions, and human folly shape the destinies of nations. Is efficiency always the endgame—or might the most successful markets be those that are messier, more human, and less driven by cold equations? This book is both an intellectual provocation and a call to reimagine the values we assign to wealth, success, and collective good.

    • Originally Published: 2003
    • Publisher : Penguin, 2004
    • Genre: Non-fiction
    • Pages: 496
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13:  9780140296723
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    Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

    A biography not of a person, but of a relentless adversary, The Emperor of All Maladies charts the epic, often harrowing saga of cancer—from its shadowy origins in ancient texts to the modern laboratories where science battles fate. It is a tale of human defiance, where hope flickers in the corridors of hospitals and the minds of those daring to outwit a shape-shifting foe. How do we confront an enemy that is, in many ways, a distorted mirror of ourselves—our cells, our evolution, our very survival instinct gone rogue? Lyrical, haunting, and deeply humane, this is a chronicle of resilience, of the fragile victories and sobering costs that define the war against one of humanity’s oldest diseases.

    • Originally Published: 2011
    • Publisher : Fourth Estate, 2011
    • Genre: science
    • Pages: 586
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0007250929
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    Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

    What if the key to enduring chaos is not merely to withstand it—but to thrive because of it? In Antifragile, ideas crackle like lightning as it dismantles the illusion of stability and celebrates systems, individuals, and ideas that grow stronger under pressure, volatility, and disorder. Through paradox and provocation, it asks: Why worship resilience when you can embrace something better—something that feeds on uncertainty and emerges sharper, fiercer, and wiser? With a voice that is both incendiary and exacting, this book maps a radical philosophy for living wisely in a world that will never be safe, still, or predictable. It is not a manual for survival—but a manifesto for transcendence.

    • Originally Published: 2012
    • Publisher : Penguin Books, 2013
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 544
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0141038223
    • Access: Members
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    The Deals that Made the World

    Behind every headline, hidden in the fine print, are the deals that quietly shape the way we eat, work, love, and live. The Deals That Made the World peels back the polished surface of capitalism to expose the secret negotiations, corporate handshakes, and silent revolutions that have redrawn the global order. It asks a haunting question: if the rules of our lives are written in back rooms and boardrooms, whose interests do they truly serve? With the pace of a thriller and the insight of an exposé, this book turns the everyday into the extraordinary—and demands that we look again at the forces steering our fate.

    • Originally Published: 2017
    • Publisher : Hodder, 2018
    • Pages: 461
    • Genre: Business, Autobiography
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-1473646421
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    Why we Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

    Sleep—an elusive realm where the mind renews, memories crystallize, and the body silently wages its nightly war for survival. Why We Sleep unravels the profound mystery of this universal necessity, exposing how our modern neglect threatens the very fabric of health, creativity, and longevity. What if the most transformative act of self-care is something we do every night, yet understand so little? With scientific rigor and poetic insight, this book invites you to journey into the hidden world of sleep, challenging you to rethink the rhythms that sustain life itself.

    • Originally Published: 2017
    • Publisher : Penguin Books, 2018
    • Pages: 360
    • Genre: Science
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0141983769
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    Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

    In a world desperate for patterns, Fooled by Randomness delivers a sobering truth: much of what we call success is luck masquerading as skill. With sharp wit and intellectual daring, the book peels back the layers of financial markets, human behavior, and belief systems to reveal how easily we are deceived by noise dressed as signal. How many of our convictions rest not on reason, but on stories we tell ourselves after the fact? This is a mind-bending journey through uncertainty, where arrogance meets probability, and where humility may be the only reliable compass. It is a mirror held up to our illusions—inviting us not just to see the world differently, but to think more wisely within it.

    • Originally Published: 2001
    • Publisher: Penguin Books, 2007
    • Pages: 368
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0141031484
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    The Master and Margarita

    A mysterious foreigner arrives in Soviet Moscow—charming, diabolical, and accompanied by a talking cat with a taste for vodka—and soon reality begins to unravel. The Master and Margarita is a fever dream of love and damnation, where satire waltzes with the supernatural and truth is as dangerous as it is elusive. As a condemned writer and a fearless woman navigate a world haunted by betrayal, bureaucracy, and a whisper of the divine, the line between good and evil blurs like ink in water. Can love survive the tyranny of both politics and the soul? This is a novel where the devil gets the last laugh—and perhaps, the last mercy.

    • Originally Published: 1967
    • Publisher : Vintage Classics, 2024
    • Pages: 448
    • Genre: Romance novel, Satire, Fantasy
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0099540946
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    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    In the mythical town of Macondo, time coils in circles and generations of the Buendía family are caught in a spell of love, loss, and prophecy. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a lyrical epic where magic bleeds into the everyday, and history repeats itself with tragic elegance. Through political revolutions, spectral visitations, and forbidden passions, the novel asks: can a family escape the fate woven into its name—or is solitude the inheritance of memory itself? Lush, surreal, and aching with beauty, this is a story where the past never dies and the future is already written in the stars.

    • Originally Published: 1967
    • Publisher : Penguin Books, 2024
    • Pages: 422
    • Genre: Novel, Magical Realism, Family saga, Epic Fiction
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0241968581
    • Access: Members
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    Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

    Why did history unfold so differently across continents, and what silent forces shaped the fate of entire civilizations? Guns, Germs and Steel is a sweeping, sobering detective story of humanity’s uneven march through time—where geography, biology, and chance played far greater roles than genius or will. In tracing the roots of global inequality not to culture or intellect but to crops, microbes, and metal, it overturns long-held myths with unflinching clarity. This is not just a chronicle of conquests, but a meditation on the fragile accidents that shaped the modern world. What if the seeds of dominance were sown in the soil itself?

    • Originally Published: 1997
    • Publisher : Vintage, 2017
    • Pages: 580
    • Genre: Non-Fiction
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0099302780
    • Access: Members
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    Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent

    What if the true architects of global inequality wear no robes of office, but whisper behind closed doors, stitching loopholes into the fabric of the law? Capital Without Borders pulls back the velvet curtain on the elusive world of wealth managers—elite professionals who quietly move trillions through shadowy jurisdictions to preserve dynasties and defy the very notion of the nation-state. This is a journey into the parallel universe of the ultra-rich, where borders are illusions and accountability dissolves into strategy. In mapping this discreet empire, the book confronts an unsettling question: can democracy endure when capital plays by its own rules?

    • Originally Published: 2016
    • Publisher : Harvard University Press, 2020
    • Pages: 400
    • Genre: Finance
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0674244771
    • Access: Members
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    The Social Contract

    What does it mean to be free in a world bound by law? The Social Contract dares to reimagine society as a pact not of submission, but of collective will—where individuals, by surrendering to the “general will,” reclaim a deeper liberty. With the cadence of a manifesto and the gravity of prophecy, Rousseau’s vision pulses with the paradox of freedom through unity, obedience through autonomy. Can a people truly govern themselves without becoming each other’s tyrants? This is a call to awaken the sovereign within us all.

    • Originally Published: 1762
    • Publisher : Penguin Books, 2005
    • Pages: 168
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0141018881
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    Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    Why do some nations flourish while others are trapped in cycles of poverty and decay? Why Nations Fail cuts through geography, culture, and chance to expose the raw machinery of power—where inclusive institutions build prosperity and extractive ones hollow it out. With the force of a grand detective story, it reveals how empires collapse not from outside threats, but from within, when the few prey upon the many. Can a society rewrite its destiny, or are its failures hardwired into the very rules it lives by? This is a journey into the heart of inequality—and a blueprint for those bold enough to change it.

    • Originally Published: 2012
    • Publisher : Crown Currency, 2013
    • Pages: 544
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0307719225
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    By : Homer

    The Odyssey

    Across storm-tossed seas and shadowed isles, The Odyssey charts the perilous return of Odysseus, a cunning warrior who longs for the warmth of his hearth more than the glory of conquest. As gods conspire and monsters stir, every step homeward becomes a trial of spirit, loyalty, and the fragile line between heroism and hubris. Beneath its epic sweep lies a haunting question: how much must a man lose to truly know himself—and what awaits when he does? Laced with enchantment and anchored in longing, this ancient tale pulses with the timeless ache of exile and the stubborn hope of return.

    • Originally Published: 800 B.C.E
    • Publisher : Everyman’s Library, 1992
    • Pages: 509
    • Genre: Narrative Poetry, Epic
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-1857150940
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    The Idiot

    In a world driven by vanity, power, and concealed wounds, what place is there for pure goodness? The Idiot follows Prince Myshkin—a man of childlike honesty and saintly compassion—whose return to Russian society sets off a quiet storm of obsession, betrayal, and unspoken despair. As he moves through a web of wounded souls and fevered passions, his innocence becomes both a beacon and a curse, casting light on the madness that masquerades as reason. Is it folly to live with an unguarded heart—or is it the only form of sanity left? With haunting tenderness and tragic irony, this luminous novel exposes the cruel bewilderment of a society that cannot recognize grace, even as it longs for it.

    • Originally Published: 1869
    • Publisher : Everyman’s Library, 2002
    • Pages: 632
    • Genre: Novel
    • Book Type: Hardcopy/Hardcover
    • ISBN-13: 978-1857152548
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    Measure What Matters: OKRs – The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth

    What if the secret to achieving bold dreams lies not in working harder, but in choosing what to measure—and what to ignore? Measure What Matters unveils the power of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), a deceptively simple system that has propelled visionary teams toward clarity, alignment, and unstoppable momentum. With real-world stories of ambition wrestled into focus, the book invites readers into boardrooms where ideas live or die by the metrics that define them. In a world drowning in data but starved for direction, can the right goal-setting framework spark both performance and purpose? Clear-eyed and compelling, this is a blueprint for anyone determined not just to move fast, but to move true.

    • Originally Published: 2017
    • Publisher : Penguin Business, 2018
    • Pages: 306
    • Genre: Business
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0241348482
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    The Alchemy of Finance

    What if the markets are not machines of logic, but mirrors of our deepest fears, hopes, and illusions? The Alchemy of Finance peels back the polished surface of economic theory to reveal a volatile world shaped as much by perception as by reality. Through the lens of reflexivity—a daring theory that turns traditional finance on its head—the book explores how human bias fuels booms and busts, and how understanding that chaos can become a source of extraordinary insight. Is it possible to profit from uncertainty not by mastering it, but by dancing with it? Both philosophical and razor-sharp, this is a provocative invitation to rethink what we believe about money, markets, and the minds that move them.

    • Originally Published: 1987
    • Publisher : Wiley, 2015
    • Pages: 416
    • Genre: Finance, Investing, Markets
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0-471-44549-4
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    Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

    In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, artificial intelligence, and global entanglements, Nexus dares to ask: what does it mean to be human when every frontier—biological, technological, and ideological—collides? With lucid urgency, the book maps the shifting currents that bind data to power, consciousness to code, and ancient instincts to modern dilemmas. It is not a tale of answers, but of unsettling clarity, where the questions themselves become a mirror to our time: Can we master the tools we’ve built—or are we simply becoming extensions of them? At once sweeping and intimate, Nexus is a meditation on connection in the age of disconnection—a call to navigate the future with both reason and responsibility.

    • Originally Published: 2024
    • Publisher : Random House, 2024
    • Pages: 492
    • Genre: History
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0593736814
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    We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine

    In We Who Wrestle with God, the battlefield is not the heavens, but the human soul—torn between chaos and order, doubt and belief, suffering and meaning. With the gravitas of myth and the precision of psychological insight, the book journeys through ancient scripture, personal trial, and cultural unrest to confront an ageless dilemma: how does one live rightly in a world riddled with pain and contradiction? Every page pulses with the tension between the divine and the broken, between the longing to believe and the refusal to submit blindly. Can the act of wrestling with God itself be the path to transcendence? Bold, unflinching, and deeply humane, this is a spiritual odyssey for the modern age.

    • Originally Published: 2024
    • Publisher : Allen Lane, 2024
    • Pages: 544
    • Genre: Psychology, Philosophy, Religious Studies
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0241619636
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    Pride & Prejudice

    In a world where marriage is both a social ladder and a battlefield, Pride & Prejudice unfolds as a sparkling duel of intellect, wit, and wounded hearts. Elizabeth Bennet, fierce in mind and spirit, meets her match in the proud and enigmatic Mr. Darcy—yet behind their verbal skirmishes lies a deeper reckoning with class, character, and the illusions we cast on others and ourselves. Can love survive first impressions, or is true intimacy only forged through humility and hard-won understanding? With its graceful prose and sharp social commentary, this is a tale where decorum masks desire, and every glance or silence carries the weight of unspoken truths. Elegant, biting, and deeply human, it is a love story that resists simplicity—just like the people at its heart.

    • Originally Published: 1813
    • Publisher : Wordsworth Classics, 1993
    • Pages: 325
    • Genre: Fiction, Romance novel, Satire, Regency romance, Novel of manners
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-1853260001
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    The Great Gatsby

    A glittering mansion, a mysterious millionaire, and a love that haunts the edges of every champagne-soaked evening—The Great Gatsby is a lyrical elegy for the American Dream and the illusions we chase in its name. Through the eyes of a quiet outsider, we are drawn into the world of Jay Gatsby, a man who builds his fortune not for power or glory, but for a woman he lost long ago. Beneath the dazzle of Jazz Age opulence lies a tale of longing, betrayal, and the quiet ache of dreams deferred. Can one truly rewrite the past—or does the past rewrite us? Fitzgerald’s novel is both seduction and lament, a mirror held up to the heart’s most extravagant hopes.

    • Originally Published: 1925
    • Publisher : Vintage Classics, 2010
    • Genre: Novel, Tragedy
    • Pages: 148
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 9780099541530
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    Death of a Salesman

    In Death of a Salesman, the quiet tragedy of the American Dream unfolds through the fractured life of Willy Loman—a man chasing success with empty hands and fading hope. Haunted by memory and illusion, he wanders the wreckage of his past, measuring his worth in missed opportunities and imagined glory. As family and reality close in, the question echoes: what remains of a man who stakes his identity on a dream that never loved him back? Miller crafts a sorrowful, aching portrait of ambition, delusion, and the cost of needing to matter. This is not just the story of one salesman’s downfall—it is a mirror held to a society that sells identity for applause.

    • Originally Published: 1949
    • Publisher : Fingerprint Classics, 2017
    • Genre: Tragedy
    • Pages: 136
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-8175994300
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    Jude the Obscure

    In Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy traces the aching path of a man whose dreams of learning, love, and belonging crumble beneath the grinding weight of class, convention, and fate. Jude Fawley, a stonemason with the soul of a scholar, reaches toward the promise of knowledge and connection, only to find himself punished for daring to hope beyond his station. At once tender and merciless, the novel asks: what becomes of a heart that dares to defy the world’s design, only to be shattered by it? Hardy delivers a bleak, unflinching meditation on aspiration and despair, where love is both salvation and ruin, and idealism can be the most tragic burden of all. This is not merely the story of a man—but of humanity caught between what it is and what it longs to be.

    • Originally Published: 1895
    • Publisher : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993
    • Genre: Novel
    • Pages: 376
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-1853262616
    • Access: Members
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    The Naked Ape

    The Naked Ape peels back the veneer of civilization to reveal humanity in its rawest, most primal form—an intricate dance of instincts, desires, and survival etched deep within our biology. Through sharp observation and vivid analogy, it challenges us to confront the paradox of a species both marvelously evolved and perpetually at odds with its own nature. What truths lie hidden beneath our skin, and how does understanding our animal origins reshape the story we tell about ourselves? This provocative exploration invites readers to reconsider what it truly means to be human, caught between instinct and intellect, flesh and culture.

    • Originally Published: 1967
    • Publisher : Vintage, 2005
    • Genre: Sociology
    • Pages: 192
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0099482017
    • Access: Members