• Lolita
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    Lolita

    In Lolita, desire dresses itself in the language of poetry, seduction veils cruelty, and obsession charts a cross-country odyssey through the haunted corridors of memory and guilt. With a voice as dazzling as it is disturbing, the unreliable narrator invites readers into a dark reverie where beauty becomes a battleground and innocence is never what it seems. Is it possible to separate the elegance of expression from the moral abyss it describes? Nabokov’s masterpiece dares us to confront the disquieting allure of language and the treacherous edges of love, power, and delusion. A lyrical descent into one man’s self-deception, Lolita leaves the reader spellbound—and unsettled.

    • Originally Published: 1955
    • Publisher: Penguin, 2011
    • Genre: Novel
    • Pages: 368
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0241953242
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  • The 48 Laws of Power
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    The 48 Laws of Power

    In the ruthless theater of ambition, The 48 Laws of Power is both a mirror and a map—a compendium of strategies drawn from the shadows of court intrigue, battlefield cunning, and boardroom calculation. With each law, a mask is lifted, revealing the mechanics of manipulation, the seduction of influence, and the quiet violence of control. Can one master power without becoming its prisoner? Stark, provocative, and unapologetically amoral, this book does not ask you to play fair—it demands you decide whether to play at all. It is a handbook for those who wish not merely to survive, but to dominate.

    • Originally Published: 1998
    • Publisher: Profile Books, 2000
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 452
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1861972781
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  • Letters from a Stoic
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    Letters from a Stoic

    Letters from a Stoic is a quiet thunderclap—a collection of soul-deep meditations penned from the heart of an empire and the edge of mortality. In these letters, wisdom flows like a river through hardship, power, loss, and longing, offering not certainty but serenity. How does one remain unshaken in a world that trembles with fortune and fate? With luminous clarity and unflinching calm, this work invites you to step beyond the noise of ambition and into the silence where virtue becomes strength. It is not merely a guide to living, but a companion for enduring.

    • Originally Published: 65 AD
    • Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1969
    • Genre: Philosophy
    • Pages: 254
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0140442106
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  • On Earth as It Is on Television
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    On Earth as It Is on Television

    When mysterious alien ships appear over Earth and vanish without explanation, humanity is left not with answers, but with questions—and a gnawing sense of cosmic irrelevance. In On Earth as It Is on Television, Emily Jane crafts a tender, absurdist tapestry of modern life, where suburban dads unravel, teenagers drift through existential ennui, and even cats seem to know more than they let on. Through shifting perspectives and sly humor, the novel explores how ordinary people navigate the extraordinary—and how the real invasion might be the one inside us all. Is the universe trying to tell us something, or are we simply too distracted to listen?

    • Originally Published: June 2023
    • Publisher: Hyperion Avenue, 2023
    • Genre: Novel, Sci-Fi
    • Pages: 352
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1368092999
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  • The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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    The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    In a world dulled by apathy and despair, one man—deemed ridiculous by all, including himself—stands on the brink of ending his life. But a strange dream carries him far beyond death, into a vision of radiant truth and heartbreaking corruption, where innocence once bloomed and was then destroyed by the very minds meant to cherish it. The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man is a luminous fable of redemption, madness, and metaphysical wonder, pulsing with the fire of a soul awakening to love and meaning. Can a single dream transform a life deemed worthless—and if so, why do we so often sleep through our own salvation? This brief tale grips like a parable and lingers like a wound, asking what it truly means to be human in a fractured world.

    • Originally Published: 1877
    • Published: Createspace Independent Pub, 2016
    • Genre: Short Story, Philosophy
    • Pages: 26
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1535469142
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  • Beyond Good and Evil
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    Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

    With a blade sharpened by irony and insight, Beyond Good and Evil tears through the comfortable illusions of morality, truth, and human greatness. In this audacious philosophical voyage, the reader is invited to abandon inherited certainties and peer into the abyss of power, instinct, and will. Is our conscience a noble guide—or a cage built by forgotten tyrants of thought? With lightning-bolt aphorisms and searing clarity, this work dares us to rethink the foundations of justice, virtue, and even the self. It is not a map, but a mirror—reflecting who we are, and who we might become when we step beyond the veil of good and evil.

    • Originally Published: 1886
    • Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002
    • Genre: Philosophy
    • Pages: 230
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0521779135
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  • The Catcher in the Rye
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    The Catcher in the Rye

    Wandering the gray streets of New York in a haze of grief and rebellion, Holden Caulfield speaks with a voice both raw and strangely tender—part confession, part cry for meaning in a world grown false. The Catcher in the Rye captures the ache of adolescence with uncanny precision: the longing to protect innocence, the fury at adult hypocrisy, the weight of a mind unraveling under truth too heavy to bear. Is Holden escaping the world, or is he the only one awake enough to see it clearly? With sardonic humor and aching vulnerability, this coming-of-age tale unfolds like a whispered secret between strangers who never quite belong. It is not just a story—it is a mirror for those who have ever walked alone, wondering where the honest people went.

    • Originally Published: July 1951
    • Publisher: Penguin, 1994
    • Genre: Novel
    • Pages: 192
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0140237504
    • Access: Members
  • Animal Farm
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    Animal Farm

    On a quiet farm, where the animals rise in revolt against their human masters, an ideal of freedom is born—only to curdle into tyranny beneath the hoofprints of power. Animal Farm is a fable sharpened into a political blade, where noble dreams decay into slogans, and those who promise equality learn to walk upright over the backs of others. How does liberation become a new form of control, and why do the oppressed so often trade one master for another? With deceptively simple prose and chilling clarity, this tale reveals that the most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. A story for every age, it asks: who truly governs when all are supposed to be free?

    • Originally Published: August 1945
    • Genre: Novella, Political Satire
    • Pages: 101
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 9780451526342
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  • Little Women
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    Little Women

    Little Women is a tender, richly woven portrait of four spirited sisters growing up amid the quiet trials and radiant joys of family life during a time of war and want. Through laughter, loss, and the slow unfolding of dreams, the March girls wrestle with the meaning of womanhood, ambition, sacrifice, and love. What does it mean to grow into oneself while remaining bound by the invisible threads of home? With warmth and wisdom, the story invites readers into a world where the everyday becomes epic—and where the greatest adventures begin at the hearth. It is a novel that speaks softly yet lingers like a beloved memory.

    • Originally Published: 1868
    • Publisher: Aladdin, 2019
    • Genre: Novel
    • Pages: 530
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1534462205
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  • The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov-HC
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    The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov is a tempest of faith, passion, and blood—where three brothers, torn by guilt, desire, and spiritual hunger, are drawn into a patricide that becomes a mirror for their own souls. Beneath the mystery of their father’s violent death lies a deeper trial: of God, of free will, and of the human heart’s capacity for both light and depravity. Can love redeem the chaos we inherit, or is every soul bound to wrestle alone with the divine and the absurd? Lyrical and relentless, this epic unearths the moral labyrinth at the core of every family—and every man. A novel as intimate as a confession and as vast as a cathedral.

    • Originally Published: November 1880
    • Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2003
    • Genre: Novel
    • Pages: 1056
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0679410034
    • Access: Prime Membership
  • The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time
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    The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    Can we end poverty—not in theory, but in our lifetime? The End of Poverty charts a daring and data-driven journey through the heart of global suffering, revealing how economic despair is not an inevitable fate but a solvable problem. With clarity and urgency, it exposes the hidden mechanics that trap nations in extreme deprivation and unveils a roadmap of practical solutions that challenge apathy and resignation. This is not just an economic treatise—it is a call to moral action, a testament to the possibility that with enough resolve, compassion, and precision, humanity can lift its most vulnerable beyond survival into dignity. What does it say about us if we can rescue the poor—and choose not to?

    • Originally Published: December 2005
    • Publisher: Penguin Books, 2006
    • Genre: Economics, Politics
    • Pages: 464
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0143036586
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  • Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of NeoliberalismGlobalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
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    Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

    The Globalists pulls back the curtain on a powerful, often invisible movement—one that sought not to dismantle the nation-state, but to encase it in a legal and economic armor that would protect markets from the turbulence of democracy. Through the rise of neoliberal thought in the 20th century, it tells the provocative story of economists and visionaries who believed freedom was best safeguarded not by parliaments, but by institutions beyond the reach of the people. Can true democracy survive when sovereignty is traded for stability, and when markets are placed beyond the will of the majority? With piercing clarity and unsettling relevance, this book traces the quiet construction of a global order designed not for chaos—but for control. It is the intellectual history of a world remade behind closed doors.

    • Originally Published: March 2018
    • Publisher: Harvard University Press
    • Published: March 16, 2018
    • Genre: Neoliberalism
    • Pages: 400
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0674979529
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  • Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
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    Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

    In Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, the flags may have changed, but the power still flows from the same hands. With surgical precision and revolutionary fire, this book unveils how economic control, foreign aid, and multinational influence have replaced the old chains of empire with new, invisible shackles. If independence is declared but decisions are made abroad, can freedom truly be said to exist? It is a searing exposé of betrayal cloaked in diplomacy, where the promise of sovereignty is bartered for dependency. Through every page, the reader is challenged to ask: who profits when the colonizer never leaves—but merely changes form?

    • Originally Published: 1965
    • Publisher: Panaf, 2009
    • Genre: Non-fiction
    • Pages: 316
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0901787231
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  • How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth CenturyHow to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
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    How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

    How to Be a Dictator is a chilling descent into the architecture of absolute power—where fear is sculpted into law, truth is strangled by spectacle, and the cult of personality drowns all dissent. Through eight harrowing portraits, it reveals how tyrants rise not solely by force, but by mastering the dark alchemy of propaganda, surveillance, and manufactured devotion. What kind of world emerges when one man becomes the nation, the voice of the people silenced beneath a single echo? At once gripping and unsettling, this book asks readers to confront the fragile boundary between order and oppression, and to see in history’s monsters the reflection of our collective vulnerability. It is not merely a study of despots—it is a warning whispered through time.

    • Originally Published: 2019
    • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
    • Genre: Politics, History
    • Pages: 304
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1408891612
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  • The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
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    The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth

    The Looting Machine exposes a brutal paradox at the heart of Africa’s richest resource states: how nations teeming with oil, diamonds, and minerals can remain shackled by poverty, violence, and decay. With the urgency of investigative reportage and the gravity of a political thriller, the book maps a continent-wide system where global corporations, corrupt elites, and shadowy networks turn natural wealth into a curse. Can a land so rich be so poor by accident—or is the suffering by design? As veins of gold and crude are drained from beneath the soil, this powerful account compels readers to question who truly profits and who is left to bleed. It is a story of power without accountability and prosperity built on the silence of the exploited.

    • Originally Published: May 2015
    • Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2016
    • Genre: Economics, History
    • Pages: 368
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1610397117
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  • Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
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    Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis

    Currency Wars is a chilling dispatch from the hidden battlefield where nations clash not with bombs, but with bonds, reserves, and manipulated exchange rates. In this high-stakes realm of shadow finance and strategic deception, currencies are weapons, and economic collapse is a silent coup. As the world’s financial system teeters on the edge of engineered chaos, one question rises: can a nation defend its sovereignty when its money becomes its most vulnerable flank? Rickards draws the reader into a world where monetary policy is modern warfare, and the victors may not fire a single shot—but leave entire economies in ruins. Gripping and sobering, this is a call to understand the quiet violence of global finance before its consequences become deafening.

    • Originally Published: Nov 2011
    • Publisher: Portfolio, 2012
    • Genre: Global Finance
    • Pages: 320
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1591845560
    • Access: Members