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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
- 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
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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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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
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The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses unfolds like a kaleidoscope of identities and beliefs, where two men—cast adrift from life and faith—navigate a fractured world of exile, memory, and transformation. Blending myth and reality with a lyrical, sometimes incendiary voice, the narrative probes the fragile boundaries between doubt and devotion, truth and illusion. What happens when the sacred collides with the profane, and the self must confront the shadow of its own fractured soul? This provocative journey challenges readers to reconsider the power of stories, the nature of faith, and the cost of freedom in a world that demands both conformity and rebellion.
- Originally Published: 1988
- Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2008
- Genre: Fiction, Magical Realism
- Pages: 576
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780812976717
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The Secret History
Under the ivy-clad walls of an elite New England college, a group of brilliant misfits seeks beauty, transcendence—and commits an unthinkable act. The Secret History is a haunting descent into the intoxicating world of ancient ideals and modern guilt, where intellect collides with morality and the line between admiration and obsession dissolves. As their secret begins to unravel, one must ask: can you study the sublime without becoming monstrous yourself? Tartt’s lyrical prose casts a long, elegant shadow, inviting readers to peer into the darkness behind knowledge and the price of belonging. This is a story not just of murder, but of how easily we can lose ourselves in the pursuit of something greater.
- Originally Published: 1992
- Publisher: Penguin General UK, 2002
- Genre: Psychological Fiction
- Pages: 640
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780140167771
- Access: Members