#generalfiction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #generalfiction, aggregated by home.social.
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📚 Trouble with Lichen by: John Wyndham
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an oppo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/trouble-with-lichen
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #geneticengineering
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📚 Trouble with Lichen by: John Wyndham
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an oppo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/trouble-with-lichen
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #geneticengineering
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📚 Trouble with Lichen by: John Wyndham
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an oppo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/trouble-with-lichen
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #geneticengineering
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📚 Trouble with Lichen by: John Wyndham
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an oppo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/trouble-with-lichen
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #geneticengineering
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📚 Trouble with Lichen by: John Wyndham
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an oppo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/trouble-with-lichen
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #geneticengineering
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📚 The Cure for Drowning by: Loghan Paylor
Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since, at ten, they fell through the river ice and drowned—only to be nursed back to life by their mother's Celtic magic. A daredevil in boy's clothes, Kit chafes...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-cure-for-drowning
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #lgbtq #generalfiction #historical #20thcentury
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📚 Une unique lueur by: Fred Vargas
- Vous avez regardé les photos, Danglard ? De la scène du crime ? Demanda Adamsberg.
- Cela va de soi.
- Et donc ? Cela vous dit quelque chose ? Parce qu’à moi, oui.
- Tiens. Et cela vous raconte quoi ?
- Mais justement, rien. C’est quelque chose que je ne sais pas alors que cela me di...https://bookblabla.com/book/une-unique-lueur
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #generalfiction #crimefiction #crime
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📚 Stakeouts and Strollers by: Rob Phillips
Charlie Shaw is low on sleep. And cash. Otherwise, life is going pretty well for the ex-crime reporter: he’s happily married to his college sweetheart, he’s a first-time dad to the most adorable baby girl in existence, and he’s making ends meet as a rookie P...
https://bookblabla.com/book/stakeouts-and-strollers
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #mysterydetective #generalfiction #cozy #privateinvestigators
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📚 When the Cranes Fly South by: Lisa Ridzén
Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company, though now his son, wi...
https://bookblabla.com/book/when-the-cranes-fly-south
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #generalfiction #friendshipfiction #animals
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📚 Lost Lambs by: Madeline Cash
The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime West Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an onlin...
https://bookblabla.com/book/lost-lambs
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #familylife #generalfiction
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📚 This Book Is Full of Spiders by: Jason Pargin, David Wong
Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.
You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection, the ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-book-is-full-of-spiders
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #humorous #thrillers
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📚 Skirting Danger by: Kay Keppler
Suspended for a hunch gone wrong, CIA language analyst Phoebe Renfrew is desperate to get her job back. But when she uncovers a terrorist plot at a Las Vegas start-up car company owned by famed ex-quarterback Chase Bonaventure, no one listens to her.
The CIA doesn't care, the FBI is too busy, and th...
https://bookblabla.com/book/skirting-danger
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #romance #romanticcomedy
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📚 Skirting Danger by: Kay Keppler
Suspended for a hunch gone wrong, CIA language analyst Phoebe Renfrew is desperate to get her job back. But when she uncovers a terrorist plot at a Las Vegas start-up car company owned by famed ex-quarterback Chase Bonaventure, no one listens to her.
The CIA doesn't care, the FBI is too busy, and th...
https://bookblabla.com/book/skirting-danger
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #romance #romanticcomedy
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📚 Twist by: Colum McCann
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfath...
https://bookblabla.com/book/twist
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #familylife #generalfiction #psychological
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📚 I Who Have Never Known Men (B&N Exclusive Edition) by: Jacqueline Harpman
As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others...
https://bookblabla.com/book/i-who-have-never-known-men-bn-exclusive-edition
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #literaryfiction #dystopianfiction #feminist
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📚 Women of a Promiscuous Nature by: Donna Everhart
On a brisk February morning while walking to the diner where she works, 24 year-old Ruth Foster is stopped by the local sheriff. He insists she accompany him to a health clinic, threatening to arrest her if she doesn't undergo testing in order to preserv...
https://bookblabla.com/book/women-of-a-promiscuous-nature
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #20thcentury #generalfiction #southernfiction
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📚 I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by: Robert Brockway
To bright and anxious eight-year-old Kay Washington, the worst thing in the world is being alone with the quiet. That's why Eddie Video makes the perfect imaginary friend: He's smart, he's loud, he loves pulling pranks, and he's always there...
https://bookblabla.com/book/i-will-kill-your-imaginary-friend-for-200
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #humorous #darkhumor
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📚 The Green Mile by: Stephen King
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk 'the Green Mile', the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final meeting with Old Sparky, Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-green-mile
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #fantasy #historicalfiction #horror #generalfiction
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📚 This House Will Feed by: Maria Tureaud
County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no futur...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #gothicfiction #historical #generalfiction #horror
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📚 This House Will Feed by: Maria Tureaud
County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no futur...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #gothicfiction #historical #generalfiction #horror
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📚 This House Will Feed by: Maria Tureaud
County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no futur...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #gothicfiction #historical #generalfiction #horror
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📚 This House Will Feed by: Maria Tureaud
County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no futur...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #gothicfiction #historical #generalfiction #horror
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📚 This House Will Feed by: Maria Tureaud
County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no futur...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #gothicfiction #historical #generalfiction #horror
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📚 Keeper of Lost Children by: Sadeqa Johnson
Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GI’s, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes.
P...
https://bookblabla.com/book/keeper-of-lost-children
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #generalfiction #womenfiction
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📚 People Like Us by: Jason Mott
In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics ab...
https://bookblabla.com/book/people-like-us
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #generalfiction #southern
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📚 Land of Dreams by: Gian Sardar
It's 1933, and though the country is stuck in the Great Depression, movies are the ultimate escape. But Hollywood is skilled at selling lies, and nothing is as it seems.
Frankie Donnelly is scrappy, smart, and ambitious. Her knack for spinning any story into stellar publicity has made...
https://bookblabla.com/book/land-of-dreams
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #20thcentury #generalfiction #mysterydetective
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📚 Hollow by: Celina Myers
Mia Adair isn't even twenty-five yet, but she's starting to wonder if her peak has already passed. She’s spent years working at her local bookstore, a job that was supposed to be temporary. As a kid, she experienced a strange sort of fame within the paranormal community thanks to her inclusion in a book that rev...
https://bookblabla.com/book/hollow
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #romance #paranormal
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📚 Snow Crash by: Neal Stephenson
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions.
Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defe...
https://bookblabla.com/book/snow-crash
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #cyberpunkfiction #actionadventure
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📚 The Mountain in the Sea by: Ray Nayler
The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching c...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-mountain-in-the-sea
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #thrillers #technologicalfiction
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📚 A Gentleman in Moscow by: Amor Towles
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his lif...
https://bookblabla.com/book/a-gentleman-in-moscow
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #generalfiction #literaryfiction #political
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📚 The Day of the Triffids by: John Wyndham
When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen one of the lucky few to wake up with his sight—finds himself trapped in a London packed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. With civilization in chaos, the tr...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-day-of-the-triffids
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #apocalypticpostapocalyptic
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📚 Seascraper by: Benjamin Wood
Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the drizzly shore to scrape for shrimp, and spends the afternoon selling his wares, trying to wash...
https://bookblabla.com/book/seascraper
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #historical #generalfiction #familylife
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📚 Pachinko by: Min Jin Lee
Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant, and that her lover is married, she refuses to be bought.
Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing thro...
https://bookblabla.com/book/pachinko
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #generalfiction #romance #historical
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📚 Pines by: Blake Crouch
One way in. No way out.
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, n...
https://bookblabla.com/book/pines
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #technologicalfiction #horror #generalfiction
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📚 A Midlife Holiday by: Cary J. Hansson
Meet Helen. She worries that the walls are closing in. With her children grown and her selfish husband away again, she's full of regrets at not taking the exciting paths she dreamed about in her youth. So when the chance of a last-minute holiday to Cyprus with her two best friends i...
https://bookblabla.com/book/a-midlife-holiday
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #humorous #womenfiction #friendship
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📚 Piranesi by: Susanna Clarke
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he...
https://bookblabla.com/book/piranesi
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #fantasy #generalfiction #general
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📚 Cursed Daughters by: Oyinkan Braithwaite
When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actu...
https://bookblabla.com/book/cursed-daughters-a-read-with-jenna-pick
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #generalfiction #womenfiction #literary
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📚 The High Mountains of Portugal by: Yann Martel
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this stran...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-high-mountains-of-portugal
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #generalfiction #literaryfiction #places
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📚 The Underground Railroad by: Colson Whitehead
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently ...
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #historical #generalfiction #general
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📚 Snap by: Susin Nielsen
Frances Partridge, fifty-five, is a beloved children’s author. Geraint Blevins, forty-one, is an auto mechanic and devoted family man. Parker Poplawski, twenty-three, is just starting her career as a wardrobe assistant on a hit TV show. What do these people have in common?
Nothing, that’s what. Until...
https://bookblabla.com/book/snap
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #friendshipfiction #familylife #generalfiction #humorous
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📚 Remarkably Bright Creatures by: Shelby Van Pelt
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanish...
https://bookblabla.com/book/remarkably-bright-creatures
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #generalfiction #friendshipfiction #cozyfiction
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📚 The Names by: Florence Knapp
It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends for her to follow a long-standing family tradition and call the baby after him. But when faced with the decision, Cora hesitates. ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-names
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #familylife #multigenerationalfiction #worldliterature
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📚 Helm by: Sarah Hall
Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and awe, part-elemental god, part-aerial demon blasting through the sublime landscape of Northern England since the dawn of time.
Through the stories of those who’ve obsessed over Helm, an extraordinary history is formed: the Neolithic t...
https://bookblabla.com/book/helm
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #historical #generalfiction #worldliterature
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📚 The Paris Express by: Emma Donoghue
Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany and as far as Ru...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-paris-express
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #generalfiction #literaryfiction #worldliterature
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📚 Small Boat by: Vincent Delecroix
November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen?
Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British water...
https://bookblabla.com/book/small-boat
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #literaryfiction #worldliterature #france
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📚 A Sudden Light by: Garth Stein
Twenty-three years after the fateful summer of 1990, Trevor Riddell recalls the events surrounding his fourteenth birthday, when he gets his first glimpse of the infamous Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of gi...
https://bookblabla.com/book/a-sudden-light
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #ghostfiction #literaryfiction #familylife