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4 days ago · The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. A shipwrecked man is rescued by a passing boat and deposited on the eponymous island of Wells’s Sci-Fi classic. As in Taranto’s novel, Moreau’s island is the home of an exiled scientist, beleaguered for his vivisectional experiments on humans and animals. And as in many novels on this list, an ...
2 days ago · November 20, 2023 • Books We Love returns with 380+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 11 years of recommendations all in one place – that's more than 3,600 great ...
15 hours ago · When Opal’s lottery win ends up being more trouble than it’s worth, she buys a failing flower farm in North Carolina and flees her regular life. One problem: Pepper, Opal’s complete opposite ...
5 days ago · Red Island house : a novel [2021] Andrea Lee. Book. Dear Haiti, love Alaine [2019] Maika Moulite. Book. One night on the island : a novel [2022] Josie Silver. Book.
5 days ago · In the novel, a judge orders the befuddled white-collar antihero, Giles Gibson, to leave Manhattan to work for minimum wage in the rural Oregon town where his negligence resulted in tragedy. Unlike Giles, Lane chose her own move, pushing back against longstanding fears.
1 day ago · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
4 days ago · By Allan Massie. Published 16th May 2024, 15:08 BST. Updated 17th May 2024, 11:42 BST. Long Island, a sequel 20 years on to Colm Tóibín’s most popular novel Brooklyn, begins strikingly with a...
