You Are a Badass
Broke writer to coach shares money beliefs, rate raises, and daily actions with humor and homework.
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Aomame slips into a Tokyo with two moons while Tengo rewrites a strange girl's novel, and their childhood bond pulls tight.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
A black slab nudges apes to tools, calls Floyd to the Moon, and pulls Bowman past HAL toward Saturn and a strange rebirth.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
Ignatius J. Reilly, jobless and full of opinions in New Orleans, meets work, his mother, and the law in Toole's posthumous Pulitzer winner.
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A Little Princess
Rich Sara Crewe loses her father and fortune at boarding school, survives the attic on stories and kindness, and is rescued from next door.
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A Monster Calls
A grieving boy is visited at 12:07 by a yew tree monster whose three tales force his hidden truth about his mother's illness.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Wheelwright believes in God because of Owen Meany, the tiny friend whose foul ball killed his mother.
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A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
Blanche DuBois moves in with Stella and Stanley in New Orleans while her past closes in, plus two more Williams plays.
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A Wizard of Earthsea
A proud goatherd becomes the wizard Ged, looses a shadow at Roke, and must hunt it across Earthsea to name it. Le Guin's lean 1968 series opener.
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American Psycho
Patrick Bateman hides violent urges behind suits and reservations in Ellis's 1991 satire of 1980s Manhattan wealth, brands, and moral blankness.
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An Ember in the Ashes
Laia spies inside Blackcliff to save her brother while Elias, its finest soldier, plots desertion, until the Trials force them together.
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Artemis
Jazz Bashara, a porter and small-time smuggler in the Moon city Artemis, takes a sabotage job that drags her into a fight for the city.
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Babel
A Chinese orphan trained in translation magic at Oxford must choose between empire and resistance as Britain drives toward war with China.
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Bel Canto
An opera singer and a Japanese executive are taken hostage at a birthday party, and months of captivity turn into music, routine, and love.
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Beowulf
An anonymous Old English epic in Heaney's Norton translation: Beowulf faces Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon across a lifetime of fame and cost.
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Betrayed
Zoey leads the Dark Daughters while human teens die near Tulsa, and her best friend's death exposes a cruel secret inside the House of Night.
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty retold in his own voice, from Birtwick Park to London cabs, through hard owners and kind hands.
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Blindness
A white blindness sweeps a city, and an eye doctor's wife who can still see guides seven strangers through camp and ruin.
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Blood Promise
Rose crosses Siberia to stake Strigoi Dimitri while Lissa faces a hidden spirit user at school.
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Butcher & Blackbird
Two rival killers who only murder other killers meet once a year for a deadly contest, then slowly fall for each other in this dark romantic comedy.
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Candide
Voltaire's Candide follows a sheltered boy across earthquakes, wars, and Eldorado as his tutor's sunny optimism falls apart. Short, savage, and still funny.
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Carry On
Simon Snow returns to Watford for his last year as a failing Chosen One, with his roommate Baz missing and the Humdrum wearing his face.
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City of Girls
City of Girls retold: a Vassar dropout, a shabby theater, one scandal, and a love like no other.
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Convenience Store Woman
At 36, Keiko has worked at a Tokyo convenience store for 18 years and loves it. Family pressure to marry pushes her toward a strange fake partnership.
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