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"Flowers for Algernon" follows the story of Charlie, a mentally handicapped man who is the first human test subject in an experimental surgery that artificially increases intelligence. After seeing his IQ go from 68 to 185 following the surgery, Charlie loses the ability to socialize normally and becomes alienated from those around him. As Charlie begins to learn the truth behind the effects of the surgery — as seen through the reaction of a mouse test subject named Algernon — he is struck with the weight of how this procedure may ruin is life.
About a 16-year-old who, after discovering her mother is missing, meets up with her father, a super spy who didn't realize he had a daughter. The father and daughter embark in a mission to save the mother, stopping a Caribbean crime lord in the process.
Switters, the protagonist, is an errand boy for the CIA, a secret lover of Broadway show tunes and a pedophile. On assignment in Peru (he has been ordered to verify the philosophical commitment of a new CIA recruit), Switters encounters a Kandakandero medicine man who gives him mind-altering drugs and wisdom, but in exchange inflicts a curse: if Switters's feet ever touch the ground, he will be struck dead instantly. So Switters spends the rest of the novel in a wheelchair, although this in no way slows him down. He returns to Seattle, chases after his 16-yearold stepsister and numerous art students, then embarks on a mission to Syria to sell gas masks to Kurds; there, he beds a nun who even so remains a virgin.
A man's wife is elected president. A natural hell-raiser, he has to behave himself during his wife's presidential campaign, only to find the dynamic of their relationship changes after he moves into the White House and becomes First Man. He is prompted to return to rowdy form.
A sort of Ocean's 11 meets Jason and the Argonauts.
Revolves around a thrilling mix of state secrets, race, politics and loyalty with a passionate physical love story at its heart.
Fairytale and folk characters ranging from Snow White and Cinderella to the Big Bad Wolf and Little Boy Blue are kicked out of their world and now live in a secret pocket of New York City.
Father Gabriele Amorth, an Italian priest, performs tens of thousands of exorcisms for the Vatican.
Story spans from the Stone Age to contemporary England, and centers around a magical amulet that brings power and despair to those handling it.
Follows a solitary assassin who helps a college girl exact revenge for the murder of her parents and brother.
Story centers on a married couple who decide to adopt after their own son is killed. Until one day a boy, who may or may not be their own unexpectedly arrives on their doorstep.
A young, shallow Manhattanite named Reality Nirvana Tuttle is charged with guarding the door at a trendy club in 1980s New York, allowing in the flashily dressed but turning away more classically elegant types like Jackie Onassis.
Caroline Ellis reaches 16, a birthday that triggers the battle fated for centuries between the Dark and Light Fae, forcing her to confront who she is and discover whether her tumultuous relationship with Devilyn Reilly, who’s battling the power of the Dark within him, will destroy them both along with humanity.
Set against San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, the crisis claims the life of Alysia Abbot's father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist.
A man's Thanksgiving at his parents' house becomes a lot more dysfunctional when rival assassins crash the dinner, forcing him to take his family on a cross-country adventure in their station wagon.
A dysfunctional but loving family hires a therapist to fix their problems on the eve of an impending wedding.
A journalist goes on vacation with her parents to an Italian beach resort to get over a recent breakup and ends up embroiled in a mysterious disappearance.