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Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary is dying of boredom in her small French town, married to a kind but dull doctor who can’t ignite the passion she craves. She loses herself in novels, dreaming of grand love affairs and glittering society balls, until fantasy begins to bleed into reality through reckless affairs and ruinous spending. As her desperate hunt for beauty and meaning spirals beyond control, Emma discovers that some hungers can never be satisfied—and that the price of living entirely for desire might be everything she holds dear. What happens when a woman refuses to accept the life she’s been given and reaches for something that may not exist at all?
- Originally Published: 1857
- Publisher: VIVI Books, 2018
- Genre: Literary Realism
- Pages: 372
- BookType: Hardcopy/Hardcover
- ISBN: 9789386869289
- Access: Members
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Making Money Is Killing Your Business: How to Build a Business You’ll Love and Have a Life, Too
What if the very pursuit of profit is the trap keeping your business—and your life—from true freedom? Making Money is Killing Your Business delivers a jolt to the conventional wisdom of entrepreneurship, urging business owners to trade endless busyness for intentional legacy-building. With bold clarity and a liberating tone, it redefines success as time, purpose, and impact—rather than just the bottom line. Can you build a business that makes meaning, not just money? This book is a wake-up call for those tired of being owned by what they’ve built.
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Crankset Publishing, 2015
- Pages: 303
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0984334322
- Access: Members
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Man and His Symbols
What if the key to understanding ourselves lies buried in dreams, myths, and the symbols we scarcely notice? Man and His Symbols is an evocative journey into the deep architecture of the human psyche, where the unconscious speaks in images older than memory. Through rich illustrations and profound insights, the book unveils how symbols shape our fears, desires, and destinies—often without our awareness. Can we truly become whole without listening to what the soul whispers in symbols? This is not merely a study of the mind, but an invitation to explore the unseen terrain of meaning within us all.
- Originally Published: 1964
- Publisher : Penguin Random House, 1968
- Genre: Psychology
- Pages: 415
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0440351832
- Access: Members
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Man’s Search for Meaning
In the heart of unspeakable darkness, one man dared to ask not how to escape suffering—but how to endure it with dignity. Man’s Search for Meaning is both a harrowing memoir and a luminous meditation, tracing the inner life of a soul caught in the grip of history’s cruelest machinery. Amid despair, it whispers a radical truth: that even in the absence of freedom, we can choose our response, and that choice can shape a life. What if the key to survival is not power or luck, but purpose? This is a book that doesn’t offer comfort—it offers meaning.
- Originally Published: 1946
- Publisher: Rider, 2004
- Genre: Personal Narrative
- Pages: 160
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781844132393
- Access: Members
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Measure What Matters: OKRs – The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
What if the secret to achieving bold dreams lies not in working harder, but in choosing what to measure—and what to ignore? Measure What Matters unveils the power of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), a deceptively simple system that has propelled visionary teams toward clarity, alignment, and unstoppable momentum. With real-world stories of ambition wrestled into focus, the book invites readers into boardrooms where ideas live or die by the metrics that define them. In a world drowning in data but starved for direction, can the right goal-setting framework spark both performance and purpose? Clear-eyed and compelling, this is a blueprint for anyone determined not just to move fast, but to move true.
- Originally Published: 2017
- Publisher : Penguin Business, 2018
- Pages: 306
- Genre: Business
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0241348482
- Access: Prime Membership
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Meditations
Alone beneath the stars, an emperor writes—not to command legions, but to steady his own soul. Meditations is a quiet thunder, a journal of inner battles fought in the hush of thought, where pride and grief, power and impermanence wrestle for mastery. What does it mean to govern the world, yet struggle to govern the self? With luminous simplicity and unflinching honesty, this work invites the reader not into a story, but into a lifelong discipline—of seeing clearly, accepting fully, and acting justly. It is less a book to be read than a mirror held up to the trembling heart of anyone who seeks to live with meaning.
- Originally Published: 161-180 CE
- Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006
- Genre: Non-fiction, Philosophy
- Pages: 304
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0140449334
- Access: Members
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
What if your true potential had less to do with talent and more to do with how you think about growth itself? In Mindset, the invisible architecture of belief is laid bare, revealing how the simple choice between a fixed or growth mindset can shape success, resilience, and the will to rise after failure. With clarity and warmth, this book challenges the reader to confront their self-imposed limits and reimagine effort not as struggle, but as transformation. Can you change your mind—and in doing so, change your life? This is a journey into the heart of learning, achievement, and the quiet revolution of believing you can.
- Originally Published: 2006
- Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2007
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 9780345472328
- Access: Members
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Money Magnet
Money Magnet is a sharp, no-nonsense blueprint for turning ambition into income, and hustle into lasting wealth. It cuts through financial noise with street-smart wisdom and unapologetic clarity, teaching not only how money moves—but how to make it move for you. Beneath its bold tone lies a deeper challenge: is wealth a product of luck, or the outcome of mindset, discipline, and deliberate action? This is a guide for those tired of chasing money and ready to learn how to attract it. What if the real secret to success isn’t in what you earn—but in what you believe?
- Originally Published: 2013
- Publisher: Wiley, 2013
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 260
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1890679460
- Access: Members
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Mrs Dalloway
On a single day in postwar London, Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party—yet beneath the flutter of silk and social ritual lies a deep current of memory, regret, and quiet defiance. Mrs Dalloway is a luminous meditation on time and identity, where past and present shimmer and collide in the minds of those touched by love, loss, and the wounds of war. As Big Ben tolls the hours, what does it mean to truly live—when life is composed of fleeting moments and unspoken thoughts? Intimate and expansive, this is a novel that listens to the silence between words and finds entire worlds within.
- Originally Published: May 14, 1925
- Publisher: Vintage Classics Library, 2016
- Genre: Novel, Psychological Fiction
- Pages: 172
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1784871697
- Access: Members
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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Multipliers explores a paradox both unsettling and liberating: that the most powerful leaders are not those who hoard intelligence, but those who ignite it in others. With striking clarity, the book maps the quiet divide between leaders who drain potential and those who expand it—turning ordinary teams into reservoirs of brilliance. What kind of leader are you: a diminisher cloaked in control, or a multiplier who turns silence into ideas and pressure into growth? In this vivid and practical journey, Multipliers reveals that true influence lies not in knowing all the answers, but in asking the questions that awaken greatness in others. It is both a mirror and a manual for anyone daring enough to lead with generosity and boldness.
- Publisher: Harper Business
- Published: June 15, 2010
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0061964398
- Access: Members
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Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
In Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, the flags may have changed, but the power still flows from the same hands. With surgical precision and revolutionary fire, this book unveils how economic control, foreign aid, and multinational influence have replaced the old chains of empire with new, invisible shackles. If independence is declared but decisions are made abroad, can freedom truly be said to exist? It is a searing exposé of betrayal cloaked in diplomacy, where the promise of sovereignty is bartered for dependency. Through every page, the reader is challenged to ask: who profits when the colonizer never leaves—but merely changes form?
- Originally Published: 1965
- Publisher: Panaf, 2009
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 316
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0901787231
- Access: Members
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Never Split the Difference plunges into the high-stakes world where words can save lives—or cost everything. Drawing from the crucible of hostage negotiations, it reveals that the key to influence lies not in compromise, but in deep listening, calibrated empathy, and tactical truth-telling. What if winning a negotiation doesn’t mean meeting halfway, but mastering the emotional battlefield of human decision-making? With the precision of a thriller and the clarity of a field manual, this book turns the mundane act of conversation into a strategic dance of power, trust, and survival. In every deal, every disagreement, it dares you to ask: how much are you really willing to leave on the table?
- Originally Published: 2016
- Publisher: Harper Business, 2016
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0062407801
- Access: Members
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, artificial intelligence, and global entanglements, Nexus dares to ask: what does it mean to be human when every frontier—biological, technological, and ideological—collides? With lucid urgency, the book maps the shifting currents that bind data to power, consciousness to code, and ancient instincts to modern dilemmas. It is not a tale of answers, but of unsettling clarity, where the questions themselves become a mirror to our time: Can we master the tools we’ve built—or are we simply becoming extensions of them? At once sweeping and intimate, Nexus is a meditation on connection in the age of disconnection—a call to navigate the future with both reason and responsibility.
- Originally Published: 2024
- Publisher : Random House, 2024
- Pages: 492
- Genre: History
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0593736814
- Access: Prime Membership
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Night
In the frozen silence of the camps, where humanity is stripped to its barest bones, one boy clings to life, to faith, to his father’s hand. Night is a haunting testimony of survival in a world where reason has fled and cruelty reigns, a journey through darkness that asks: what remains of the self when even God is silent? With stark, lyrical power, it lays bare the fragile thread between love and despair, memory and forgetting. Can the soul endure when the world forgets how to care? This is not just a memoir—it is a cry, a flame, a witness.
- Originally Published: 1956
- Publisher: Hill & Wang, 2006
- Genre: Memoir, Autobiography, Non-fiction novel
- Pages: 120
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0374500016
- Access: Members
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No Longer Human
What does it mean to be human when you no longer feel the pulse of belonging? No Longer Human is a raw and haunting confession of alienation, tracing the slow unraveling of Yozo Oba—a man who masks despair with laughter, only to sink deeper into a world he cannot grasp. With prose as delicate as it is devastating, the novel explores the aching silence between performance and authenticity, exposing the fragility of identity in a world that demands masks. Is it madness to feel too much—or not enough? Dazai’s masterwork is a piercing elegy for those stranded on the margins of themselves.
- Originally Published: 1948
- Publisher: Book Hill, 1973
- Genre: Fiction, Novel
- Pages: 177
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0811204811
- Access: Members
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
What happens when a company dares to trust its people more than its policies? No Rules Rules takes readers behind the curtain of Netflix’s radical reinvention of workplace culture—where freedom is currency, candor is king, and control is traded for creativity. With bold strokes and sharp insight, it challenges the conventional wisdom that structure breeds success, revealing instead how chaos, when managed with clarity, can unlock astonishing innovation. Can an organization thrive without rules—or does liberation come with its own invisible leash? This is a story of rebellion, reinvention, and the quiet revolution rewriting how the world works.
- Originally Published: 2020
- Publisher: Virgin Books, 2020
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780753553664
- Access: Members
