Books like Death in the Afternoon (Hear No Evil , No 1) by Leslie Davis Guccione

Ernest Hemingway’s classic follows an old Cuban fisherman and his young companion as they battle a massive marlin, exploring themes of endurance, solitude, and the human struggle against nature.

Harper Lee’s 1960 classic follows young Scout Finch in Depression‑era Alabama as her father, lawyer Atticus Finch, defends a black man accused of rape, confronting racism, prejudice, and the moral growth of a child.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

The Grapes of Wrath follows a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers who leave their land during the Great Depression, journey to California, and confront the harsh realities of labor camps, low wages, and the struggle for dignity on the open range.

A nonfiction novel chronicling the adventures of a group of friends on their cross-country journey of discovery, featuring characters like Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as real-life friends Neal Casady.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Ernest Hemingway’s Louisiana‑born narrator takes readers through the 1920s Lost Generation—expatriates on Paris’s Left Bank, bullfights in Spain, and the era’s moral and spiritual unraveling.

Thirteen-year-old Meg grapples with envy, sibling rivalry, and the looming threat of her older sister Molly’s leukemia as one summer turns tragic.

Ten teens at a mysterious island mansion are gruesomely murdered one by one.

A young adult mystery novel about a teen struggling with drug addiction and uncovering the truth about her best friend's death.

A collection of classic horror and supernatural stories from the 19th century, featuring tales by notable authors like Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ambrose Bierce.

Edgar Allan Poe's anthology of short stories and poems, featuring masterpieces like 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.

In the quiet town of Gill Creek, teen Maggie Larsen’s life is jolted when a serial killer targets young girls, forcing her, new friends Pauline and Liam, to confront shocking danger.

A middle school student moves to a haunted apartment in Ravens Pass, but the town's mysterious past may not be the only thing lurking around.

“If what Christians say about Good Friday is true,” writes Richard John Neuhaus toward the beginning of his new book, “then it is, quite simply, the truth about everything.” Numerous writers and composers have been captivated by the suggestiveness of the Seven Last Words; Haydn, Beethoven, and Dvo?rák composed major works around them, and such writers as James Joyce, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, and Samuel Beckett return to them again and again. But Richard John Neuhaus's sustained exploration of these utterances is something altogether different. Through them he plumbs the depths of human experience and sets forth the central narrative of Western civilization—the suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ—in a way that engages the attention of believers, unbelievers, and those who are not sure what they believe.Was it necessary for Christ to die? Is it necessary that we suffer and die? If so, why? What is the connection between the undeniable fact of evil in the world and some ultimate justice? Does justice require punishment and, if so, how can it be just that the one person who was not guilty should suffer such a cruel death? In a culture devoted to pleasure and the avoidance of suffering is it possible that bad things are somehow redemptive? Neuhaus invites the reader into a spiritual and intellectual exploration of the dark side of human experience with the promise of light and life on the far side of darkness.

A former Black Ops commando and a paralyzed journalist must confront a shared past when a new threat endangers her life, forcing them to face truths and emotions they both try to leave behind.

Two boys and a girl investigate a crime in New Orleans.

A young detective from the palace must navigate London's underworld and royal intrigue to solve a murder mystery involving a Chinese sailor in Buckingham Palace.