Books that are about real people dealing with real situations but a bit quirky, a bit funny, and mostly with a happy ending.

In positive psychology, a flow is a cognitive state (also known as being "in the zone" (sports) or "in the pocket" (music)) in which a person is fully immersed in an activity. Achieving this state can help people feel greater enjoyment, creative energy, and energized focus.

Films within the noir genre are quite diverse, but have a few things in common: a dark and brooding atmosphere, a cynical protagonist with a complicated past, and plotlines that are fatalistic. Noir fiction has developed alongside these films since the 1930s and 1940s and has the same characteristics. Although classic noir novels by such authors as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett are detective stories, others are written in the form of psychological thrillers, and horror, western and science-fiction novels.

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2022

Read about all your favourite superheroes - from Spider-man to Black Panther to Wonder Woman!

Favourite fiction from the 1910s through the 1940s.

Fantasy fiction with strong female characters. For ages 9 and up.