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by Tatyana Tolstaya
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In a post-apocalyptic Russia where mutated humans scavenge for mice and knowledge is a controlled, dangerous commodity, one man's transcription job unveils a world far more complex and perilous than his seemingly mundane existence suggests.
by Timothy Zahn
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After Alderaan's destruction, Luke, Leia, and Han navigate Rebel politics, Mara Jade hunts Imperial traitors, and a stormtrooper's mutiny shapes the galaxy's fate.
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Torn between her desire for an 'Aussie-blonde' life and the traditions of her Muslim family, teenager Jamie navigates a double life, trying to fit in while secretly wanting to embrace her true self and her forbidden darabuka.
by Harry Mulisch
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A celebrated author's quest to understand evil leads him to a shocking secret from Hitler's inner circle, forcing him to confront the moral weight of untold history.
by Heinrich von Kleist
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A wronged horse-dealer, failed by a corrupt 16th-century legal system, wages a bloody war for justice, blurring the lines between vigilante hero and dangerous enemy of the state.
by William Golding
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The last Neanderthals live in a changing world of strange sounds and violent newcomers, unknowingly facing the start of a new, terrifying age that will end their existence.
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
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Left behind by her owner, a feisty doll with a hickory nut head and apple-wood twig body must brave the New Hampshire winter alone, relying on her wit and the kindness of woodland creatures to survive.
by Peter D. Schiff
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This book uses illustrations and parables to explain how consumer credit and inflation create economic problems, showing that real prosperity comes from saving, producing, and investing, not from government actions.
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Four skeptical siblings are pulled into a world of strange events and ghost stories after their new stepsister, a self-proclaimed witch, moves into their old home, forcing them to wonder if the magic is hers, or if an old headless ghost has truly woken up.
by R.M. Ballantyne
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Three boys shipwrecked on a tropical island discover that paradise holds deadly secrets, from cannibal feasts to pirate raids, testing their ingenuity and courage against the South Pacific's wild beauty.
by Charles Darwin
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Darwin places humanity, with all its racial diversity and controversial origins, firmly within the animal kingdom, changing our understanding of what it means to be human.
by Natalie Babbitt
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A young messenger travels the kingdom to define 'delicious,' uncovering a civil war and the true meaning of unity.
by Oriana Fallaci
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After her lover's execution, a woman fights to immortalize him and expose a political conspiracy, showing his fight for freedom against a tyrannical government.
by John Saul
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Grieving her mother's death, a teenage girl moves to a remote Cape Cod village only to discover a terrifying supernatural legacy that will forever alter False Harbor.
by Chris Kuzneski
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When his girlfriend is abducted in a series of planned kidnappings, Jonathon Payne races to New Orleans, uncovering a violent historical secret rooted in a Southern plantation that fuels a quest for revenge.
by V. S. Naipaul
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Willie Chandran flees the empty religious life of his Indian home for the promises of London and the colonial world of Africa, only to discover that being true to oneself is an elusive, often broken, promise.
by Hesiod
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Before the Olympians, early gods fought a family war, creating the world and its divine rulers in Hesiod's ancient poem.
by Alexander Gordon Smith
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Haunted by his own monstrous transformation, Alex Sawyer must confront the tyrannical Alfred Furnace in a world where humanity is enslaved and the line between executioner and executed blurs with every desperate, world-ending choice.
by William Wycherley
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A notorious rake pretends to be impotent to access London's virtuous wives, while a country innocent navigates urban courtship.
by Lee Smith
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A college student records her family's oral history in the Appalachian mountains, uncovering generations of dark secrets, forbidden loves, and strong spirits.
by Carolyn Keene
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On Crocodile Island, Nancy Drew uncovers a human trafficking ring hidden behind the facade of a wildlife sanctuary, proving the island's most dangerous predators are not always animals.
by Carolyn Keene
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Nancy Drew and her friends investigate a historic mansion's haunting and a decades-old shipwreck to find lost wedding treasures and solve the mystery of Pine Hill.
by Henry James
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A man obsessed with a singular, catastrophic event realizes the true 'beast' is the emptiness of a life unlived and love ignored.
by Sharon M. Draper
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Jericho's quest for belonging within an elite high school club becomes a difficult test of integrity as he confronts the escalating cruelty of initiation rites and the high cost of conformity.