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by Maeve Binchy
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In 1950s Ireland, a bright 'shanty Irish' girl and a gentry boy, linked by a childhood secret, challenge rigid class lines and small-town gossip for a love as urgent as the tides.
by Dana Mele
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At an elite private school where popularity is power, a star soccer player's carefully constructed new life unravels into a deadly scavenger hunt when a classmate's murder implicates everyone, especially her.
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Eustace Conway, a modern frontiersman, left suburbia for the Appalachian wilderness, redefining American masculinity by living off the land, making fire with sticks, and encouraging others to abandon materialism.
by R.J. Anderson
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Confined to a mental institute for a murder without a body, a sixteen-year-old girl grapples with the impossible truth that her victim disintegrated into thin air, only to find a mysterious psychologist believes her story and holds the key to an extraordinary, hidden world.
by Daniel Quinn
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A wise gorilla seeks to save humanity by teaching a spirited twelve-year-old girl the forgotten truths of the world, challenging her to forge her own path and become an unexpected savior.
by Alice Kuipers
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Through a collection of refrigerator notes, a busy mother and her teenage daughter face the chaos of life until a crisis forces them to confront their love and an uncertain future.
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
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A college freshman, grieving her lost love, finds her recurring nightmares and new magical abilities connect her to a haunted girl and a boy in danger, forcing them to face dark forces.
by Virginia Bergin
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After a seemingly ordinary rain turns lethal, a lone survivor embarks on a desperate cross-country journey, navigating a world where every drop of water could mean death and her only hope is a father she may never find.
by Steve Berry
4.0(9,160)
A retired Justice Department agent races across Europe to recover explosive Treasury files that could expose the illegality of the 16th Amendment and dismantle the US income tax system, all while uncovering a conspiracy rooted in forgotten history and the secrets of the dollar bill.
by Morris Gleitzman
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In Nazi-occupied Poland, a young Jewish orphan named Felix plans a make-believe escape, thinking new parents and safety await, even as a train to a concentration camp carries him and his friend Zelda further into danger.
by E.D. Baker
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A witch and her groom-to-be brave trolls and disapproving parents to marry in this charming, funny fairy tale sequel.
by Yasunari Kawabata
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In the world of tea ceremonies, a young man's affair with his deceased father's mistress, and later her daughter, reveals a story of desire, regret, and the past's lasting hold.
by Naguib Mahfouz
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In 1940s Cairo, Midaq Alley is a small, crowded world where people pursue their dreams and make moral compromises as new ways threaten their old life.
by Paul Auster
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After a family tragedy, a 72-year-old insomniac creates an alternate America at war, finding the violence of his imagined world reflects his grief.
by Michelle Harrison
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Banished to her grandmother's manor, a 13-year-old girl haunted by invisible, malevolent fairies discovers a chilling mystery in the surrounding woods that threatens to pull her into their treacherous realm forever.
by Alice Hoffman
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In a Florida town where magic shimmers under the moonlight, a mother unravels a web of mystery, murder, and unexpected love to find her runaway son who inexplicably vanished with a baby.
by Gail Carson Levine
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In a whimsical twist on a classic, a cinder-covered boy named Cinderellis, armed with magical powders and a determined heart, must convince the skeptical Princess Marigold that he's her charming suitor, not a monster, to win her hand and escape his brothers' taunts.
by Jonathan Auxier
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A blind orphan thief finds magical eyes that take him to a hidden island, starting a quest with a horse-cat knight to save a kingdom and find his destiny.
by Amber Kizer
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On her sixteenth birthday, outcast Meridian discovers she's a half-angel Fenestra tasked with guiding souls to the afterlife, navigating forbidden romance with her protector, and battling dark forces who prey on the dying.
by Karen Kingsbury
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A movie star and a young woman navigate fame's pressures during a sensational trial, while another family uncovers a long-lost secret that changes their past and future.
by Rory Sutherland
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Rory Sutherland's 'Alchemy' shows how advertising ideas, behavioral science, and funny stories prove that the best solutions come from ignoring logic and trying irrational approaches.
by Scott Sigler
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A teenage girl wakes up in a coffin with no memory. She finds herself one of many, trapped in a decaying, bone-filled labyrinth with a horrifying truth waiting.
by Emily Lloyd-Jones
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In a village with reanimated corpses, a gravedigger and a mapmaker travel into mountains to confront a fae curse and find out about their pasts.
by Emma Clayton
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Behind a towering wall built to exclude plague-ridden animals, a kidnapped girl and her capuchin monkey pilot a Pod Fighter into the forbidden wild, unraveling the true nature of her captivity and the world beyond.