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by William Gibson
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In a future where past and present collide, a small-town gamer stumbles into a murder in a virtual London, unknowingly intertwining her fate with a publicist seventy years in the future, as both their realities unravel with dangerous consequences.
by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft, the audacious mother of modern feminism, ignited the spark of female independence in a world alive with the rights of man. She demanded equal education and professional identity over docile decorum.
by Maggie Nelson
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Maggie Nelson explores love, loss, and seeing through the color blue, turning it into a way to think about desire, suffering, and truth.
by John Irving
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An Indian film star, an American missionary, and a group of eccentrics, including separated twins and a dwarf chauffeur, head for a showdown with a serial killer in a story of fate and dark comedy.
by William Kent Krueger
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Former sheriff Cork O'Connor battles a Minnesota blizzard and his own past to solve murders and disappearances, uncovering a conspiracy at the heart of his snowy hometown.
by Jack Finney
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An advertising artist in a covert government operation travels to 1882 New York City to investigate a mysterious death, only to fall in love and face the impossible choice between his present and a meticulously recreated past.
by William Gibson
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A journalist, an information specialist, a high-end junkie, and a military navigation troubleshooter find their lives linked in a conspiracy where information is manipulated, and the line between real and digital blurs.
by Seneca
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Seneca's Stoic wisdom urges us to live in the present, explaining that life is not short, but often wasted through distraction.
by Friedrich A. Hayek
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Hayek's 1944 book warns that government economic control, even with good intentions, leads to totalitarianism, like Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
by Joan Aiken
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Orphaned cousins Bonnie and Sylvia must outwit their wicked governess, Miss Slighcarp, and her accomplice to reclaim their ancestral home, Willoughby Chase, while fending off literal wolves and the harsh realities of a Victorian-era orphanage.
by Robert A. Caro
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Lyndon B. Johnson's rise in the United States Senate, where his charm and legislative skill broke gridlock to pass Civil Rights legislation, changed American politics forever.
by Jerry Spinelli
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Donald Zinkoff, a boy who doesn't notice his own quirks, shows that genuine individuality and a joyful spirit can make an ordinary 'loser' into an unexpected hero.
by Eoin Colfer
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Framed for treason and left to rot in an island prison, a young inventor in the 1890s must literally build his dreams of flight into a desperate escape to clear his name and save his kingdom.
by R.L. Stine
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A shy girl's quest for a Halloween fright turns real when her monstrous mask fuses to her face, changing her into the nightmare she wanted to be.
by Elizabeth Lim
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In a kingdom where a needle is mightier than a sword, a young tailor disguised as a boy must craft three impossible gowns from the sun, moon, and stars while navigating courtly intrigue and a forbidden romance with a watchful magician.
by Maggie Stiefvater
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A volatile dreamer, a skilled thief, and a haunted hunter are drawn into a high-stakes game where dreams become perilous realities and existence itself is at risk.
by Jason Matthews
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Russian operative Dominika Egorova, a CIA mole, navigates a deadly world of love, espionage, Kremlin power, and assassination attempts as a mole hunt closes in and her forbidden passion for her handler threatens to unravel everything.
by Steve Berry
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Cotton Malone uncovers Thomas Jefferson's secrets to stop a shadowy pirate society from using a hidden constitutional clause to fuel presidential assassinations.
by Erica Jong
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In 1970s Europe, a psychoanalyst's wife leaves her husband for a quest of sexual freedom and self-discovery, only to learn that freedom and fulfillment are not always the same.
by Jay Kristoff
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As darkness threatens the Republic, assassin Mia Corvere journeys with allies and enemies to uncover the truth of her existence and confront the forces that seek to extinguish all light.
by Agatha Christie
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When a prank involving eight alarm clocks ends in the discovery of a dead body and a missing timepiece, a seemingly innocent game at Chimneys transforms into a perilous quest to unravel a fatal mystery.
by Joseph Conrad
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A Russian spy in London plans a disastrous anarchist bombing, exposing the dark ironies and widespread fear hidden beneath Edwardian society.
by Judith Guest
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Haunted by his brother's accidental death, a guilt-ridden teenager's struggle with depression forces his seemingly perfect family to confront their unspoken grief and fractured relationships.
by John Brooks
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Explore the dramatic stories of corporate America, from Ford's Edsel failure to Xerox's rapid growth, revealing lessons in ambition, innovation, and human error that resonate through business history.