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by Tan Twan Eng
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During the 1939 Japanese occupation of Penang, a young man's martial arts training pulls him into a web of love, betrayal, and devastating loyalty that challenges his identity.
by Katherine Arden
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After stealing a cursed book, a grieving girl and her classmates must outrun a sinister smiling specter and its scarecrow minions, heeding the chilling advice to 'avoid large places, keep to small' as night falls.
by Janet Evanovich
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A skirt-nibbling rabbit brings a sharp-tongued woman and a charming veterinarian together, unexpectedly blending their families and sparking romance over a chaotic Thanksgiving dinner.
by Robin Cook
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When a top surgeon's daughter contracts a deadly E. coli infection from contaminated meat, he uncovers a terrifying web of medical bureaucracy and industrial corruption that threatens to expose the the true cost of America's food supply.
by Susan Mallery
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A woman inherits frozen embryos instead of a cat, leading to an unconventional path to motherhood complicated by a charming, commitment-phobic billionaire.
by Katherine Pancol
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After her husband leaves her for a Kenyan crocodile farm and his mistress, a medieval historian secretly writes a bestselling romance novel for her sister, only to watch it become a literary sensation under another's name.
by Lois Duncan
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A year after four friends bury a deadly secret with a hit-and-run victim, an anonymous avenger stalks them, knowing exactly what they did last summer.
by Ned Vizzini
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To win the girl and climb the social ladder, an awkward high schooler swallows a supercomputer pill that promises to make him cool, but at what cost to his humanity and free will?
by Italo Calvino
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In a castle where speech is forbidden, silent travelers tell their stories using tarot cards, weaving a narrative of human experience.
by Julie Berry
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Trapped in servitude, a jeweler's apprentice discovers a magical heirloom and a mysterious stranger, setting her on a perilous quest to uncover the truth about her parents' disappearance, break a witch's curse, and restore justice to a kingdom.
by Paul Auster
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After his emotionally distant father's sudden death uncovers a sixty-year-old murder mystery, Paul Auster confronts inherited silences and the challenge of defining himself as a father and a writer.
by Jean Hegland
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Two sisters in a remote Northern California forest must abandon their modern lives and confront the brutal realities of survival as civilization subtly unravels around them.
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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In the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness of 1970, a naive California commune's idealistic quest for a back-to-the-land utopia clashes with reality, sparking rivalries and desperate struggles for survival among the homesteaders.
by Tim O'Brien
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In the hallucinatory haze of the Vietnam War, a young soldier abandons his post and embarks on an improbable, dreamlike trek from the steaming jungles of Indochina to the romantic streets of Paris, blurring the lines between desertion and a desperate quest for peace.
by James Joyce
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Enter a swirling stream of dream-logic and rich language, where Dublin's subconscious mind awakens to betrayals, humor, and echoes of human history.
by Carolyn Keene
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When a seemingly innocent perfume purchase leads Bess Marvin, Nancy Drew, George Fayne, and their new friend Jo into a web of deceit, they must unmask a secretive cult and a counterfeiting ring hidden within the tranquil Red Gate Farm.
by Evelyn Waugh
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Unjustly expelled from Oxford, the naive Paul Pennyfeather enters a morally corrupt world as a schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle, where eccentric staff and the captivating Margot Beste-Chetwynde lead him on an absurd journey through society's farcical underbelly.
by C.J. Box
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Game warden Joe Pickett investigates the suspicious death of a friend in the Tetons, uncovering corruption that makes him a target.
by Cecelia Ahern
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Fired from her job and left to care for her sister, a young woman finds an unexpected connection with her controversial neighbor during their shared unemployment, forcing them both to re-evaluate their lives.
by Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins argues that scientific understanding enhances, rather than diminishes, the beauty and wonder of the universe, transforming Keats's 'unweaving the rainbow' into a celebration of discovery.
by Jill Ker Conway
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by Lisa Schroeder
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Trapped by a deadly snowstorm, a grieving teen discovers a celestial connection to her lost mother, forcing her to confront the fractured family she's been avoiding.
by H.P. Lovecraft
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A college student's genealogical quest to a decaying, isolated New England fishing village unearths a horrifying family secret and the monstrous, aquatic truth behind Innsmouth's inbred inhabitants.
by Kirsten Miller
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Haunted by past-life visions of a tragic love, Haven Moore flees to New York City to confront a playboy who may be her soulmate or her murderer, all while navigating a secret society that controls her reincarnated destiny.