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by Susan Gregg Gilmore
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In 1970s Ringgold, Georgia, a headstrong preacher's daughter plots her escape to Atlanta from the local Dairy Queen, only to find that tragedy and unexpected revelations lead her salvation back to the small town she yearns to leave.
by Will Eisner
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In 1930s Dropsie Avenue, a rabbi's lost faith begins four stories that capture the Bronx's spirit in a graphic novel.
by Ben Okri
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A spirit-child chooses to live in the mortal world, navigating poverty and wonder with an unyielding smile.
by Thomas Hardy
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In a Victorian village, a church musician's simple life changes when a charming schoolmistress arrives, threatening tradition and starting a complicated love.
by N.M. Silber
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by James Patterson
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Maximum Ride and her flock fly through a ruined, post-apocalyptic Earth, searching for truth and confronting their destiny in a final battle.
by Victoria Aveyard
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Return to the world of the Red Queen with this collection, featuring new tales of power, rebellion, and intrigue from familiar and new characters.
by Val McDermid
4.0(10,928)
Twenty-five years after finding a barmaid's body and being the sole suspects, four friends are haunted by a reopened cold case and a vengeful killer who believes they got away with murder.
by Anne Rivers Siddons
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A spirited Southern bride navigates a century of love, loss, and the unyielding traditions of her aristocratic in-laws' Maine summer colony, ultimately becoming its fierce, unconventional matriarch.
by Tillie Walden
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In a future where space crews restore old structures, a new recruit joins to find her lost love, a mysterious girl she met in boarding school.
by Tony Hillerman
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Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn must navigate the Zuñi people's sacred world, an ancient archaeological dig, and a modern drug operation to solve the disappearance of two boys and a pool of blood in the New Mexico desert.
by Charlotte Wood
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Ten young women, victims of sexual scandals with powerful men, are imprisoned in a brutal, isolated desert facility where they must band together to survive their captors and the wilderness as their hope for rescue dwindles.
by Emma Hooper
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An eighty-two-year-old woman walks across Canada to see the ocean, leaving her husband and a lifelong admirer to deal with her absence and their shared, complicated past, all while she travels with a talking coyote.
by Mary Stewart
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As Arthur's golden age ends, Mordred's shadow grows, destroying Camelot from within and leading to an inevitable, tragic end.
by Sarah Weeks
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A small-town boy whose best friends moved away and a new immigrant struggling to adapt find common ground and team up to outwit their class bully during one chaotic school week.
by Isaac Asimov
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As a dying Galactic Empire crumbles, a lone visionary uses the science of psychohistory to establish a remote outpost of knowledge, hoping to shorten humanity's inevitable dark age amidst rising warlords and the threat of annihilation.
by Carol Goodman
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Returning to the isolated, snow-bound boarding school where a trio of suicides shattered her youth, a Latin teacher confronts ominous messages and a resurfacing journal that threaten to expose the dark, watery truth of a twenty-year-old mystery as new deaths begin to mirror the past.
by Philip K. Dick
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A puzzle champion in 1959 slowly uncovers the horrifying truth that his entire idyllic reality is a meticulously constructed lie, and he is its unsuspecting linchpin in a future war.
by Multatuli
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A Dutch idealist in 19th-century Java confronts the brutal hypocrisy of colonial rule and the corrupt coffee trade, sacrificing his own career to expose the systemic oppression of the native people.
by Elizabeth Berg
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Facing terminal illness, two fiercely independent women, bound by decades of shared secrets and sundaes, confront the hardest test of their unconventional friendship.
by Monty Roberts
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A real-life horse whisperer, from rodeo corrals to royal stables, defies his violent father and old ways, showing a silent language that transforms wild mustangs in minutes and teaches powerful lessons in nonverbal communication for all relationships.
by Doris Lessing
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In the desolate Rhodesian veld, a white woman's descent into madness and her Black servant's silent resentment lead to a violent act that exposes colonial society's brutal realities.
by Eden Maguire
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After past tragedies, Darina, still mourning Phoenix, must investigate the year-old murder of singer-songwriter Summer Madison, using Summer's music to find a killer and achieve justice amidst her own lasting love.
by David Walliams
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A lonely girl's secret friendship with a kind, malodorous tramp hidden in her garden shed leads to unexpected revelations and a town's surprising transformation.