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by Charlie Higson
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In a London full of flesh-eating adults, teens at the Natural History Museum search for a cure, but find the real enemy is more dangerous than the 'sickos' they fight.
by Hitomi Kanehara
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Nineteen-year-old Lui enters Tokyo's underground, changing her body with a forked tongue and dragon tattoo while navigating a dangerous love triangle that blurs the lines between pain and pleasure.
by William H. McNeill
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McNeill shows how disease, from smallpox to plague, has shaped human civilization and history.
by K.A. Applegate
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Five ordinary teens are thrust into an intergalactic war, secretly morphing into animals to fight parasitic alien slugs bent on enslaving humanity from within.
by Thomas Merton
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Merton explores the paradox of spiritual existence, showing how true solitude leads to connection, and love must be shared to last.
by H.P. Lovecraft
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A crumbling Rhode Island mansion, avoided for centuries, slowly reveals its horrifying secret: an ancient, protoplasmic evil that consumes all who dare to uncover its truth.
by Beth Revis
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Haunted by delusions of time travel and the suicide of the girl he loves, a young man journeys through his own mind to save her, even if it means losing himself to the madness he fights.
by Camilla Gibb
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In contemporary Hanoi, a Vietnamese American art curator seeks her dissident father's past, a pho seller guards secrets of artistic rebellion, and a tour guide navigates their country's present. They come together in a story of loss, legacy, and the unexpected bonds that heal a nation's lingering scars.
by William Godwin
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A young secretary unearths his aristocratic employer's dark secret, only to become the victim of a relentless and tyrannical persecution that exposes the corrupt hierarchies of 18th-century England.
by Ismail Kadare
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Haunted by an ancient blood feud, a young Albanian man's thirty-day reprieve after avenging his brother's death becomes a poignant dance with destiny as a curious honeymooning couple from the city inadvertently stumble into the fatal mechanism of his impending demise.
by Patrick Carman
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Young Leo, the maintenance man's son, must decipher a series of eccentric puzzles and navigate the secret floors of the wondrous Whippet Hotel to save its future and his own.
by Stuart Gibbs
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Accused of koala-napping after a prank goes awry, Teddy Fitzroy must clear his name and find the real culprit before he's locked up for a crime he didn't commit at the world's most unusual zoo.
by Jodi Picoult
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A baker grappling with her own grief confronts the unimaginable when an elderly friend, a seemingly kind man, confesses his Nazi past and asks her to help him die, forcing her to choose between justice and mercy.
by Elliot Perlman
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A recently paroled street sweeper in Manhattan forms a bond with an Auschwitz survivor, while a historian uncovers a past connecting their lives and the echoes of history.
by F.H. Batacan
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In the dark underbelly of Manila, a Jesuit priest with a past and a sharp mind for forensics hunts a serial killer preying on street children, exposing the city's corrupt institutions and the church's own shadowed secrets.
by Dalai Lama XIV
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The Dalai Lama presents a universal ethical framework for the new millennium, suggesting a secular path to personal happiness and global survival based on our innate human goodness and compassion.
by K.J. Parker
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Exiled for a minor offense, a brilliant engineer meticulously plans a bloody vengeance against the rigid guild that condemned him, using others as his instruments.
by Mary Pope Osborne
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On a quest to save Merlin, Jack and Annie get stuck on a deserted island before joining a scientific expedition hunting for a sea monster in the deep ocean.
by Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem's essay collection, from an undercover Playboy Bunny expose to the satirical 'If Men Could Menstruate,' critiques patriarchy with wit, warmth, and a belief in women's voices.
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
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Separated by the cruel whims of the orphan train, a determined Irish immigrant grapples with fading memories and persistent hope as she spends seventeen years tirelessly searching for the siblings ripped from her grasp.
by Nagaru Tanigawa
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A cynical high schooler's mundane life changes when the eccentric, universe-altering girl he sits behind pulls him into her quest for the supernatural, forcing him and his club members to secretly protect reality from her unwitting wishes.
by Ellery Adams
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Returning to her Georgia hometown after a cheating husband, pie baker Ella Mae discovers her confections possess magical properties, leading to a charming new shop, a rekindled romance, and a murder mystery where her enchanted rolling pin is the prime suspect.
by Chase Novak
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A desperate couple's forbidden fertility treatment unleashes monstrous urges, turning their idyllic life into a nightly prison for their children, who must decipher the terrifying sounds beyond their locked doors.
by Danielle Steel
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After a devastating betrayal in San Francisco, Gillian flees to New York, building a new life and finding love, only to have her past resurface, forcing her to choose between two worlds and the true meaning of 'going home'.