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by Heidi R. Kling
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After a personal tragedy and a national disaster, a grieving teen finds unexpected love with an Indonesian orphan. Their dangerous journey forces them to face hard truths about their pasts.
by Olive Schreiner
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In 19th-century South Africa, a young woman dreams of freedom from strict social and religious rules on a desolate farm.
by Lawrence Block
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Matthew Scudder investigates the murder of an upscale couple and the subsequent killer-suicide, suspecting a clever mastermind is still at large and just beginning his deadly performance.
by A.J. Kazinski
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A cynical detective, tasked with protecting Denmark's 'good people' from a global assassin targeting the righteous, must overcome his own jaded view of humanity and team up with a grieving astrophysicist to stop the final two murders of the legendary '36 Just Men' before the world plunges into chaos.
by Karen Rose
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A child's harrowing escape from an abusive stepfather ignites a dangerous quest for vengeance, forcing a guarded doctor and a protective coach to confront their own dark pasts while shielding him from a relentless killer.
by Mark Walden
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Otto and Raven must infiltrate the Glasshouse, a high-tech assassin prison, to rescue their friends from Anastasia Furan, all while Otto evades American intelligence and confronts the consequences of his villainous life.
by Louise Penny
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In the quiet village of Three Pines, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache uncovers the darkness beneath its charming surface when a beloved resident is murdered on Thanksgiving Sunday.
by K.L. Going
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A grieving girl who scoffs at fairy tales finds herself drawn into a spectral apple orchard where a mysterious, unseen tree offers a magical, perilous path to understanding loss and the enduring power of life.
by Charles Boardman Hawes
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Fleeing for his life, young Philip Marsham escapes 17th-century London only to be swept into a perilous new existence as an unwilling pirate aboard the 'Rose of Devon,' battling treacherous seas and even more treacherous men.
by Vladimir Nabokov
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A lovelorn Russian émigré, desperate to impress a woman and escape a life of perceived insignificance, embarks on a quixotic and ultimately tragic quest to illegally re-enter the Soviet Union.
by John Fowles
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A novelist with amnesia struggles against his seductive muse, who may be his doctor, in a playful look at art, identity, and storytelling.
by Michelle Paver
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Marked by a soul-eating demon and cast out by his people, a young boy confronts ancient magic and broken trust in a fight for survival and belonging.
by Jen Turano
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A spirited nanny and a stoic guardian are forced together to care for three mischievous orphans, only to find that their unexpected bond helps them solve a mystery and discover love in Gilded Age society.
by Helen Humphreys
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Amidst the desolation of wartime Britain, a young Londoner tending a forgotten country estate unearths a garden of lost love that blossoms into her own.
by Ha Jin
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As Tiananmen Square erupts, a fiancé grapples with the unsettling possibility that his stroke-afflicted mentor's delirious accusations are dangerous truths, exposing the perilous tightrope walked by those who speak or hear the truth in a volatile China.
by Tracy Barrett
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A brilliant and ambitious Byzantine princess, raised for the throne, fights to reclaim her destiny when her brother's birth and her grandmother's scheming take away her inheritance.
by Henry Van Dyke
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A forgotten fourth wise man searches his whole life for the Messiah. He repeatedly sacrifices his treasures and delays his journey to help those in need, finding true divinity in selfless service.
by Susan Sontag
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In 18th-century Naples, a passionate and unconventional love triangle emerges between a British ambassador, his wife, and Lord Nelson, set against a backdrop of volcanic activity, art, and revolution.
by Chris Ryan
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Orphaned by a mysterious mass murder, teenager Zak Darke is recruited by a shadowy government agency, becoming Agent 21 and stepping into a perilous world where the fate of the twenty agents before him remains a chilling secret.
by Tim Wynne-Jones
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A chance encounter in a crime scene hotel room forces a resourceful street punk and a guarded runaway to forge an unlikely alliance against dangerous criminals and their own haunted pasts.
by Mary Hooper
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Falsely accused and hanged in 17th-century England, a young maidservant awakens on a dissection table, forcing a shy medical student to confront the miraculous truth of her survival and the injustice of her fate.
by Loren Eiseley
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Loren Eiseley, a writer with a scientist's mind and a poet's heart, turns his encounters with nature into deep thoughts about humanity's ancient past and uncertain present.
by Sharyn McCrumb
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In 1890s West Virginia, a young Black attorney's career is shaped by an unusual murder trial. The prosecution's main witness is the victim's ghost.
by James Hadley Chase
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An innocent heiress's kidnapping spirals into a nightmarish descent into depravity when she falls into the clutches of a sadistic mother and son, forcing a detective to race against time to save what's left of her.