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by Kimberley Chambers
4.6(1,849)
A pregnant woman's imprisonment for attempted murder ignites a revenge war between her crime boss father and her children's sadistic gypsy father, revealing a secret that threatens to consume both families in a bloody Essex feud.
by Megan Shull
3.9(1,846)
After escaping her gilded cage of celebrity, teen superstar Grace Kincaid trades paparazzi and endorsements for a quiet life, a make-under, and a chance at real connection in a small town with a charming local boy.
by Kate O'Hearn
4.1(1,844)
A teenage Valkyrie, tasked with reaping souls, defies her destiny to embrace humanity and forge a new legend on a perilous quest in the mortal world.
by Kamila Shamsie
3.6(1,843)
In a Karachi simmering with political ghosts, a drifting daughter deciphers her vanished activist mother's secret letters, hoping they will lead her not just to a mystery's end, but to the heart of the woman who always left her behind.
by Tim Lebbon
3.7(1,843)
A grieving father unearths a decade-old military secret, only to discover his son's grave holds not human remains, but a monstrous, reanimated horror that unleashes a tide of relentless nastiness.
by Rucy Ban
3.5(1,842)
Kari's love for Neil is tested when her secret threatens to shatter their world, forcing her to choose between telling the truth and losing him.
by Jacqueline Wilson
4.2(1,837)
Sold by her desperate parents, a young acrobat named Diamond navigates the dazzling but dangerous world of Tanglefield's Travelling Circus, finding both peril and friendship under the watchful eye of Emerald Star.
by Lord Byron
3.8(1,837)
Tormented by a sin like Byron's own scandalous exile, Manfred grapples with ancient spirits and his incestuous past, seeking oblivion for a love that defies human and divine law.
by Nadine Gordimer
3.5(1,837)
In apartheid South Africa, Rosa Burger, daughter of revolutionary parents, struggles with their anti-apartheid legacy while trying to find her own way amid national unrest.
by Lisa Ann Sandell
3.8(1,834)
Haunted by her brother's death and stifled by her small town, a young artist finds solace in drawing maps and unexpectedly uncovers a shared artistic legacy and burgeoning love with the boy who survived the fatal car crash.
by Lian Tanner
4.0(1,834)
In a city where truth is a lie and every word has a hidden meaning, a skilled young thief must navigate a treacherous festival to rescue her friends and expose the deadly secrets of child-stealers.
by Doris Lessing
3.7(1,833)
A Cambridge professor's mind fractures, sending him from a mental asylum into a cosmic journey that blurs madness, myth, and reality.
by Joan Lowery Nixon
4.0(1,833)
Thirteen-year-old Frances disguises herself as a boy and journeys across the 1850s American West to reunite her siblings after their widowed mother places them on an orphan train.
by Rebecca Roanhorse
4.1(1,824)
When her father vanishes, a young Navajo girl with a new ability to see monsters must embrace her heritage and battle ancient evils across the American Southwest, helped by disguised Holy People and facing trials that test nature itself.
by Jean Merrill
4.1(1,822)
In 1960s Cleveland, a sixth-grader's quest to save on toothpaste unexpectedly becomes a million-dollar empire, showing that ingenuity and basic math can conquer the market.
by Karen Hesse
4.4(1,821)
In 1924 Vermont, the Ku Klux Klan shatters a quiet town, forcing a Black girl, a Jewish girl, and their neighbors to face hatred and find strength in unexpected friendships.
by Colin Higgins
4.1(1,819)
A young man obsessed with death finds joy in life through an unlikely romance with an eccentric, life-loving older woman.
by Derrick Jensen
4.3(1,818)
Derrick Jensen connects early 20th-century American lynchings to modern South American death squads, showing the 'make-believe' that underpins our civilization.
by Fletcher Knebel
4.2(1,818)
A Marine colonel uncovers a plot by a general to overthrow the U.S. government, leaving the President seven days to stop a military coup and save American democracy.
by Joan Bauer
3.7(1,817)
Twelve-year-old Tree, a towering six-foot-three but internally adrift after his parents' divorce and athletic failures, finds his true strength by helping his amputee Vietnam vet grandfather and a new girl navigate their own challenges.
by Lori Roy
3.6(1,816)
A young girl's forbidden midnight quest into a rival family's well unearths a generations-old curse and a chilling connection to her aunt's dark past in a suspenseful Southern Gothic tale of secrets, lavender fields, and impending doom.
by H.E. Bates
4.0(1,815)
A tax clerk discovers freedom and joy when he falls for a country family's unconventional, fun-loving charm.
by Cathleen Schine
3.2(1,813)
A happily divorced bookstore owner in a charming New England town finds her content life upended by an anonymous, passionate love letter that sparks a town-wide quest for its secret author.
by Paula Yoo
3.9(1,812)
A Korean-American overachiever struggles to reconcile her parents' Ivy League dreams and strict rules with her love for a trumpet player and her musical passions outside of classical violin.