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by Yann Martel
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Born intersex and later in a shocking accident, Self is a fantastical, gender-bending autobiography that blurs the lines of identity and reality.
by George Eliot
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Explore the quiet dramas and moral complexities of 19th-century English clergy and their parishioners, showing the humor, heartbreak, and resilience in ordinary lives.
by Richard Rashke
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Based on the accounts of eighteen survivors, "Escape from Sobibor" tells the story of the uprising and mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp.
by Kirsten Boie
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A girl's unexpected film role as a princess turns into a real-life mystery in a charming kingdom, where the line between script and reality blurs.
by Robert Cormier
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Fresh from juvenile detention for parricide, eighteen-year-old Eric seeks a twisted form of 'tenderness' through murder, only to find a potential mirror—or victim—in the equally damaged and searching fifteen-year-old runaway, Lori.
by Cal Armistead
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An amnesiac teen renames himself after Thoreau and travels to Walden Pond, hoping the retreat will unlock his tragic memories and reveal his identity.
by Drew Eric Whitman
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Learn Madison Avenue's psychological secrets to create ads that make people buy, whether you run a big corporation or a small shop.
by Peter Singer
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Peter Singer's "Practical Ethics" applies utilitarian principles to controversial real-world dilemmas, from animal rights to euthanasia, making readers confront the logical (and often uncomfortable) conclusions of their moral beliefs.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This epic poem follows Hiawatha's life, exploring Native American legends, folklore, and myth. It shows the connection between indigenous cultures and the natural world, with over 400 original Remington illustrations.
by Andrew Fukuda
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A hidden human survives in a vampire-ruled world by hunting his own kind, all while battling forbidden love and the threat of exposure.
by Enid Blyton
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The Secret Seven are on the case when mysterious lights and disturbed jackdaws at Torkling Castle hint at a secret lurking within its ruined tower, far more intriguing than a simple ghost story.
by Theodore Dreiser
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In a society quick to judge, Jennie Gerhardt finds love and motherhood outside of marriage, her compassion clashing with the era's strict moral code.
by Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm explores the origins of human violence, arguing against both instinctual and behavioral explanations, to show how society and psychology can turn our potential for good into destructive acts.
by Corban Addison
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A desperate family's round-the-world sailing trip collides with a Somali pirate's quest for vengeance and an FBI negotiator's past, igniting a global crisis where survival hinges on confronting buried truths.
by Kate Brian
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Haunted by a fiery past and relentless adversaries, Reed fights to resurrect her beloved boarding school from literal and metaphorical ashes, all while a sinister legacy threatens to consume her and the remaining Billings girls.
by Vera Nazarian
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On the alien world of Atlantis, an awkward Earth-nerd with a powerful voice must navigate deadly games, treacherous alliances, and an impending cosmic war to save her loved ones and two planets, all before her wedding day.
by David Lodge
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A Catholic literature graduate student struggles with the gap between academic theory and his growing family in pre-Pill London.
by Arthur Schnitzler
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Trapped by her family's financial ruin, Fräulein Else confronts the shattering cost of virtue and society's predatory gaze in a desperate bid to save her father.
by Tess Oliver
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In a world of strict societal rules, a young woman's life hunting werewolves takes a dangerous turn when her latest scientific 'specimen' sparks an forbidden passion, making her choose between love and humanity as he changes into the monster she hunts.
by Ngugi wa Thiongo
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In the fantastical Free Republic of Aburiria, a tyrannical ruler's quest for ultimate power clashes with an unemployed man who unexpectedly wields the magic of the 'Wizard of the Crow,' igniting a battle for the very soul of a nation.
by Yasmine Galenorn
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A vampire jian-tu, Menolly D'Artigo, balances a promise ceremony with two world-ending threats, uniting her witch and werecat sisters against an ancient necromancer and the Lord of Ghosts to save Earthside and Otherworld from war.
by Alan Duff
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In the brutal, impoverished world of a Maori shantytown, Beth Heke must find the strength to transcend her husband's violence and the crushing despair of her community to forge a new path for her children.
by S.E. Hinton
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Jamie Sommers, an orphan and lifelong sinner, used to the world's dark corners, faces an unimaginable evil in Hawkes Harbor that threatens his sanity and cursed existence.
by Shauna Singh Baldwin
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In India's 1947 Partition era, two wives in a wealthy Sikh household, one barren and one young, navigate duty, desire, and destiny as their lives reflect the fracturing nation.