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by Delos W. Lovelace
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A huge ape, taken from his island home, develops a tragic affection for an actress in New York City, becoming both a spectacle and a victim of human exploitation.
by Christopher Pike
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A murdered teen returns as a ghost, haunting her friends and exploring their dreams to unmask her killer before a terrifying entity called The Shadow strikes again.
by Paul Auster
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A young poet's coming-of-age takes a dark turn when a twisted love triangle with a mysterious Frenchman and his seductive girlfriend explodes in a shocking act of violence that will haunt him for decades across continents.
by Kate O'Hearn
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A teenage Valkyrie, who defies tradition by befriending humans instead of reaping their souls, goes on a dangerous quest to the World of Man and the Land of the Frost Giants to find a legendary runaway, creating her own destiny with the help of her mortal friends.
by Christopher Paolini
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A farm boy and his dragon, once nobodies, must risk everything to confront an evil king, for the fate of an entire civilization hinges on their final, no-second-chance battle.
by Angela Elwell Hunt
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As a slave in Pharaoh's household, the golden-eyed Tuya grapples with an unknown past and the dawning of forbidden love and spiritual awakening in ancient Egypt.
by Monica Itoi Sone
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Monica Itoi Sone's memoir shows the life of a Japanese-American girl in 1930s Seattle, contrasting it with her unjust internment during World War II.
by Peter James
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When bizarre deaths plague an English town, a detective races to uncover a modern alchemist's dark secrets before more victims are sacrificed for immortality.
by Liam O'Flaherty
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During the brutal Irish Civil War, a sniper kills his latest victim, only to discover it is his own brother, revealing the devastating human cost of conflict.
by Yoshiko Uchida
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A young Japanese picture bride faces arranged marriage, cultural clashes, and World War II internment, showing remarkable resilience despite her adopted country's betrayal.
by Maurice Blanchot
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Thomas struggles with the elusive nature of being, searching for presence in absence and mystery in clarity, transforming the novel itself.
by Sarah Dalton
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Mina navigates the politics and ancient secrets of the Clans, confronting betrayals and a looming war that threatens her freedom and abilities.
by Arthur J. Roth
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Adrift in the 18th-century Arctic, a shipwrecked teen forges an unbreakable bond with an orphaned polar bear cub, battling the unforgiving ice and his own dwindling hope for survival.
by Unknown
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Camelot's chivalric dream ends as King Arthur, betrayed by his queen, his best knight, and his own son, faces the tragic end of his rule in a kingdom full of treachery and fading glory.
by Michael Blake
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Eleven years after finding peace among the Comanche, Dances With Wolves must again confront the brutal expansion of white settlers when his wife and infant daughter are abducted, forcing him into a desperate quest for rescue and revenge.
by Bertolt Brecht
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Through twenty-four chilling vignettes, Brecht exposes how Nazi terror crept into the daily lives of ordinary Germans, revealing a society suffocated by suspicion and fear.
by Tom Godwin
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Marooned on a hostile alien world with two suns and deadly monsters, untrained survivors must choose between despair or fueling their will to live with a burning desire for revenge against their cruel captors.
by Gillian Shields
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At an isolated Gothic boarding school, a lonely scholarship student's forbidden romance with a mysterious boy unravels a haunting historical secret that reveals her own supernatural destiny.
by Sheila O'Connor
3.8(786)
In 1930s rural Minnesota, three orphaned siblings must navigate their grandfather's sudden illness, fending for themselves and uncovering a hidden family past to stay together.
by David C. Korten
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Korten's book analyzes multinational corporations' growing global power and introduces the Living Democracy movement as a hopeful alternative to a system that favors profit over people and the planet.
by Alan Cowsill
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This updated A-Z guide covers over 220 heroes and villains, showing the Avengers' story through Marvel art and character details.
by Ari Berk
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Armed with a spectral clock and a legacy of death, a young boy must brave a crumbling, ghost-haunted town to find his missing mortician father and embrace his own destiny as an Undertaker of the dead.
by Sharon G. Flake
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From schoolyard bully to trafficking victim, Char's harrowing journey reveals the brutal underworld preying on vulnerable teens, testing her resilience and capacity for compassion in a fight for freedom.
by Marjetta Geerling
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Abby's 'One True Love Plan' to avoid her sisters' romantic mistakes falls apart when she likes a guy who might be the father of her sister's baby.