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by Deborah Wiles
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For ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger, who's attended 247 funerals at her family's funeral home, navigating the quirks of her Southern relatives and a sudden best-friend fallout proves that even an expert in loss still has much to learn about life's most surprising departures.
by Robert B. Parker
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When a bitter divorce escalates into a father's violent abduction of his son, Spenser is hired to retrieve the boy, only to find himself on a dangerous mission in the Maine woods to protect the child and outwit ruthless adversaries.
by Rachel Hawthorne
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Desperate to become the wolf she needs to be for the boy she loves and the pack she yearns to join, a powerless girl risks everything, including the very Shifters she hopes to impress.
by Jeff Hawkins
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Jeff Hawkins presents a theory that the brain models the world using hundreds of thousands of individual, map-like structures, changing our understanding of intelligence and AI.
by Frank Portman
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Armed with his dead father's copy of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' high school outcast Tom Henderson unravels a rock-and-roll conspiracy that turns his suburban angst into a Da Vinci Code-esque quest.
by David Mamet
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A college professor's meeting with a student turns into a chilling inquiry, exposing power, censorship, and abuse through weaponized language.
by Oscar Wilde
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To help a lovelorn student win his beloved, a devoted nightingale embarks on a desperate quest for a red rose, ultimately making the ultimate sacrifice to create one from her own heart's blood.
by Enid Blyton
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Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and Timmy the dog face the spooky legends of Whispering Island, hoping to find a real mystery among its old, unsettling secrets.
by Greg Bear
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On a Mars chafing under Earth's corporate rule, a young woman's quiet defiance ignites a generations-long struggle for planetary independence.
by Lawrence Durrell
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In pre-WWII Alexandria, where intellect and history meet, a group of expats goes into obsessive love and betrayal, mistaking physical pursuit for understanding.
by David Baldacci
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A master con artist flees a vengeful casino king, forcing Oliver Stone and his Camel Club to face a ghost from Stone's past: a seemingly ordinary family man who is, in reality, a relentless assassin systematically eliminating everyone connected to Stone.
by Ngugi wa Thiongo
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In the crucible of Kenya's fight for independence, a disillusioned villager grapples with betrayal, sacrifice, and the agonizing cost of freedom.
by Aristotle
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Aristotle's guide to persuasive speech teaches how to master rhetoric for public discussion and how to guard against its manipulative uses.
by John Boyne
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A determined young shoe-shine boy uncovers his father's hidden trauma in a war hospital, forcing him to confront the silent battles fought far from the trenches.
by Sona Charaipotra
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At an elite Manhattan ballet academy, three ambitious dancers navigate a cutthroat world of rivalry, romance, and dangerous secrets as they compete for the prima role, each willing to sacrifice everything.
by G.K. Chesterton
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Chesterton shows how the idea of linear human progress is wrong, revealing humanity's lasting distinctiveness and how the Christian faith explains life's deepest questions.
by Patricia Falvey
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In early 20th-century Northern Ireland, Eileen O'Neill navigates sectarian strife and hidden family secrets, determined to reclaim her ancestral 'Yellow House' and mend her fractured family amidst political and religious turmoil.
by Jennifer Ackerman
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Jennifer Ackerman explores new research to show how bird intelligence, from tool-making to communication, is changing how we define genius.
by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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Banished for her inability to shapeshift, a half-moorfolk girl raised as a changeling must navigate prejudice and forgotten memories to right the ancient wrong done to her human family, even if it means confronting the magical world that cast her out.
by Stephanie Laurens
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A notorious rake seeking a country escape finds himself ensnared by a spirited beauty whose independence ignites his possessive instincts, leading to a battle of wills and seduction in the pursuit of love and pleasure.
by David Brin
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As a man-made black hole consumes Earth from within, humanity races against time, facing the horrifying idea that its own end might be the planet's only hope.
by Allen Eskens
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A detective, trying to save his career and marriage, finds an identity theft case that puts him in a deadly hunt for a mysterious man by a brutal assassin.
by Danielle Steel
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Identical twins Olivia and Victoria swap lives to escape scandal and pursue their dreams, finding love and destiny tangled with deception and sacrifice.
by Matthew Quick
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A star athlete's carefully built life falls apart when a mysterious cult classic novel ignites her rebellious spirit, leading her to forbidden friendships, passionate love, and the difficult consequences of becoming her true self.