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by Michael Morpurgo
4.2(4,479)
Orphaned and sent to the Australian outback after WWII, Arthur Hobhouse experiences hardship and loss, finding comfort in the sea. This love guides his daughter on a journey to reunite their family.
by Alex Sanchez
4.0(4,477)
A religious high school senior's life changes when an openly gay Christian arrives, making him face hidden desires and reconcile his faith with his sexuality amid growing town prejudice.
by Louis L'Amour
4.2(4,467)
Cornered under the Mogollon Rim by forty vengeful gunslingers, Tell Sackett must hold his ground until his diverse, fiercely loyal family—from outlaws to bankers—can ride in to defend their brand against overwhelming odds.
by Jeff Shaara
4.3(4,465)
As Allies push for victory in Europe, a desperate German counteroffensive in the Ardennes traps American soldiers in the brutal Battle of the Bulge, leading to the discovery of the Holocaust's unspeakable horrors.
by Timber Hawkeye
4.2(4,465)
This book offers practical advice for a mindful life, a 'boot camp' for anyone seeking inner peace and a kinder world, regardless of their spiritual path.
by Ray Bradbury
3.8(4,462)
In 1950s Venice, California, a writer's imagination blurs with reality as accidents plague his friends, forcing him to solve a series of events tied to his own creative power.
by Jennifer Brown
4.0(4,462)
After a tornado destroys her world, a Midwestern teen finds hope and family while coping with loss and unfamiliar surroundings.
by Steven James
3.7(4,457)
An FBI criminologist known for tracking dangerous killers becomes the hunted when a murderer uses an ancient manuscript as a gruesome blueprint, forcing him to decipher its deadly clues before he becomes the final, shocking victim.
by Mary Renault
4.1(4,457)
During Athens' golden age, two wrestling friends navigate their city's athletic contests, the Olympic games, and the Peloponnesian War, their bond growing under Socrates's questioning gaze.
by Maria Edgeworth
3.2(4,456)
Maria Edgeworth's satire follows four generations of Anglo-Irish landlords as their extravagant ways lead to decline, seen through the eyes of their loyal steward, and predicts the rise of a new class during Ireland's political unrest.
by Pyotr Kropotkin
4.1(4,455)
Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread' examines historical injustices and outlines an anarchist society where collective needs are met through revolutionary redistribution and cooperative effort.
by Sigmund Freud
3.9(4,450)
Freud, using personal and humorous stories, explains that our 'accidental' slips of tongue, memory lapses, and daily errors are actually deliberate actions from our unconscious mind.
by Matt Killeen
3.9(4,444)
An orphaned Jewish girl, disguised as an Aryan, infiltrates an elite Nazi boarding school to steal bomb blueprints, navigating dangerous friendships and secrets.
by Rex Stout
4.2(4,441)
When society widow Rachel Bruner enlists Nero Wolfe to outwit the FBI, the reclusive detective and his assistant Archie Goodwin find themselves in a high-stakes game against federal agents skilled in surveillance, shadow operations, and intimidation.
by Sylvia Day
4.6(4,437)
Eva Tramell and Gideon Cross are two damaged people who find an all-consuming love that could either heal or destroy them amid wealth, power, and dangerous secrets.
by Fay Weldon
3.8(4,425)
A wronged wife becomes a cunning she-devil, dismantling her husband's life and identity with satisfying revenge after he leaves her for a glamorous novelist.
by Farley Mowat
4.1(4,422)
A young boy's Saskatchewan home is hilariously upended and forever changed by the arrival of Wol, a skunk-gifting, minister-terrorizing owl, and Weeps, his flight-challenged, dog-loving companion.
by Steve Kluger
4.4(4,421)
In 1940s Brooklyn, a fatherless, baseball-obsessed boy's relentless pursuit of his New York Giants hero sparks an unlikely, heartwarming friendship that alters both their lives.
by Shaun David Hutchinson
4.2(4,417)
Ozzie's boyfriend vanishes from existence, and no one remembers him but Ozzie. As the universe shrinks, Ozzie races to find him, even as a new connection sparks an unexpected, forbidden love.
by Arthur Hailey
3.9(4,415)
A woman at the top of a pharmaceutical company finds a frightening conspiracy when a new drug's promise of healing conflicts with corporate greed, forcing her to choose between her job and exposing a deadly secret.
by Beverly Lewis
4.3(4,415)
Torn between her devout fiancé and a charismatic outsider shunned by the Amish, Rose Kauffman must navigate forbidden love and community judgment, while her sister, Hen, fights to reconcile her modern marriage with her traditional roots before a judge decides her daughter's fate.
by Ray Bradbury
4.1(4,412)
In a future where prehistoric safaris are a luxury, one misplaced step in the past unravels time and civilization.
by Robert Louis Stevenson
3.7(4,412)
A Hawaiian man's life becomes a thrilling gamble when he buys a wish-granting imp in a bottle, only to discover selling it for less each time traps him in a desperate quest to avoid eternal damnation while securing his true love.
by Heather Killough-Walden
4.0(4,411)
A healer who dreams of two dangerous, destined werewolf mates—one a killer and the other a magic-averse man haunted by a warlock's past—finds her carefully constructed life utterly upended when fate throws them together.