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by Margaret Peterson Haddix
4.2(6,807)
When mysterious letters reveal their adoption is a cover for a millennia-old time-traveling conspiracy, two teenagers find themselves at the heart of a cosmic battle for their very existence.
by John Steinbeck
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In a fertile California valley, a collection of eccentric families chase their American dreams, their lives intertwined with the land's rhythms and the subtle, often humorous, ironies of fate.
by Kat Richardson
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A newly-minted Greywalker PI must solve the murder of a researcher, battling both a vengeful poltergeist and a killer hiding in plain sight.
by Richard Matheson
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A modern playwright, haunted by a vintage photograph, wills himself into the past to find the Victorian actress he is destined to love, defying time for a romance that transcends centuries.
by Bertolt Brecht
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In a world where goodness means death, a kind woman in Communist China creates a ruthless male alter ego to survive the people she tries to help.
by Luo Guanzhong
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After the Han dynasty collapsed, 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms' tells the story of nearly a century of civil war, showing how historical figures and events shaped the power struggles, strategies, and tragic fates of warlords battling to unite China.
by Margaret Atwood
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A journalist's Caribbean trip turns into a brutal test of power, sex, and survival amidst political trouble and personal collapse.
by Mario Vargas Llosa
4.3(6,783)
Amidst the suffocating corruption and political decay of 1950s Peru, Santiago Zavala grapples with his father's complicity in a regime that shattered their nation, all while searching for the precise moment everything went irrevocably wrong.
by Simone Elkeles
4.0(6,783)
Sixteen-year-old Amy's life implodes when her mom remarries, her dog gets the neighbor's poodle pregnant, and a charmingly annoying new boy moves in, all while her actual boyfriend is serving in the Israeli army.
by Andrew Sean Greer
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Born an old man who ages backward, Max Tivoli repeatedly pursues the love of his life through the decades of turn-of-the-century San Francisco, each time a stranger to her as his body grows younger.
by David Morrell
4.0(6,775)
A Vietnam veteran's quiet journey through rural Kentucky explodes into a brutal war for survival when a small-town sheriff pushes him too far, unleashing the soldier within.
by Marie de France
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Knights fall for fairy queens, lovers become werewolves: Marie de France's collection of Breton tales explores desire and fate in the medieval imagination.
by Nikki Grimes
4.0(6,769)
Eighteen Bronx high school students, initially hiding behind indifference and anger, find that poetry helps them share their fears, loves, and tragedies, building unexpected empathy.
by Danielle Steel
3.8(6,760)
A powerful businesswoman tries to fix decades of family estrangement during a luxurious Mediterranean yacht trip, only to find her children are making the same mistakes they criticized her for.
by Rick Yancey
4.2(6,760)
In the Canadian wilderness, a skeptical doctor faces the terrifying reality of the mythical Wendigo, a creature of endless hunger, making him question life, death, and what makes a monster.
by Jim Benton
4.0(6,758)
Jamie Kelly's diary chronicles the hilarious and mortifying chaos unleashed by her new haunted jeans, threatening her social standing and her quest to catch the eye of the eighth cutest boy, Hudson Rivers.
by James Scott
3.3(6,758)
In the brutal winter of 1897, a hardened midwife and her traumatized young son seek vengeance across the snow-covered New York wilderness, haunted by their slaughtered family.
by Walter Tevis
4.0(6,754)
An alien arrives on Earth to save his dying world, but human vices and loneliness trap him, turning his hope into despair.
by Ben Hatke
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When Jack trades his mom's car for magic seeds, his boring summer of babysitting his autistic sister turns into a perilous adventure through a backyard jungle with biting pumpkins, plant creatures, and a moonlit dragon.
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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In 1794, a bright but rash young poet named Fritz declares his love and intent to marry twelve-year-old Sophie, shocking his family and society by defying all expectations of romance and reason.
by Herman Melville
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A Spanish slave ship, seemingly in trouble, hides a dark secret, forcing an American captain to confront misleading appearances of power, race, and madness at sea.
by Anne Mercier
4.0(6,743)
A schoolgirl's lifelong crush on a rockstar turns into an intense weekend affair, forcing her to decide if their on-screen chemistry can become a real-life relationship.
by P.C. Cast
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On her eighteenth birthday, Morrigan Parker, daughter of a disgraced high priestess, is thrust into the mystical realm of Partholon, where she must embrace her destiny and wield her burgeoning power over earth to confront the ancient gods vying for her soul.
by George Bernard Shaw
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A shrewd, headstrong peasant girl, armed with divine conviction and an unwavering will, shatters centuries of patriarchal authority, only to be consumed by the very institutions she sought to save.