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by Robert Henri
3.9(19,646)
Robert Henri's timeless wisdom guides you to see, feel, and express the world with passion and authenticity, helping you find joy in creativity.
by Keri Hulme
4.0(19,646)
On the wild South Island shores, a reclusive artist, a mute shipwreck survivor, and his volatile Maori foster father are drawn into a maelstrom of longing and violence, battling the very attachments they crave.
by Yann Martel
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A taxidermist gives a writer a strange manuscript about a donkey and a monkey, sending him on a quest to uncover hidden meanings of the Holocaust.
by Jacqueline Winspear
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In Nazi-occupied Europe, Maisie Dobbs, working for the SOE, must solve a murder witnessed by a young messenger. The crime unexpectedly connects to her secret war efforts and threatens to expose a dangerous conspiracy from the Great War.
by Peter Carey
3.8(19,635)
Ned Kelly, Australia's most infamous bushranger, reclaims his story through raw, unpunctuated prose, shifting his image from an outlaw into a misunderstood folk hero shaped by colonial injustice and family silence.
by Madeleine L'Engle
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A freak storm catapults a young girl through time to an ancient world where she must navigate a society of spear-wielding warriors and the threat of human sacrifice to find her way home before the temporal portal seals forever.
by Sebastian Junger
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Sebastian Junger examines the reality of combat, showing the strong bonds formed between soldiers facing daily danger in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
by Sidney Sheldon
3.6(19,615)
A relentless TV anchorwoman, chasing the truth behind a wealthy family's 'accidental' deaths, uncovers a global conspiracy of assassinations and secret auctions, where friends become foes and no one can be trusted, all while unseen forces manipulate her world and endanger her loved ones.
by Paul Murray
3.7(19,601)
At Seabrook College, the death of fourteen-year-old Skippy uncovers a funny and sad story of teenage problems, secret love, and the cruel acts of students and adults.
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3.8(19,584)
After her daughter's suicide, a Japanese woman in England remembers a summer in post-bomb Nagasaki, where a mysterious friendship and unspoken grief confuse truth and regret.
by P.G. Wodehouse
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In a world of misplaced affections, dropped edibles, and upper-class foolishness, only Jeeves's calm and cunning can rescue Bertie Wooster and his friends from their self-made problems.
by Mary Pope Osborne
3.9(19,551)
Two siblings are whisked by a magic tree house into a medieval castle, where they must navigate a feast of peacocks and boys in skirts as unexpected, and unwelcome, guests.
by William Goldman
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A graduate student and marathon runner is pulled into international espionage, torture, and murder after his brother's visit, forcing him to uncover a diamond conspiracy and answer the chilling question: 'Is it safe?'
by Julian Barnes
3.7(19,543)
Under Stalin, composer Dmitri Shostakovich walks a dangerous line between artistic honesty and survival, his music a quiet protest against Soviet rule.
by Kim Stanley Robinson
3.8(19,529)
Generations after humanity fled Earth, a conscious starship faces the harsh truths of interstellar travel as it nears a new, uncertain home.
by Tony Kushner
4.3(19,525)
In 1980s New York City, an angel tells a gay man with AIDS that he is a prophet, making him confront his mortality, his identity, and a nation's spiritual crisis.
by Peter Carey
3.7(19,517)
In a world of Victorian constraints, a scrupulous clergyman and a rebellious heiress, both compulsive gamblers, risk everything on a glass church and an undeclared love that defies societal odds.
by Robin Roe
4.3(19,513)
A well-meaning but impulsive senior with ADHD uncovers the dark secrets of his long-lost foster brother, Julian. Helping him could unravel both their lives.
by Mary Downing Hahn
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A malevolent century-old ghost, rising from a fiery past, manipulates a lonely stepsister into a deadly friendship, drawing her ever closer to a watery grave while her stepsiblings race against time to unravel the spectral trap.
by Rudyard Kipling
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After a rich boy falls from a luxury liner, a fishing schooner rescues him, and its crew teaches him about hard work and the ocean.
by Tony Kushner
4.3(19,439)
In the face of celestial and earthly collapse, broken souls find fractured grace and the courage to rebuild amidst the rubble of the AIDS epidemic and Reagan eras.
by Carolyn Keene
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Nancy Drew's quick thinking and courage are tested when a deserted bungalow hides more than just secrets, endangering her life as she uncovers a friend's problem.
by Joan Bauer
4.0(19,419)
A spunky teen chef ignites a small Wisconsin town, stirring up hope and a mayoral campaign with her aunt against a corrupt incumbent, proving that even a diner can be the heart of a revolution.
by Doris Lessing
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Through fragmented notebooks, a writer dissects her fractured psyche and the disillusionment of post-war communism, striving to unify her identity amidst personal betrayals and societal shifts.