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by Ann M. Martin
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A young girl with Asperger’s, who loves homonyms and her dog Rain, navigates a storm-damaged town and human connections when her dog is lost and found by his original owners.
by J.D. Robb
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In a futuristic New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her enigmatic billionaire husband, Roarke, must race against time to stop a vengeful serial killer who has escaped prison and is systematically targeting Eve on his twisted Christmas list.
by S.J. Kincaid
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A genetically engineered killer, disguised as a senator's daughter, navigates a dangerous galactic court filled with political plots and unexpected romance, while discovering her own humanity.
by David Foster Wallace
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In a slightly askew 1990 Cleveland, a young woman grapples with a disappearing great-grandmother, a jealous boss, and a cockatiel quoting Auden, all while navigating a reality where language itself seems to be unraveling.
by Darren Shan
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Half-vampire Darren Shan must outwit his fated enemy, Steve Leopard, in a final battle to prevent the world's destruction and avoid a destiny that promises either his death or his transformation into the harbinger of shadow.
by Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway's 'In Our Time' uses stark, simple stories to show the broken lives of soldiers, boxers, and bullfighters, revealing the harsh truth of post-World War I disappointment and the search for meaning in a damaged world.
by Matthew Reilly
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An American linguist races a shadowy group and ancient Incan guardians to find a hidden, alien idol in the Peruvian jungle—an artifact with the power to save or destroy humanity.
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Five tales explore Earthsea's hidden histories, forgotten magic, and the human hearts navigating its dangerous beauty.
by Aimee Carter
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A young mother faces an impossible choice: save her child, her loved ones, or the entire world from a vengeful Titan king.
by Raymond Chandler
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In sun-drenched, shadow-laden Los Angeles, Philip Marlowe investigates disappearing wives, where truth shifts and deceit lingers.
by Tommy Wallach
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With an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, a diverse group of high school seniors sheds their labels to discover love, purpose, and their true selves in the two months before the world ends.
by Brenna Yovanoff
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A changeling boy allergic to iron and holy ground must navigate his monstrous origins and forbidden human crush when his beloved's sister is stolen into the dark, magical underworld he desperately tries to escape.
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nietzsche unearths Judaeo-Christian values of compassion and equality not as divine truths, but as chains designed to shackle humanity's primal, aristocratic spirit.
by Brian Jacques
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Torn between the father who abandoned him and the adoptive mother who loved him, a young ferret named Veil must choose whether to embrace his birthright of evil or defend the abbey that cast him out.
by Madame Lafayette
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In a 16th-century French court, a virtuous princess, ensnared by an unspoken love for a charismatic duke, confesses her forbidden desires to her devoted husband, unraveling a tragic cascade of honor, passion, and despair.
by Jackson Pearce
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Scarlett, a fierce werewolf hunter with a hatchet and blood-red cloak, seeks vengeance for her lost eye while her sister Rosie, bound by debt and love, yearns for a life beyond the hunt, caught between loyalty and a forbidden romance with their only ally.
by Jack Gantos
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Grounded for the summer and prone to nosebleeds, young Jack finds his summer plans upended when he types obituaries for his utopian town's founders, uncovering murder, molten wax, and historical secrets that bring the past dangerously to life.
by Bret Easton Ellis
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In 1980s Los Angeles, privileged, disconnected people drift through betrayal, sex, and dread, their lives unraveling into quiet desperation and unseen violence.
by Isaac Asimov
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A 1949 tailor, accidentally sent 20,000 years into the future, must navigate a radioactive, ageist Earth in a vast Galactic Empire that despises its origins, all while trying to avoid a mandatory death sentence for being two years too old.
by Robert Jackson Bennett
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A master thief with the power to rewrite objects' very natures finds an artifact that could unravel a city built on magical capitalism, forcing her to embrace a terrifying transformation or watch the world be rewritten by those who would enslave it.
by Tess Gerritsen
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A medical resident's morally charged decision to re-route a harvested heart plunges her into a terrifying conspiracy within Boston's elite transplant world, where falsified records and a hidden ship in the harbor conceal a murderous truth.
by Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey explores two millennia of religious thought to uncover a complex, unpredictable, and transforming Jesus often hidden by modern Christian views.
by Sarai Walker
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A disillusioned, overweight woman seeking bariatric surgery finds a radical feminist underground, which forces her to confront society's beauty standards and her own body image as a violent revolution against misogyny begins around her.
by Emily Murdoch
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After a decade of secluded forest life with their mentally ill mother, two sisters are thrust into modern society, forcing the elder to confront the dark secrets of their past and the true reason for their abduction before it shatters their fragile new world.