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by Lois McMaster Bujold
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On a world without women and facing a reproductive crisis, a naive male obstetrician must travel into the galaxy to secure his planet's future.
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Rousseau explores how humanity fell from a good, pre-social state into tyranny, showing how systems meant to protect us instead corrupt our nature through growing inequality.
by Karan Mahajan
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After a marketplace bombing shatters two families, a surviving boy deals with trauma and radicalization, while the bomber's story shows the effects of political violence.
by Vladimir Nabokov
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An aging art critic's pursuit of a manipulative teenage mistress in Weimar-era Berlin spirals into a chilling descent of folly, betrayal, and destruction, orchestrated by a rival.
by William Shakespeare
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In the early Roman Republic, a proud warrior's contempt for common people and his mother's ambition drive him from battlefield glory to bitter exile and a devastating alliance with his deadliest enemy.
by Ian Fleming
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Join the eccentric Pott family as their magnificent, self-driving car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, soars and floats them into a whirlwind adventure to outwit a notorious gang of robbers.
by Salman Rushdie
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Rushdie's magical-realist epic follows the doomed romance of a Kashmiri clown and dancer, the assassination of an American counterterrorism chief, and the devastating clash of worlds across continents and generations.
by Dr. Seuss
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In a world divided by toast-buttering preferences, the Yooks and Zooks escalate from slingshots to world-ending weaponry, comically illustrating the absurd and perilous nature of an arms race.
by James Fenimore Cooper
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A young frontiersman raised by Native Americans faces tribal warfare, the ruthlessness of 'civilized' men, and a woman's will, shaping his spirit into a moral compass in the wilderness.
by Raymond Chandler
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In the sun-drenched, shadow-laden world of 1940s Hollywood, Philip Marlowe navigates a serpentine trail of blackmail, drug rings, and escalating murders, all sparked by a seemingly innocent search for a missing brother.
by Robert Ludlum
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A Nazi's defection threatens to expose the 'Scarlatti Inheritance,' a secret that could ruin powerful Western figures and change World War II.
by Susan Patron
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Convinced her French guardian is abandoning her, ten-year-old Lucky flees her quirky desert town with her dog and a hefty survival pack, determined to find her own 'Higher Power' amidst the vast, unpredictable Mojave.
by Kenneth Oppel
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Separated from his colony during a perilous migration, a tiny Silverwing bat named Shade must navigate a world of monstrous owls, strange allies, and carnivorous vampires to find his way home.
by Charles Frazier
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A twelve-year-old orphan's journey to run a remote trading post in the Cherokee Nation becomes a lifelong story of love, belonging, and finding identity in a changing world.
by Joel C. Rosenberg
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A young Jewish man, after escaping Nazi Germany and joining the resistance, must find a way to break out of the horrific Auschwitz death camp and expose the Holocaust to a world on the brink of collapse.
by Manuel Puig
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In an Argentine prison, a flamboyant homosexual's movie stories become a bridge to intimacy with a Marxist, even as a dangerous ultimatum closes in.
by Lauren Barnholdt
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After a summer of secret kisses with her best friend's boyfriend, Hannah navigates the treacherous first day of senior year, where every glance and whispered word threatens to expose her betrayal and redefine her understanding of love and loyalty.
by Julie Cross
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Stuck two years in the past, a heartbroken time-traveler races against shadowy 'Enemies of Time' to master his powers and rewrite a tragic future, all while trying to save the girl he loves and possibly the world.
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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An eight-year-old girl's 1960s childhood on a Canadian Air Force base ends with a local murder, forcing her to uncover family secrets and the complexity of human morality over two decades.
by Larry McMurtry
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An aging Texas Ranger, now a bounty hunter, hunts a young bandit across the frontier, confronting his past.
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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On the crimson plains and frozen poles of Mars, John Carter races against time and monstrous foes to reclaim his beloved Dejah Thoris, only to find himself perpetually outmaneuvered in a high-stakes game of interplanetary pursuit.
by Jennifer Crusie
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A woman escaping her ex-husband gets tangled in a funny, ghost-filled adventure with his magically mischievous wards, forcing her to face both supernatural hauntings and the lingering feelings from their past.
by Augustine of Hippo
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Augustine's spiritual autobiography follows his search for God through his sinful past, examining memory, desire, and human nature with a philosopher's mind and a convert's heart.
by Kim Edwards
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Haunted by her father's death, Lucy finds forgotten objects in her childhood home, uncovering a dark family secret that will redefine her past and future in the mysterious Lake of Dreams.