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by Garth Stein
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A teenage boy in a Puget Sound mansion, built from trees his family cut down, uncovers a century of timber-baron secrets and a vengeful ghost. He must face a legacy of environmental damage to save his family and their ancestral land.
by Yvonne Woon
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After discovering her parents' bizarre murder, a grieving teen is sent to a mysterious boarding school where she falls for an enigmatic boy, only to uncover a dark secret connecting him, the academy, and the very nature of life and death.
by Cynthia Rylant
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After Aunt May dies, a young girl and her uncle search for a sign of her presence, eventually learning that grief and the quiet continuation of life can exist together.
by Elizabeth C. Bunce
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In a town built on wool and shadowed by an old curse, Charlotte Miller must bargain with a stranger who spins straw into gold, risking her heart and family legacy to break a dark enchantment before it destroys everything she loves.
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
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Three teenage girls, sent to a Georgia peach orchard for the summer, find friendship and discover themselves amidst new romances and personal challenges.
by James Jones
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On Guadalcanal, 'The Thin Red Line' shows how brutal combat strips C-for-Charlie Company of meaning, leaving only a raw fight for survival and identity.
by Annabel Pitcher
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A guilt-ridden teenager anonymously confesses her involvement in a tragic love triangle to a death row inmate, hoping to find peace through letters across continents.
by Poppy Z. Brite
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In the goth clubs of Missing Mile and the shadowy streets of New Orleans, young outcasts meet ancient vampires, beginning a violent road trip where love, hunger, and fate collide.
by Adrian Tomine
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A graphic novel follows Ben Tanaka, a cynical Japanese American, as he navigates rocky relationships, racial hang-ups, and his own self-loathing in a cross-country quest for an elusive ideal woman and contentment.
by Brad Meltzer
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Two jaded Washington D.C. staffers put their lives at risk when a secret, high-stakes betting game turns deadly. They must rely on an idealistic teenage Senate page to expose a killer before they become the next victims.
by Yukio Mishima
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In 1912 Tokyo, a young aristocrat's hidden love for his childhood friend turns into a tragic obsession when she is promised to a prince, disrupting their lives and the balance between duty and class.
by Evelyn Waugh
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After World War I, a generation of young people navigates Mayfair's ballrooms and reckless parties, using their pursuit of pleasure as a fragile shield against a changing world.
by Mindy McGinnis
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In a dry, post-apocalyptic world, a young woman guards her family's last water source with a rifle, until desperate strangers threaten her isolated life.
by Simon Beckett
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Trapped on a storm-battered Scottish island with a killer, forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter must piece together a gruesome, incinerated body to unmask a murderer before he becomes the next victim.
by Sterling North
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In 1918 Wisconsin, a boy named Sterling finds a companion in a baby raccoon named Rascal. Their bond grows through a changing world, leading to an inevitable, bittersweet farewell as Sterling grows up.
by Anton Chekhov
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Three sisters in a provincial town dream of returning to Moscow, but their hopes slowly disappear as they face unfulfilled desires and the quiet sadness of their lives.
by Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley writes about his mescaline experience, where ordinary things gained divine meaning and his sense of self disappeared.
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
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Before he was a Beekman Boy, Josh Kilmer-Purcell navigated the glittering, gritty underbelly of 1990s New York City, balancing his advertising job with a chaotic life as a drag queen competing in beauty pageants.
by Holly Black
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Imprisoned and reviled, Callum Hunt must confront the terrifying legacy of a dark magician who inhabits his very soul, as he grapples with the power to resurrect the dead and prevent a war that threatens to shatter the magical world.
by Maile Meloy
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In 1952 London, a new girl and a spy-dreaming apothecary's son must decipher a magical, ancient book of potions to rescue his kidnapped father from Russian agents bent on nuclear destruction.
by Victoria Aveyard
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by Walt Whitman
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Whitman's "Song of Myself" invites readers to embrace all existence, finding the divine, the democratic, and the individual within themselves and everything around them.
by Shel Silverstein
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A lonely wedge's search for completion turns into a journey of self-discovery, as it learns that true belonging comes from rolling independently, like the 'Big O'.
by Leigh Bardugo
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In a village haunted by the legend of man-eating woods, a young woman uncovers a chilling truth: the real monster might be closer than any shadowed tree.