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by Bobbie Ann Mason
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In the summer of 1984, a Kentucky teenager confronts her father's Vietnam War past by seeking answers from silent veterans.
by Emily Rodda
4.1(2,470)
A determined boy defies the age-old rules of his besieged city to venture beyond its protective walls, risking untold terrors to find his lost brothers and confront the monstrous secret behind their world's destruction.
by Natasha Mostert
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A renegade hacker with psychic abilities dives into the opulent, alchemical world of two immortal witch sisters to solve a disappearance, only to find himself ensnared in a dangerous love triangle and a battle for his mind and soul.
by Tennessee Williams
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A faded golden boy returns to his Southern hometown, clutching a desperate, aging movie star and a fragile dream of lost love, only to confront the violent reckoning of his past.
by Elena Ferrante
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In post-war Naples, two women—one intellectual, one strong-willed—have a fierce, lifelong connection that shows the city's chaotic spirit.
by Derrick Jensen
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Jensen's memoir explores the ancient roots of violence, from childhood abuse to societal structures, urging us to find a language of connection older than our destructive habits.
by Mari Mancusi
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A West Texas teen discovers she can hear a dragon egg, pulling her into a future-spanning conflict between two brothers—one who wants to destroy it, and one who wants to protect it—with the world's fate at stake.
by Megan Crewe
3.9(2,462)
After a deadly virus devastates her world, a girl begins a dangerous journey with a stolen vaccine, fighting both the infected and desperate survivors while dealing with lost love and the burden of humanity's last chance.
by Colette
4.0(2,462)
A newly independent music-hall artist, Renée Néré, weighs the comfort of a wealthy suitor's love against her hard-won freedom and artistic self-sufficiency.
by Thomas King
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A guilt-ridden scientist, responsible for an environmental apocalypse, returns to his ancestral, deserted reserve to end his life, only to find mysterious, sky-fallen survivors emerging from the very ocean he seeks to drown in.
by Samantha Berger
4.0(2,457)
A grumpy boy turns into the monstrous Crankenstein when annoyed by everyday things, finding comfort and a cure for his crabbiness with an unexpected friend.
by Wilkie Collins
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Driven by intuition and love, Valeria searches across continents to prove her husband's innocence, three years after a 'Not Proven' murder verdict left him in legal and social limbo.
by Karen Kincy
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In a town where shapeshifting is a death sentence, Gwen's secret life as an owl becomes entangled with a serial killer targeting Others and a seductive fox-spirit who challenges everything she thought she knew about love and loyalty.
by Michael Carroll
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Four millennia after the world's first immortal, mind-reading superhuman enslaved nations, a disparate group of young heroes with burgeoning powers must unite to prevent his return and a new era of global tyranny.
by J.G. Farrell
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In 1939 Singapore, a ruthless rubber merchant and his family hold onto their colonial dream as war approaches, threatening their privileged world.
by Wendell Berry
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On a single September day in 1952, an aging Kentucky farmer, Old Jack Beechum, sifts through his life's memories, showing the lasting spirit and values tied to the land and its people.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Paul Revere's legendary ride, brought to life with art and historical detail, inspires a new generation with the spirit of American independence.
by Wendelin Van Draanen
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When a Halloween prank involving a 'skeleton man' and 'Frankenstein' turns into a real mystery with everyone hiding secrets, junior high detective Sammy Keyes must uncover the truth while keeping her own tricks up her sleeve.
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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In 19th-century Poland, a Jewish-Gentile magician known for his escapes and illicit affairs grapples with the ultimate trick: shedding his past, his faith, and his many loves to find true freedom.
by Marguerite Duras
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In the steamy heat of Indochina, a French girl's illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese man becomes a raw, unvarnished exploration of forbidden desire and the harsh realities that forged a legendary writer.
by Kelly Barnhill
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Sent to a peculiar Iowa town, an ordinary boy named Jack discovers he's the reluctant center of an ancient magical prophecy, hunted by a powerful foe, and the key to mending a community's broken past.
by D.H. Lawrence
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In a quiet English village, a sheltered rector's daughter finds her desires awakened by a charismatic gipsy, before a catastrophic flood shatters her world and unleashes forbidden passion.
by Yasutaka Tsutsui
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When a device blurs the line between shared dreams and waking reality, a psychotherapist's alter ego, Paprika, navigates a surreal world of escalating madness to prevent the unraveling of the human mind.
by Melissa Andrea
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Blinded by tragedy and stifled by a sheltered life, a former dancer finds a new world of light and love when a rebel enters her darkness.