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by Sara Pennypacker
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A well-meaning but perpetually misunderstood third-grader named Clementine navigates a calamitous week filled with accidental haircuts, principal's office visits, and strained friendships, all while trying to make things right.
by Lars Kepler
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A drowned woman with dry clothes and a a man hanged in an empty room pull Detective Inspector Joona Linna into a Stockholm mystery where impossible deaths are just the beginning.
by E.H. Gombrich
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Gombrich condenses the vast scope of human history, from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, into forty clear chapters, showing our collective journey, successes, and failures for young readers.
by Jasper Fforde
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A cynical 15-year-old orphan manages a failing magician agency in a world where magic is mostly for pizza delivery. She must face her destiny when the last dragon approaches a fated end.
by Rachel Kushner
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In the 1970s, a young artist named Reno moves from New York's art scene into the world of Italian motorcycle racing and radical politics, hoping to define herself through speed, art, and revolution.
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 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 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 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 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 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.