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by Scott Westerfeld
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Disguised as her identical twin, a determined Frey navigates a city where emotions are regulated by tech, only to be thrust into an all-out war as she hunts for her sister and plots her father's downfall.
by Jacqueline Wilson
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Confined to a 1953 children's TB ward while the world outside celebrates a new queen, Elsie finds her own reign of imagination and friendship through nightly storytelling, aided by a majestic white cat named Queenie.
by Jawaharlal Nehru
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In a series of personal letters, Jawaharlal Nehru explains Earth's history, humanity's beginnings, and civilization's growth to his ten-year-old daughter, Indira, turning global history into a captivating bedtime story.
by Mark Russinovich
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Two years after averting global cyber-catastrophe, analyst Jeff Aiken and agent Daryl Haugen face an invisible, untraceable trojan that distorts reality itself, threatening to collapse the digital world and ignite a new global conflict.
by Randy Wayne White
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Marine biologist Doc Ford goes into the Everglades to find a friend's missing husband and confronts a guru's plan that endangers people and the environment.
by Carol Lynch Williams
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In an isolated, polygamous community, thirteen-year-old Kyra must defy a tyrannical Prophet and risk everything to escape a forced marriage to her sixty-year-old uncle, all while secretly devouring forbidden books and dreaming of a love she can choose.
by Stewart O'Nan
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After a single, devastating phone call shatters her world, Patty Dickerson navigates nearly three decades of quiet resilience, raising her son and enduring societal judgment as her husband serves time for murder and arson.
by Michael Morpurgo
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Washed ashore on a remote island during WWI with no memory but a love for music, a mysterious girl named Lucy, and the boy who found her, must navigate a world of suspicion, war, and the haunting melodies that may unlock her past.
by Wendelin Van Draanen
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High-tops and a sharp wit lead Sammy Keyes into a high-stakes art gallery heist, where the real masterpiece is a subtle, dangerous deception far beyond a simple stickup.
by Kim Edwards
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From the scorching stages of a fire king to the quiet resilience of a Korean war bride, these stories illuminate the hidden magic and enduring humanity of outsiders across generations and continents.
by William Lindsay Gresham
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A ruthless charlatan rises from carnival squalor to high-society spiritualism, his self-delusion ensuring his inevitable, horrifying return to the abyss he tried to escape.
by George Bernard Shaw
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A quick-witted woman, Candida, navigates the affections of a passionate young poet and her socialist clergyman husband, challenging Victorian ideas of romance and home life.
by Ann Radcliffe
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In a ruined 18th-century French abbey, an orphan named Adeline finds sinister relics and faces a Marquis's advances, making her flee a past and present filled with violence and philosophical questions.
by Chelsea M. Cameron
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Two high school seniors with planned lives find their futures upended when an unexpected connection ignites in AP English, forcing them to question if love can truly wait.
by Anne C. Voorhoeve
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Torn from her family by the Kindertransport, a young German girl navigates the Blitz and discovers a new identity and an unexpected family amidst the chaos of wartime London.
by Roddy Doyle
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When a father of four eats his son's chocolate biscuit, a secret society of magical pranksters called the Gigglers starts a funny, rude, five-stage 'Giggler Treatment' to teach him a lesson.
by Kevin J. Anderson
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Mulder and Scully race to stop a series of radioactive obliterations, uncovering an otherworldly threat that could incinerate humanity.
by Tim Winton
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Abby, a young girl, forms a strong bond with a large blue groper named Blueback, learning about conservation and the ocean.
by John Galsworthy
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The Forsyte family navigates the early 20th century, where Victorian propriety clashes with new desires, threatening their world of wealth and social standing.
by Georges Bataille
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Amidst Europe's descent into fascism, a man's surreal odyssey through squalor, sadism, and drunken encounters mirrors civilization's collapse, blurring the lines between victimhood and the monstrous allure of power.
by Richard Peck
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In 1890s Bluff City, Blossom Culp, known for her made-up ability to see ghosts, faces a terrifying reality when her lie becomes truth, sending her as a spectral passenger onto the ill-fated Titanic.
by Barbara Wright
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In the racially charged summer of 1898, 11-year-old Moses navigates family secrets, generational divides, and the hope of Black empowerment in Wilmington, North Carolina. This hope is brutally shattered by a violent political coup that rewrites history.
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
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Eighteen-year-old Shabanu, already a mother and battling the rigid customs of her husband's household for her daughter's future, finds her world further upended by an illicit love affair within the ancient walls of a Lahore haveli.
by Sayed Kashua
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An Arab-Israeli lawyer's carefully built life falls apart due to jealousy and an identity crisis after he finds a love letter in his wife's handwriting, leading him to track down the letter's former owner.