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by Charlaine Harris
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by Olga Tokarczuk
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In a secluded Polish village, an eccentric astrologer and animal lover embarks on a personal crusade to uncover a series of bizarre murders, convinced the perpetrators are not human and that only she can decipher the celestial clues.
by Claire Messud
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A quiet elementary school teacher's hidden artistic dreams turn into a dangerous obsession when she falls for a captivating, bohemian family, only to face a devastating betrayal from her muse.
by Paulo Coelho
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Discover your inner warrior and live your most authentic life by embracing self-discovery and finding wisdom in everyday challenges.
by Roald Dahl
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When a young girl's uncontrollable 'magic finger' transforms her hunting-obsessed neighbors into birds, they discover the terrifying reality of life as the hunted.
by Robert Hughes
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Robert Hughes's "The Shock of the New" takes readers on a journey through a century of modern art, explaining the changes from Cubism to Pop Art.
by Jordan B. Peterson
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Find meaning and purpose by balancing order and chaos in a world that often seeks control.
by Nora Roberts
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An impulsive lawyer buys a decaying New Orleans mansion, uncovering a century-old tragedy and a passionate romance as he battles ghostly visions and unearths the house's dark secrets with a woman tied to its past.
by Seanan McGuire
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Trapped in a twisted parental experiment, twin sisters Jacqueline and Jillian escape to a macabre fairytale world of mad scientists and dangerous choices, only to discover some cages are of their own making.
by Alison Weir
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Forced onto the throne as a teenage pawn in a deadly Tudor power struggle, Lady Jane Grey navigates religious fervor and familial betrayal, ultimately sacrificing her young life for a crown she never desired.
by Cecelia Ahern
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A woman who finds lost things disappears into 'Here,' a place for all that's missing, making her face what loss and belonging really mean.
by Steve Krug
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Design websites so intuitive that users don't have to think, transforming their experience.
by Elly Griffiths
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A solitary forensic archaeologist, who likes ancient bones and two cats, is drawn into a modern mystery when child remains on a desolate beach link to a decade-old disappearance, a taunting killer, and her Iron Age home.
by Richard K. Morgan
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A jaded mercenary hunts an alien starship gate on a war-torn planet, navigating radioactive ruins and deadly nanotechnology in a future where consciousness shifts bodies, proving loyalty only to himself.
by Julia Donaldson
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A clever mouse outwits a parade of predators and a mythical monster by spinning tales of a terrifying Gruffalo, only to discover the beast is real.
by Jordan Belfort
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Jordan Belfort's memoir is a wild ride through the decadent 90s, where an insatiable appetite for wealth, drugs, and debauchery propelled him from selling Italian ices to orchestrating a multi-million dollar stock fraud empire, only to see it all spectacularly collapse.
by Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking explains the universe's biggest mysteries, from the Big Bang to black holes, in a way that makes sense, inviting everyone to understand space and time without complex math.
by Michael J. Sullivan
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A cynical master thief and a disillusioned warrior, forced into an uneasy alliance, must infiltrate an unbreachable fortress to steal an arcane artifact, all while battling their mutual animosity and a kingdom's worth of impossible defenses.
by Mariana Zapata
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A figure skater about to abandon her Olympic dreams must partner with her rival, leading to a romance that melts their animosity.
by James Rollins
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A deadly plague linked to an ancient threat sweeps the globe. A SIGMA Force commander races against time with an unlikely ally, following Marco Polo's trail to a cure hidden in humanity's genetic code, all while battling a madman and potential betrayal.
by Maureen Johnson
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Pulled from the enigmatic Ellingham Academy, true-crime sleuth Stevie Bell is forced to choose between unraveling a decades-old mystery that has already claimed one classmate and protecting a fragile, forbidden romance with the son of a powerful, manipulative politician.
by Elizabeth Kostova
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A psychiatrist's ordered life shatters when a renowned painter's violent obsession with a 19th-century French Impressionist mystery pulls him into a labyrinth of lost loves, artistic genius, and historical tragedy spanning generations and continents.
by Laura Sebastian
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Imprisoned and stripped of her identity, a young queen, forced to endure a decade of torment, must sharpen her mind into a weapon to reclaim her stolen throne and avenge her murdered mother.
by Jasper Fforde
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In a rainy Reading where nursery rhyme characters are real and crime is absurd, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt solves Humpty Dumpty's murder amidst a conspiracy of money laundering, beanstalk problems, and the arrival of the JellyMan.