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by Oscar Wilde
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A once-blind prince, now a statue, finds redemption and true beauty by sacrificing his riches through a loyal swallow to ease his city's suffering.
by James M. McPherson
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McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom" examines the political, social, and military events of the American Civil War, showing how different ideas of liberty caused the nation's deadliest conflict and ultimately created a 'new birth of freedom'.
by J.D. Robb
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts a killer targeting men connected to a New York City prep school, while an ex-lover of her husband Roarke tries to break up their marriage.
by Hillary Jordan
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In a future America where criminals are 'chromed' with the color of their sins, a young woman genetically marked as a 'Red' for murder must question her faith to survive.
by Seth Godin
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Success is not about never giving up, but knowing when to quit the wrong things so you can focus on conquering the right challenges and achieve excellence.
by Charles Dickens
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In London, where trash heaps are more valuable than people, a mysterious inheritance looms. An orphaned girl and a disguised suitor navigate social ambition, deceit, and the surprising strength of love.
by Georgette Heyer
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Sophy, a lively woman from the Continent, arrives at her London relatives' home, disrupting their proper but troubled lives with her charm and bold plans to solve everyone's problems, including her own romantic future.
by Kathy Reichs
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When a hidden cellar shrine holding a teenage girl's skull and a headless boy's body found nearby ignite a witch hunt, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan must untangle a deadly mix of voodoo, Santería, and devil worship before the vigilantes' thirst for revenge claims more innocent lives.
by Paul Zindel
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Two rebellious teenagers, seeking an escape from their own troubled lives, unexpectedly find solace and a surrogate family with a lonely, eccentric old man, only to confront the devastating consequences of their friendship and his mortality.
by Gordon Korman
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A tie-dye-clad, Zen-spouting homeschooler named Cap is thrust into the chaotic, pizza-and-wedgie-filled world of public middle school after his hippie grandmother's accident, forcing him to navigate a social jungle far wilder than any commune.
by J.D. Robb
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Detective Eve Dallas confronts the murder of her abusive foster mother, Trudy Lombard, forcing her to untangle a web of vengeance while facing her own past.
by Maggie O'Farrell
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When a forgotten great-aunt is released from a sixty-year asylum stay, a young woman unearths a haunting legacy of family secrets, Victorian-era confinement, and the dangerous truths that bind generations.
by Betty Mahmoody
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Trapped in Iran by her fanatical husband, an American mother must navigate a treacherous underground and defy cultural oppression to escape with her young daughter, even if it means leaving her behind.
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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In the Florida scrubland, a boy's bond with a rescued fawn becomes a heartbreaking lesson about survival and sacrifice.
by Steven Erikson
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In Darujhistan's stifling summer, old crimes surface, assassins become targets, and love and death arrive together, marked by distant Hounds and the Son of Darkness's coming judgment.
by Joelle Charbonneau
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In a future divided, a survivor of a deadly academic trial must navigate dangerous politics and unite her classmates to lead a rebellion against a harsh government, even if it means sacrificing everything.
by Maggie Stiefvater
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With ley lines unraveling and ancient magic awakening, Blue must face the prophecy of her true love's death while fighting to save the boys she loves and their magical world.
by Winston Graham
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Returning scarred from war, Ross Poldark finds his inheritance in ruins and his beloved engaged, forcing him to rebuild his life and mine amidst the rugged Cornish landscape and the unexpected affections of a spirited scullery maid.
by James Patterson
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As a relentless killer targets San Francisco, Sergeant Lindsay Boxer races against time and an internal police conspiracy, all while battling a mysterious illness that threatens to unravel her own life.
by Marie Brennan
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Lady Trent, a pioneering naturalist, defies expectations in a world of dragons, studying these beasts and changing scientific understanding.
by S. Jae-Jones
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A young musician must brave the enchanting and perilous Underground, confronting the seductive Goblin King and her own desires, to rescue her sister before she's forever bound to his shadowy realm.
by Charles Bukowski
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by Michael J. Sullivan
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After a human kills an immortal god, the fragile peace between mortals and their divine rulers shatters, starting a rebellion that will either bring freedom or doom humanity.
by Tamora Pierce
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Provost's Guard Beka Cooper must find a kidnapped prince and expose a plot against the Tortallan royal family, navigating unfamiliar lands and deciding who to trust among the elite.