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by Dan Simmons
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A Holocaust survivor hunts a secret society of psychic manipulators who feed on human violence and orchestrate history's darkest atrocities, leading to a confrontation that will decide the fate of mankind.
by Ken Follett
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In the dangerous summer of 1941, an ordinary Danish teenager uncovers a secret that could change World War II, forcing him to risk everything on a broken biplane he can barely fly to deliver the information to England.
by Charlotte Brontë
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Penniless and proud, William Crimsworth navigates the currents of ambition and unrequited love in a Belgian boarding school, finding his voice and an unexpected intellectual kinship.
by Marguerite Yourcenar
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This novel shows the burdens of power, the comfort of philosophy, and the human search for meaning through the eyes of a dying emperor.
by Rosamund Hodge
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Haunted by a reckless choice that bound her to darkness, a warrior akin to Red Riding Hood must guard the prince she despises to find a legendary sword and avert an eternal night, all while navigating treacherous palace secrets and an unexpected, dangerous love.
by Jerry Bridges
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Jerry Bridges explains the Christian's active part in seeking holiness, separating God's role from human effort to connect God's command with daily life.
by Tan Twan Eng
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After World War II, a Japanese internment camp survivor, haunted by her past, apprentices herself to a former Imperial gardener to build a memorial, uncovering secrets, forbidden desire, and war's lasting impact during a communist insurgency.
by Morgan Rhodes
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As kingdoms fracture and ancient gods awaken, desperate royals and rebels clash in a brutal war for a throne, a stolen crystal, and survival itself.
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Undercover as a copywriter, Lord Peter Wimsey enters the 1930s London advertising world, facing catapults, cocaine, and cricket to find the killer who pushed a colleague down a staircase.
by Lorrie Moore
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After 9/11, a naive college student nannying for a mysterious family learns about love, loss, and racial identity in a small American town.
by Lauren Groff
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by Nayyirah Waheed
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Nayyirah Waheed's 'Salt' is a stark, minimalist poetry collection that reveals the truths of Black womanhood, identity, and resilience through short, strong verses.
by Saul Bellow
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Plagued by academic and marital ruin, Moses Herzog desperately scribbles unsent letters, a modern Job wrestling with his own spectacular failures and the absurdities of the age, all while clinging to a defiant, if crumbling, sense of self.
by Jamie Ford
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A determined Chinese-American orphan escapes 1930s Seattle to chase a film star he believes is his mother, uncovering a complex past.
by Isaac Asimov
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From humanity's first steps into the cosmos to the universe's heat death, a persistent question about reversing entropy drives the evolution of intelligence.
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Teenage Nick Gautier must master dating, driving, and his growing dark powers to save the world, or destroy it, as those who want him dead, including his own father, try to seal his destiny.
by Alex Flinn
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A rebellious modern teen accidentally awakens a 17th-century princess with a kiss, sending them on a chaotic adventure across time, dodging royal anger, and navigating a 316-year age gap.
by Ian Fleming
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James Bond goes undercover to expose a diamond-smuggling operation, uncovering a criminal network and a plot that threatens more than just precious gems.
by Claire Legrand
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A prophecy foretells two queens, one of light and one of blood. Their intertwined lives, centuries apart, will either save their war-torn world from an ancient evil or doom it to darkness.
by William Gibson
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In a future where past and present collide, a small-town gamer stumbles into a murder in a virtual London, unknowingly intertwining her fate with a publicist seventy years in the future, as both their realities unravel with dangerous consequences.
by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft, the audacious mother of modern feminism, ignited the spark of female independence in a world alive with the rights of man. She demanded equal education and professional identity over docile decorum.
by Maggie Nelson
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Maggie Nelson explores love, loss, and seeing through the color blue, turning it into a way to think about desire, suffering, and truth.
by John Irving
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An Indian film star, an American missionary, and a group of eccentrics, including separated twins and a dwarf chauffeur, head for a showdown with a serial killer in a story of fate and dark comedy.
by William Kent Krueger
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Former sheriff Cork O'Connor battles a Minnesota blizzard and his own past to solve murders and disappearances, uncovering a conspiracy at the heart of his snowy hometown.