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by Carole Wilkinson
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An orphan girl in ancient China must overcome her shyness to protect the last dragon and his purple stone from a cruel empire and dark magic.
by Brian Herbert
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Humanity's last hope flees into the unknown. A resurrected Paul Muad'Dib must face the truth of the Kwisatz Haderach and the origin of the Honored Matres as the war between Man and Machine ends.
by David Halberstam
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Halberstam examines the world of professional basketball, showing the connection between talent, travel, and the unseen pressures that shape legends.
by Sarah Weeks
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After her pie-queen aunt bequeaths her secret recipe to a remarkably disagreeable cat, a young girl named Alice must unravel a culinary mystery amidst a pie-crazed town to discover the true ingredients of happiness.
by Mark Frost
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A seemingly ordinary teenager, forced into a clandestine prep school after his parents' disappearance, uncovers his latent superhuman abilities and a millennia-old war tied to his very existence.
by Marcus Sedgwick
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On a mysterious, isolated island, two souls are bound by an ancient curse, reliving fragmented lives and searching for each other across seven distinct historical eras, each marked by a different moon.
by William James
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William James, a psychologist, examines individual experiences of faith, showing a range of human spirituality that needs tolerance and respect.
by Oliver Sacks
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In a Bronx hospital, Dr. Sacks uses a new drug to wake catatonic patients from decades of sleep, showing the sad, brief beauty of their reanimated lives.
by Robert B. Cialdini
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Learn how to prepare people's minds before you speak, making them open to your message and more likely to agree.
by Amy Bloom
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A young Russian immigrant, Lillian Leyb, travels from New York's Yiddish theaters to the Alaskan wilderness in search of her lost daughter after surviving a brutal attack.
by Ted Dekker
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An FBI agent hunts a serial killer who adorns his beautiful victims with bridal veils, forcing him to seek help from a mysterious young woman with an uncanny connection to the killer's dark world.
by Carolyn Keene
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When a cryptic message arrives via carrier pigeon, Nancy Drew is propelled into a shadowy mystery surrounding a sinister retreat and the secrets it holds.
by D.B. Reynolds
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Malibu's elite includes powerful vampires. When a Vampire Lord's beloved is kidnapped, he enlists a human private investigator. Their search ignites a dangerous passion that threatens to consume them both amidst betrayals and deadly foes.
by Michael Ondaatje
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In 1970s Northern California, a violent act shatters a makeshift family, propelling its members across continents and decades as they grapple with the indelible echoes of their shared, fractured past.
by Lucy Score
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A Brooklyn maid of honor must work with the insufferable, yet attractive, best man to save her best friend's wedding, only to find him her biggest challenge yet.
by Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley's novel dissects the intellectual elite of the 1920s, showing the comedy and tragedy that comes from their ideals clashing with their messy lives.
by John Saul
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In Eastbury, healthy babies die mysteriously, forcing terrified parents to face a horrifying truth that twists life and death.
by Martin Amis
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In a London near collapse, the alluring Nicola Six, haunted by visions of her own death, sets two men against each other, forcing them to confront the murder she knows one of them will commit.
by Joanne Harris
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Through the eyes of Loki, the ultimate trickster, see the rise and fall of Asgard, where every divine triumph and betrayal is painted with a mischievous, self-serving brush.
by Michelle Paver
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In a desperate midwinter quest, Torak must brave the dangerous stronghold of the Soul-Eaters to rescue his kidnapped wolf-brother from a chilling sacrifice.
by Charles Baudelaire
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In 19th-century Paris, Baudelaire examines the city's intoxicating squalor and fleeting beauty, creating a new prose poetry that reflects a restless era.
by Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass escapes slavery, finding his freedom and articulating a complex vision for emancipation that influenced the world.
by Clive Cussler
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When a covert ship encounters a mysteriously decimated cruise liner, its one-legged captain is thrust into a race against a deadly cult's apocalyptic plot to unleash a global plague.
by Iain Banks
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A man with no memory wakes on an endless bridge, haunted by war dreams and drawn to his rescuer's daughter, as he faces the unsettling truth of his own fractured self.