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by Angela Carter
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After her childhood is shattered, Melanie is thrust into a bizarre, puppet-filled world ruled by her toy-making uncle, where she must navigate a grotesque coming-of-age among life-sized dolls and mechanical birds.
by Halldór Laxness
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In early 20th-century Iceland, a determined sheep farmer battles the elements, poverty, and tradition to build an independent life for his family.
by Michael Morpurgo
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Separated by continents and circumstance, a boy and his orphaned white lion cub forge an unbreakable bond, promising a reunion that transcends the boundaries of time and memory.
by Marie Force
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A grieving widow returns to Gansett Island, hoping to rekindle a lost love and find happiness with the man who never forgot her.
by Meg Cabot
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A spirited heiress, sent from India to London to marry, finds her engagement upended by a meddling ship captain who might be saving her from a charming rogue.
by Oliver Goldsmith
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In a world of genteel poverty and unexpected troubles, the kind but naive Dr. Primrose faces misfortune, his Christian morality a guide against fate's twists.
by Kate Furnivall
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In 1928 China, a Russian exile and a Chinese freedom fighter fall in love amidst revolution, stolen jewels, and danger.
by Stuart Gibbs
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When a hippo dies at a new, high-tech zoo, 12-year-old Teddy Fitzroy must navigate corporate secrets, suspicious staff, and danger to find out why Henry the hippo died before he becomes the next victim.
by Matt Ruff
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A woman arrested for murder claims she belongs to the 'Bad Monkeys,' a secret group fighting evil; her sanity, and reality itself, break down under a psychiatrist's questioning.
by Elizabeth Chandler
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After a fatal car crash, a girl is brought back to life by the kiss of her deceased first love, only to find their reunion has awakened a dangerous supernatural force.
by Bryce Courtenay
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In WWI-era Australia, a tomboy's mercy for a killer sparks a lifelong fight for justice, love, and the truth of her child's father, mirroring the era's tragedies.
by Joe Dunthorne
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Armed with a thesaurus and a vivid imagination, precocious Oliver Tate navigates the treacherous, hormone-fueled waters of adolescence, attempting to salvage his parents' crumbling marriage while simultaneously pursuing the enigmatic Jordana Bevan and losing his own virginity.
by Michael Cunningham
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A Manhattan art dealer's ordered life and idea of beauty unravels with the arrival of his wife's younger brother, forcing him to confront the nature of his own desires.
by Virginia Woolf
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A young Englishwoman's sea voyage to a South American resort explores self-discovery, love, and the societal expectations for women in early 20th-century England.
by Henrik Ibsen
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In a town where money matters more than truth, a doctor's discovery of contaminated baths turns him into a public enemy, showing the high cost of integrity when it goes against what everyone else wants.
by Shayne Parkinson
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In 19th-century New Zealand, a farm girl's dreams of escaping her predetermined life collide with the arrival of two outsiders, forcing her to confront the steep price of a single, life-altering choice.
by Scott Westerfeld
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Six superpowered but deeply flawed teens, led by a charismatic manipulator and a boy with a dangerously persuasive inner voice, must reunite their fractured group to stop a new, equally powerful threat that emerges from a botched bank robbery.
by J. M. Coetzee
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A castaway asks a writer to immortalize her story of survival with Cruso and the silent Friday; this request becomes a deep look at truth, authorship, and narrative's power.
by Lori Foster
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by William Diehl
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A cynical defense attorney uncovers a shocking truth behind an archbishop's murder, only to realize his client's innocence is a more terrifying deception.
by Jayne Ann Krentz
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A human lie detector, already wary of deception in love, must team up with a mysterious consultant to unravel a deadly conspiracy after her brother-in-law's murder, forcing her to confront a dizzying storm of secrets and a sizzling, yet distrustful, attraction.
by Graeme Base
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Join Horace the elephant's elaborate eleventh birthday costume party to uncover which of his exotic, rhyming guests devoured the magnificent feast, hidden within Graeme Base's sumptuously detailed illustrations and witty verses.
by Jack Weyland
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A BYU student's organized life changes when he meets Charly, a spontaneous woman who teaches him to live and laugh.
by Lilian Jackson Braun
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A reporter, his perceptive mustache, and two brilliant Siamese cats unravel a murder amidst the eccentric antique dealers and hidden secrets of Junktown.