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by J.M. Barrie
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Before Neverland, Peter Pan was a forgotten baby, living a whimsical, secret life amongst the birds and fairies of London's Kensington Gardens, learning to fly with the help of a mischievous crow and a thimble-sized kiss.
by Patricia C. Wrede
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In Elizabethan England, two sisters discover love and ancient secrets while navigating a magical forest and a mysterious bear, in a fresh retelling of a classic fairy tale.
by Padmasambhava
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This ancient Tibetan guide explains the path from life to death and beyond, with practices for daily transformation and insights into the after-death state.
by Barbara O'Connor
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Sent to live with strangers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a determined wish-maker discovers that a skinny stray dog and an unexpected friendship might just grant her a different kind of wish entirely.
by Philip Reeve
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In a post-apocalyptic London where women are deemed illogical, an engineering apprentice named Fever Crumb deals with forgotten memories and a mysterious past that links her to the city's monstrous history and uncertain future.
by Sylvia Brownrigg
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A seventeen-year-old college freshman becomes an eager, if ultimately heartbroken, pupil to an enigmatic older graduate student, learning about literature, love, and life's harsh lessons in a passionate, East Coast coming-of-age story.
by Alyssa Rose Ivy
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Navigating freshman year and a supernatural society, Allie finds herself entangled with the future king, her destiny now linked to a world she can no longer escape.
by Spencer Quinn
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When a pampered show dog and her owner disappear, canine detective Chet and his human Bernie must find the dognappers and untangle a dangerous plot.
by Sigmund Freud
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Freud's book explores how society, religion, and morality began, connecting the incest taboo and Oedipal complex to human civilization.
by Russell Banks
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A teen runaway named Bone navigates the drug-fueled world of 1990s rural New York, finding his way to self-discovery and belonging.
by Ernest Becker
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Ernest Becker's Pulitzer-winning work argues that humanity's deepest motivations, from heroism to madness, are defenses against the terrifying, unacknowledged truth of our own inevitable death.
by Elizabeth Brundage
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In a town marked by an unsolved murder, a professor's wife is found dead, revealing family secrets, old suspicions, and a chilling look at psychopathy that affects a community for decades.
by Jenny Carroll
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A modern teen's forbidden love for a 19th-century ghost clashes with the spectral fury of his murdered fiancée, who demands an end to backyard construction to keep her lover's century-old secret buried.
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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D.J. Schwenk, a girl who'd rather be in the background, finds herself front and center on the basketball court, in the spotlight of college scouts, and in the complicated tangle of new romance and an undeniable past love.
by Nancy Milford
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Zelda Fitzgerald's life with F. Scott Fitzgerald was a dazzling, tragic story of madness, artistic struggle, and fiery demise, forever entangled in the shadow of his ambition.
by Jon McGregor
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A single day on a quiet English street unfolds into a web of interconnected lives, where ordinary hopes and despairs build to a sudden, shattering tragedy and a surprising twist that redefines everything.
by Gaston Leroux
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A young woman is attacked in a room locked from the inside, but her assailant disappears without a trace, creating a mystery that defies logic.
by Tom McNeal
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In the isolated town of Never Better, a young outcast, Jeremy Johnson Johnson, finds his only friend and protector in the mischievous ghost of Jacob Grimm. Jacob warns him of a growing evil, just as a curious local girl threatens to expose their secret, putting their otherworldly bond and the town at risk.
by Julia Golding
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A disciplined princess and a carousing prince, forced into an arranged marriage for the sake of their kingdoms, must survive kidnapping, brainwashing, and a host of treacherous characters to forge an alliance and perhaps, an unexpected love.
by Karen Armstrong
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Karen Armstrong explores humanity's ancient search for the sacred, showing how modern rationalism has clouded our understanding of God and arguing for a return to religion as a compassionate, experiential practice vital for our divided world.
by Yasunari Kawabata
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A celebrated writer's reunion with his former, much younger lover ignites a dangerous game of obsession and revenge, orchestrated by her jealous protégée amidst the ancient beauty of Kyoto.
by Chris Claremont
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Wolverine travels to Japan to win the heart of the woman he loves, Mariko, but must first defeat her criminal father and his army of ninjas.
by Lisa McMann
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A kidnapped boy's return at sixteen shatters his family's peace as forgotten memories expose a truth more terrifying than his absence.
by Jerry Seinfeld
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Jerry Seinfeld dissects the mundane absurdities of everyday life, from the proper way to eat a Junior Mint to the existential dread of airplane peanuts, with his signature observational wit.