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by Jack Canfield
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Achieve success by focusing intensely, turning distractions into opportunities for a balanced and prosperous future.
by Lottie Moggach
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A reclusive coding genius is lured into an online world of ethical debate, only to find herself entangled in a charismatic guru's plot to steal the identity of a glamorous, desperate woman.
by Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir addresses human existence's inherent lack of meaning, using it to build purpose and values.
by Emily Rodda
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When a forgotten music box unleashes a powerful witch and traps his adventurous cousin within its painted world, a rule-abiding boy must brave a whimsical, dangerous land to find the key that will save them both.
by Alfred Jarry
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King Ubu, a ridiculous and crude character, takes power. His rule quickly turns into a farcical display of gluttony and greed, exposing how easily authority can be debased. Audiences often find it both shocking and funny.
by Jeffrey Archer
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A tied vote in the House of Lords starts a series of life-changing events for the Clifton family, from political battles and transatlantic journeys to young Sebastian's involvement in a dangerous international art fraud.
by Valerie Solanas
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Valerie Solanas's manifesto declares war on patriarchal society, calling for the elimination of men and an all-female, automated world to free women from an unbearable life.
by Moss Hart
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The unexpected arrival of a famously curmudgeonly lecturer, confined to a small-town home by a broken hip, unleashes six weeks of uproarious chaos and transforms the lives of his bewildered hosts.
by Philip Roth
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A young writer's idolization of a literary master unravels into a mystery when he meets a beautiful, enigmatic woman in the secluded Lonoff home, sparking his imagination to weave a dramatic, secret history.
by William Faulkner
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In the racially charged Deep South, a young white boy races against a lynch mob to prove the innocence of an elderly black farmer accused of murder, repaying a life debt and confronting the town's ingrained prejudices.
by Victoria Lee
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A technopath survivor, born of undocumented immigrants, infiltrates a magical elite to fight for refugee rights, but finds his resolve challenged by the defense minister's captivating and dangerous son.
by Nancy Farmer
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Thirteen-year-old bard-in-training Jack plunges into a treacherous 790 AD Britain, battling unruly monks, ancient gods, and a menagerie of mythical creatures to rescue his sister from the Lady of the Lake, all while grappling with his own burgeoning, earthquake-inducing magic.
by Francis Fukuyama
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Fukuyama argues that the global spread of liberal democracy might mark humanity's ideological endpoint, exploring what this means for identity, conflict, and progress in a 'post-historical' world.
by David Lodge
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A pragmatic factory boss and an idealistic feminist academic clash over industrial efficiency and literary theory, only to find their worlds, and themselves, surprisingly intertwined.
by E.L. Doctorow
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In the shadow of his executed Communist parents, Daniel pieces together their passionate lives and tragic deaths, grappling with a nation's ideals fractured by Cold War paranoia and his own inheritance of purpose and pain.
by John Reed
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An American journalist's account of the ten days in 1917 when Petrograd exploded with revolution, soldiers and peasants united, and Lenin took power, changing history forever.
by Yukio Mishima
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In a Japan grappling with modernity, a charismatic young patriot, steeped in the samurai code, ignites a desperate terrorist plot to restore the Emperor's power and dismantle the industrialists he believes are corrupting the nation's soul.
by Robert Sharenow
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In Nazi-era Berlin, a young Jewish cartoonist wants to prove himself during rising persecution. He finds an unexpected way to self-discovery and family protection through boxing legend Max Schmeling, even as his hero's loyalties become dangerously unclear.
by Tamera Alexander
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In 1870s Colorado, a determined woman seeking to rein in her wayward brother finds her own independence challenged and her guarded heart reawakened by a mysterious inheritance and a U.S. Marshal grappling with his past.
by Simon Singh
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Explore the hidden mathematical brilliance in The Simpsons and Futurama, from pi to P vs. NP, revealing the clever minds behind Springfield's enduring humor.
by Orson Scott Card
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In a fractured America torn apart by a brutal civil war, a brilliant strategist must unite a nation on the brink of annihilation, forcing citizens to choose sides in a conflict that threatens to consume their world.
by Alice Hoffman
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As their last summer together ends, two friends find an unexpected adventure with a heartbroken mermaid in their local pool, who needs to find love before she evaporates in the August sun.
by Anya Seton
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An 18-year-old's dream of escaping rural life for luxury with a mysterious relative at his gothic upstate New York estate, Dragonwyck, quickly descends into a nightmare of dark secrets and terror.
by Liz Jensen
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A boy with many near-fatal accidents falls into a coma, leading a doctor to uncover dark secrets in his extraordinary life.