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by Julie Buxbaum
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Fifteen years after an iconic 9/11 photo made her a symbol of hope, a teenager seeking anonymity at summer camp collides with a boy whose family was shattered by the same tragedy, forcing them to confront the shared, painful history that binds them.
by Lauren Myracle
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Four middle school girls with flower names, from different cliques, find their lives entwined through messages, blogs, and film dreams, all while navigating the social scene led by the school's queen bee.
by George Lakoff
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This book shows how hidden metaphors in everyday language shape our thoughts and actions, often without us knowing it.
by Chingiz Aitmatov
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A man in the Kazakh steppes struggles with ancient traditions and cosmic encounters, reflecting the Soviet Union's conflict between its earthly roots and celestial goals.
by Jeff VanderMeer
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Nature reclaims civilization with a sinister twist as a biologist joins an all-female expedition into the mysterious Area X, where the greatest threats might not be the alien landscape but the secrets they carry.
by Thomas Perry
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With ancient Seneca wisdom and modern guile, Jane Whitefield masterfully erases lives, but her latest disappearing act for an ex-cop plunges her into a deadly trap that threatens to erase her own existence.
by Richard Powers
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An aging composer, mistaken for a bioterrorist because of his home microbiology lab, flees authorities with a plan to turn his search for hidden musical patterns into a final artistic statement.
by Gary Paulsen
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On a 19th-century Southern plantation, a slave risks severe injury to secretly teach a young girl to read, starting a dangerous spread of forbidden knowledge and hope.
by Jean Ferris
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When a supposedly drowned, memory-addled queen resurfaces with a slacker princess and a man of surprising destiny, newlyweds Christian and Marigold must defend their happily-ever-after from a zany royal reclamation.
by Homer
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Explore ancient Greek foundational myths as gods and goddesses reveal themselves to mortals, showing the interaction between divine and human realms.
by Allan Bloom
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Allan Bloom argues that America's 20th-century social and political unrest comes from an intellectual crisis in its universities and culture, not from economic or power struggles.
by Agatha Christie
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A young man's dream of building a perfect life on a beautiful, cursed plot of land unravels into a chilling nightmare orchestrated by a soul inherently drawn to evil.
by Gustave Flaubert
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This story follows a devoted servant woman whose life, marked by loss and an enduring search for love, subtly challenges the realism Flaubert so skillfully created.
by Lillian Hellman
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In their Southern estate, the Hubbard family's greed and betrayals lead to a ruthless fight for wealth, where only Regina truly wins.
by Barry Hines
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In a bleak Yorkshire mining town, a neglected boy's only escape from a brutal future is the kestrel he secretly trains.
by Aldous Huxley
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A post-apocalyptic expedition to nuclear-ravaged California discovers that humanity's greatest destruction lies not in radiation, but in its own moral decay.
by Jack Kilborn
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Four female athletes check into a remote West Virginia inn for a triathlon, only to find themselves trapped by a terrifying entity with a penchant for presidential decor and gruesome fates.
by Svetlana Chmakova
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After tripping into a quiet boy and earning the ire of mean kids, a new student grapples with her shame and an inter-club rivalry, discovering that sometimes breaking the rules is the only way to navigate the awkwardness of middle school.
by James Baldwin
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In these eight raw and unflinching stories, James Baldwin dissects the ingenious and often desperate measures his characters employ to survive the suffocating weight of racism, familial betrayal, and personal demons in a world determined to drown them.
by Richard Ford
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In the stark beauty of the American West, Richard Ford's "Rock Springs" unveils the quiet desperation and resilience of ordinary lives, etched with prose as sharp and clear as a desert wind.
by Robert Littell
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From the Cold War's shadowy battlefields to the corridors of power, CIA operatives navigate a world of assassinations, covert wars, and betrayals, while hunting for a mole within their own ranks.
by Walter Scott
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A young English idealist finds his loyalties fractured and his destiny forged amidst the wild beauty and brutal realities of the the 1745 Jacobite Rising, caught between the dying embers of feudal Scotland and the dawning age of British unity.
by Samuel Beckett
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In 1930s London, Murphy, a man uncomfortable with the physical world, seeks a home and fortune, finding peace in an asylum and an absurd freedom.
by Katie Kacvinsky
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Dylan and Gray fall in love, but learn that a lasting romance requires embracing challenges and the willingness to apologize.