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by Jennifer Brown
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After a tornado destroys her world, a Midwestern teen finds hope and family while coping with loss and unfamiliar surroundings.
by Ray Bradbury
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In 1950s Venice, California, a writer's imagination blurs with reality as accidents plague his friends, forcing him to solve a series of events tied to his own creative power.
by Steven James
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An FBI criminologist known for tracking dangerous killers becomes the hunted when a murderer uses an ancient manuscript as a gruesome blueprint, forcing him to decipher its deadly clues before he becomes the final, shocking victim.
by Mary Renault
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During Athens' golden age, two wrestling friends navigate their city's athletic contests, the Olympic games, and the Peloponnesian War, their bond growing under Socrates's questioning gaze.
by Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth's satire follows four generations of Anglo-Irish landlords as their extravagant ways lead to decline, seen through the eyes of their loyal steward, and predicts the rise of a new class during Ireland's political unrest.
by Pyotr Kropotkin
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Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread' examines historical injustices and outlines an anarchist society where collective needs are met through revolutionary redistribution and cooperative effort.
by Sigmund Freud
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Freud, using personal and humorous stories, explains that our 'accidental' slips of tongue, memory lapses, and daily errors are actually deliberate actions from our unconscious mind.
by Matt Killeen
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An orphaned Jewish girl, disguised as an Aryan, infiltrates an elite Nazi boarding school to steal bomb blueprints, navigating dangerous friendships and secrets.
by Rex Stout
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When society widow Rachel Bruner enlists Nero Wolfe to outwit the FBI, the reclusive detective and his assistant Archie Goodwin find themselves in a high-stakes game against federal agents skilled in surveillance, shadow operations, and intimidation.
by Sylvia Day
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Eva Tramell and Gideon Cross are two damaged people who find an all-consuming love that could either heal or destroy them amid wealth, power, and dangerous secrets.
by Fay Weldon
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A wronged wife becomes a cunning she-devil, dismantling her husband's life and identity with satisfying revenge after he leaves her for a glamorous novelist.
by Farley Mowat
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A young boy's Saskatchewan home is hilariously upended and forever changed by the arrival of Wol, a skunk-gifting, minister-terrorizing owl, and Weeps, his flight-challenged, dog-loving companion.
by Steve Kluger
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In 1940s Brooklyn, a fatherless, baseball-obsessed boy's relentless pursuit of his New York Giants hero sparks an unlikely, heartwarming friendship that alters both their lives.
by Shaun David Hutchinson
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Ozzie's boyfriend vanishes from existence, and no one remembers him but Ozzie. As the universe shrinks, Ozzie races to find him, even as a new connection sparks an unexpected, forbidden love.
by Arthur Hailey
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A woman at the top of a pharmaceutical company finds a frightening conspiracy when a new drug's promise of healing conflicts with corporate greed, forcing her to choose between her job and exposing a deadly secret.
by Beverly Lewis
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Torn between her devout fiancé and a charismatic outsider shunned by the Amish, Rose Kauffman must navigate forbidden love and community judgment, while her sister, Hen, fights to reconcile her modern marriage with her traditional roots before a judge decides her daughter's fate.
by Ray Bradbury
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In a future where prehistoric safaris are a luxury, one misplaced step in the past unravels time and civilization.
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A Hawaiian man's life becomes a thrilling gamble when he buys a wish-granting imp in a bottle, only to discover selling it for less each time traps him in a desperate quest to avoid eternal damnation while securing his true love.
by Heather Killough-Walden
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A healer who dreams of two dangerous, destined werewolf mates—one a killer and the other a magic-averse man haunted by a warlock's past—finds her carefully constructed life utterly upended when fate throws them together.
by Kate Brian
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Trapped by a blizzard at a deserted elite academy, a perfect student's secret romance with a rebellious bad boy ignites a dangerous game, threatening to expose a secret that will unravel her carefully constructed world.
by John Steinbeck
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In John Steinbeck's "The Long Valley," the Salinas Valley is a stage for the hidden struggles of ordinary lives, where the land's bounty is often overshadowed by the complex tensions of human relationships.
by E.M. Delafield
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In 1930s Devon, a sharp-witted provincial lady navigates a delightful mess of social pretensions, domestic absurdities, and her own charmingly disaster-prone life.
by John Marsden
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Ellie Linton must face the truth that not all battles are won with bullets as she runs out of ammunition in a world overrun by ruthless invaders.
by Adriana Locke
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In a town where rules are meant to be broken, a woman seeking a fresh start finds her carefully constructed life upended by a dangerously charming man who challenges every exception she thought she'd made.