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by Ishmael Reed
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In 1920s America, a Vodun priest and private eye, Papa LaBas, fights a global puritanical group to protect the growing jazz movement from an 'epidemic' of Black artistic expression and find an ancient text that could ensure its freedom.
by Mary-Rose MacColl
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An elderly Iris returns to France, revisiting the WWI abbey hospital where she found love, purpose, and heartbreak while searching for her brother amidst a world at war.
by Scott Mariani
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An ex-SAS operative, now a billionaire's bodyguard, uncovers a neo-Nazi plot to rewrite history, forcing him to confront a past ghost and race across Europe to protect loved ones and prevent global disaster.
by Lee Strauss
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In a genetically perfected future, a privileged teenager's quest to avenge her murdered brother forces her to trust an outsider, unraveling a conspiracy that threatens the very definition of life.
by Rudyard Kipling
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Mowgli faces new challenges in India's wild, and the jungle has stories of ancient power and cunning. Kipling wrote these tales from Vermont.
by Dia Reeves
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In a town where strange is normal, two sisters with a killer family history find an urge to kill and a door to another dimension, ensuring their 'justified' murders leave no trace.
by Nancy Springer
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With mismatched eyes and growing magic, a young Morgan defies a war-torn Britain, determined to make her own way amid kings and betrayals.
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
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On the last day of senior year, two academic rivals go on an all-night scavenger hunt across Seattle. They find their long-standing animosity hides a growing romance.
by Will Ferguson
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An editor finds a self-help manuscript so effective it changes his life and threatens to reshape global contentment.
by Karen Robards
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A prosecutor's new life shatters when a ghost from her past—a fellow participant in a deadly teenage robbery—emerges from the defendant's dock, threatening to expose her secret and destroy everything she holds dear, forcing her into a dance with a suspicious, yet alluring, homicide detective.
by Gil Courtemanche
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In 1994 Kigali, a cynical foreign journalist falls for a Tutsi waitress at the Mille-Collines hotel, their affair leading to a desperate fight for survival as the Rwandan genocide erupts.
by Laurie Forest
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Hunted and alone, Elloren must use her forbidden Black Witch powers and ally with her enemy, Lukas Grey, to stop the Shadow Wand from destroying her world and everyone she loves.
by Elliot Aronson
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Aronson explores the social forces—from conformity to cults—that shape our choices and destiny.
by Sophocles
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Deianira tries to win back Heracles's love with a supposed charm, but it turns out to be a poison that kills them both.
by Laura Resau
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Torn from her Andean village at seven to serve a mestizo family, Virginia navigates a world of prejudice and cultural clashes, ultimately finding her voice and identity in Ecuador.
by Michaela MacColl
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In 1838 London, penniless Liza works as a lady's maid to Princess Victoria, uncovering palace intrigues and finding her own way amidst secrets, betrayals, and a romance.
by Barbara Gowdy
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Threatened by humans, a young, clairvoyant elephant calf named Mud goes on a dangerous quest to find the mythical 'White Bone,' believed to be the key to her herd's survival.
by Anita Desai
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In the timeless fishing village of Thul, two children, Hari and Lila, grapple with their parents' despair and the encroaching modern world as their family teeters on the brink of collapse.
by Alice Munro
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Alice Munro writes about women in rural Ontario, showing their hidden desires and quiet struggles with love, betrayal, and self-discovery in everyday life.
by Leonora Carrington
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Armed with a magical hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby uncovers a surreal murder mystery and a gateway to the underworld within the bizarre, birthday-cake-shaped walls of her new asylum.
by Alex Adams
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A pregnant woman wakes in a broken, post-apocalyptic world; her scattered memories are the only way to understand what happened and fight the monsters hunting her.
by Ousmane Sembène
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Senegalese railway workers strike for dignity, and women, driven by hunger and injustice, march to Dakar, breaking colonial oppression and traditional norms to secure their families' future.
by Alyson Noel
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A New York transplant navigates the social hierarchy of a Southern California private school, learning that popularity comes with a hidden cost and the unspoken rule of never crossing the queen bee.
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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A young man from a traditional village finds a magical star in his birthday cake, allowing him to enter the dangerous, beautiful land of Faery for a lifetime of adventure.