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by Alice Hoffman
4.0(67,460)
During the Roman siege of Masada, four independent women, working as dovekeepers, navigate love, loss, and survival while confronting their hidden pasts.
by Frank Herbert
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For 3,500 years, the immortal, part-sandworm God Emperor Leto Atreides II has ruthlessly guided humanity along his 'Golden Path,' manipulating destiny and sacrificing his own humanity to ensure mankind's ultimate survival against an unknowable, existential threat.
by Samantha Downing
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A suburban couple, bored with their fifteen-year marriage, finds a shared secret involving murder to be a twisted aphrodisiac.
by Nora Roberts
4.0(67,245)
After a New Year's Eve plague brings magic and chaos, survivors navigate society's ruins, finding purpose and new beginnings as ancient good and evil awaken.
by Brandon Sanderson
4.5(67,237)
On a planet where humans fight for survival against aliens, a determined girl finds her calling as a pilot by befriending an ancient, sentient spaceship.
by Isaac Asimov
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In a vast galactic empire nearing collapse, a young mathematician, Hari Seldon, invents a science that predicts the future, making him central to humanity's survival or ruin.
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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A hundred colonists set out to terraform Mars, battling the hostile planet and their own clashing ideas, ambitions, and loyalties as they try to build a new world.
by Tina Reber
4.0(67,072)
A small-town bartender, nursing a broken heart, finds her world upended when a global movie star, seeking refuge from his chaotic fame, crashes into her quiet pub and her life, igniting an unexpected romance that Hollywood's glare threatens to tear apart.
by John Flanagan
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Young Will endures Skandian slavery, while his mentor Halt, a disgraced Ranger, defies kings and travels a dangerous path with Horace to reclaim him before hope fades.
by Michael Crichton
3.5(66,876)
In a future where genetic manipulation is common, 'Next' is a thriller about stolen genes, chimp-human hybrids, and a collapsing sense of reality, showing humanity's dangerous relationship with its own genetic future.
by Patricia Cornwell
4.0(66,825)
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta investigates a secluded 'body farm' to solve the murder of an 11-year-old girl, uncovering a truth that shatters a small North Carolina town.
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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In 1957 Barcelona, a mysterious visitor to a bookshop uncovers a two-decade-old secret, making Daniel Sempere and Fermín Romero de Torres face the dangers of Franco's dictatorship and the truths hidden in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
by Karen Joy Fowler
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Six modern people in sunny California discuss Jane Austen novels, finding their own lives reflect the books' romantic and social challenges.
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nietzsche dismantles conventional morality and religious dogma, urging individuals to create their own values and embrace a 'will to power' in a complete re-evaluation of Western thought.
by Matt Haig
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A centuries-old man, tired of outliving loved ones, risks everything for a forbidden romance. This relationship might teach him to live in the present, despite a secret society watching him and his past memories.
by Daniel Clowes
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In a post-graduation summer, cynical best friends Enid and Becky navigate the awkward start of adulthood and the unsettling prospect of their inseparable bond fracturing.
by Agatha Christie
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When a glamorous, unknown corpse appears in their library, the respectable Bantry couple must rely on Miss Marple's sharp wit to unravel a web of deceit and prevent village gossip from unraveling their lives.
by C.J. Tudor
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Thirty years after a game of chalk figures led them to a dismembered body, a new chalk man resurfaces, forcing Eddie and his childhood friends to confront the dark secrets of their past before a killer erases them all.
by C.J. Roberts
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Driven by a burning quest for vengeance, a man kidnaps a spirited young woman to mold her into a weapon against his past, only to find himself entangled in a dangerous dance of control and forbidden desire.
by Patrick Ness
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In a world where all thoughts are audible, two young lovers must navigate a three-way war between vengeful aliens, desperate human factions, and an approaching wave of settlers, forcing them to choose between personal survival and the fate of an entire planet.
by Kate Morton
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A mysterious letter draws a young woman to a crumbling English castle, where wartime secrets, a jilted bride, and three eccentric sisters force her to confront her own mother's hidden past.
by A.G. Riddle
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An ancient Antarctic discovery and a modern genetic breakthrough spark a global conspiracy, forcing a geneticist and an agent to race against a powerful enemy intent on unleashing the next, deadly stage of human evolution.
by Emma Donoghue
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In a remote 1859 Irish village, an English nurse must determine if an eleven-year-old girl's months-long fast is a divine miracle, a cruel hoax, or a desperate act of faith, forcing her to confront the dark heart of belief and the lengths one will go to save a life.
by Eleanor Catton
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In 1866 New Zealand, a young prospector uncovers a mystery involving twelve men, a missing fortune, and strange events, all tied to fate and the stars.