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by Sudha Murty
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From a drought-stricken woman's selfless act of providing water to a talkative man's inability to listen, Sudha Murty uncovers surprising lessons in the everyday lives of ordinary people.
by Andy McDermott
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Archaeologist Nina Wilde and ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase race through South American jungles, battling soldiers and cartels to unearth El Dorado before its gold falls into the wrong hands.
by Yasmine Galenorn
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As a half-Fae, half-human priestess in a polyamorous marriage with supernatural beings, Camille must survive her dragon father-in-law's schemes and a dangerous foe's return, which threatens to shatter her life.
by Nick Lake
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Trapped beneath rubble after a Haitian earthquake, a gang-affiliated teen fights for survival, drawing strength from the revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture and his quest to find his lost twin sister.
by Jacqueline Davies
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When a lemonade stand's profits go missing, a fourth-grade class turns their playground into a courtroom, making them deal with justice and the emotional cost of accusation.
by Vladimir Nabokov
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In a world suffocated by the tyrannical 'Average Man' party, a grieving philosopher becomes the last bastion of individualism against his toad-like school enemy, only to discover the chilling power of a state machine far greater than its grotesque orchestrator.
by Iain Pears
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Across three tumultuous centuries in Provence, three men grapple with love, loyalty, and the nature of civilization, all while haunted by an ancient philosophical text that challenges their every choice.
by Harriet Doerr
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An American couple hoping to revive a forgotten copper mine in a remote Mexican village finds not riches, but deep lessons about life, fate, and belonging from the community they first struggled to understand.
by Matt Myklusch
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From the grim confines of a New Jersey orphanage, an ordinary boy named Jack discovers he's the key to an extraordinary, hidden world of comic-book heroes and villains, a world he must save or destroy with his newfound, incredible power.
by Robert Beatty
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A young night-spirit thief, raised to fear the 'day-folk,' uncovers a shattering truth about her own people's corruption and must choose between loyalty to her crumbling society and the unknown path of compassion and alliance to save her ancient forest home.
by Harry Crews
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In rural Georgia, a beauty queen's desire to escape clashes with the chaos of the annual Rattlesnake Roundup, threatening her life.
by Gordon Korman
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A new kid, desperate to make the football team, finds an unlikely mentor in a former NFL star whose eccentric behavior and hidden struggles threaten to derail everything.
by T.L. Smith
4.0(3,863)
A man consumed by a decade of darkness rejoices at the sight of the woman who shattered his world, now broken and bleeding, because her devastation mirrors his own.
by Andrew Clements
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Gwen prepares for high-stakes music auditions, but her grandfather's sudden disappearance and a mysterious discovery with a fellow musician force her to confront a truth that changes her view of the future.
by Chinua Achebe
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In a post-colonial African nation, a young teacher's campaign against his corrupt former mentor ignites a personal and political conflict, pushing their country toward revolution.
by George Bernard Shaw
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Don Juan and Ann Whitefield battle for the future of humanity, debating societal roles and evolution through witty conversation and the eternal conflict between the sexes.
by H.G. Wells
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A 19th-century insomniac wakes up two centuries later to a future where he is worshipped as the world's master, only to find his adoring public holds deadly secrets and hidden enemies.
by Samuel Beckett
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On his deathbed, the octogenarian Malone rambles through contradictory, often enraged, and darkly witty tales of his decaying existence, finding fleeting solace in the distant, wild barks of dogs.
by Norman Mailer
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In the heart of Zaïre, Norman Mailer writes about the 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle,' examining the fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, the clash of their personalities, the meaning of a continent, and the nature of human struggle.
by Rabindranath Tagore
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In colonial Bengal, a captivating young widow's arrival starts a storm of forbidden desires, jealousy, and social upheaval within a seemingly harmonious household, challenging tradition and loyalty.
by Annie Barrows
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Transported to 1935 by an old farmhouse, Miri, a lonely middle child, discovers a chance to create her own family by helping a girl from the past find hers.
by William J. Lederer
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In the jungles of Southeast Asia, well-meaning but culturally blind American diplomats and soldiers stumble through a web of arrogance and incompetence, inadvertently fueling the rise of communism they sought to extinguish.
by Todd Strasser
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When a blog post wishing popular students dead comes true, Madison must find the anonymous writer before her name appears on the list.
by Deborah Ellis
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Determined to escape a Pakistani refugee camp, fourteen-year-old Shauzia navigates Peshawar's streets, finding brief safety and hope before returning to her past.