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by Charles Baudelaire
4.3(10,578)
In 19th-century Paris, Baudelaire examines the city's intoxicating squalor and fleeting beauty, creating a new prose poetry that reflects a restless era.
by Frederick Douglass
4.3(10,571)
Frederick Douglass escapes slavery, finding his freedom and articulating a complex vision for emancipation that influenced the world.
by Clive Cussler
4.1(10,568)
When a covert ship encounters a mysteriously decimated cruise liner, its one-legged captain is thrust into a race against a deadly cult's apocalyptic plot to unleash a global plague.
by Iain Banks
3.9(10,567)
A man with no memory wakes on an endless bridge, haunted by war dreams and drawn to his rescuer's daughter, as he faces the unsettling truth of his own fractured self.
by Robert Greene
4.3(10,566)
Learn from military history's greatest minds with 33 strategies for success in any competition, from the boardroom to personal life.
by Guy Delisle
4.0(10,559)
Through the eyes of a cartoonist, 'Burma Chronicles' offers a witty and humanizing look into the everyday absurdities and quiet resilience of life under a military junta.
by Johanna Reiss
3.9(10,551)
Two Jewish sisters spend years in the claustrophobic confines of an upstairs room, hidden from Nazi invaders in rural Holland, grappling with fear, boredom, and the terrifying unknown fate of their family.
by Charles Dickens
3.7(10,548)
In a cathedral town, a choirmaster's opium-fueled obsession leads to his nephew's disappearance, a mystery that has puzzled readers for generations.
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3.5(10,516)
A famous pianist arrives in a strange European city, unable to remember his concert or his past, as reality shifts around him, revealing a life spiraling out of control.
by Robert Tressall
4.0(10,515)
Through the eyes of working-class painters, Tressell exposes the raw, often humorous, and ultimately tragic realities of Edwardian-era labor, class struggle, and the elusive promise of socialism.
by A.J. Betts
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Confined by cancer but drawn by an undeniable spark, two cynical teens navigate the fragile line between friendship and first love as they fight for their lives and a future outside the hospital walls.
by Polly Horvath
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After her parents are lost at sea, an eccentric eleven-year-old navigates the unusual adults of a small Canadian town, finding comfort, culinary knowledge, and belief in her parents' return at a diner where every dish, including the guinea pig, might just end up on a waffle.
by Tillie Cole
4.5(10,502)
A museum curator, unlucky in love, finds romance with a reclusive sculptor, only to discover he hides a dark secret that could shatter her dreams.
by Mary Pope Osborne
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The Magic Tree House sends Jack and Annie to a Wild West ghost town, where they must outsmart horse thieves, avoid rattlesnakes, and solve a spectral mystery to help a cowboy before sundown.
by Elizabeth Hunter
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In Istanbul's heart, a woman seeking her past is guarded by a haunted warrior. Their impossible passion sparks hope against an ancient race's demise and deadly secrets threatening them both.
by Arkady Strugatsky
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An undercover agent from a utopian future struggles with the moral dilemma of observing a brutal medieval society on an alien planet, where he's forbidden to directly intervene and accelerate their bloody path to enlightenment.
by Anton Szandor LaVey
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LaVey's guide challenges Judeo-Christian beliefs, encouraging carnal indulgence, self-empowerment, and rational individualism.
by Nick Burd
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During his last summer before college, Dade navigates a secret relationship, his parents' divorce, and a new love, ultimately facing identity and heartbreak to find his own path.
by S.E. Hinton
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Fifteen-year-old Tex, whose greatest loves are his horse and his best friend's sister, finds his carefree world shattering as his absent father, a restless older brother, and escalating trouble threaten to tear apart his life in rural Oklahoma.
by Wilbur Smith
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In 1667, a father and son aboard their fighting caravel hunt treasure-laden Dutch galleons off the dangerous Agulhas Cape, starting a brutal quest for riches and power that builds their legend across the high seas from Good Hope to the Horn of Africa.
by Daniel Silva
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A CIA operative, haunted by a past encounter, races against time to unmask a ghost-like assassin whose signature triple-tap to the face reappears after a catastrophic airline bombing, forcing him into a deadly, personal hunt where every step closer endangers his family.
by James Franco
3.0(10,472)
In Palo Alto's sunny, yet dangerous world, connected stories show California teenagers' raw, self-destructive lives as they face violence, nihilism, and a desperate search for meaning on youth's edge.
by Wilbur Smith
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In the 18th century, a sea captain and his three sons sail from England to Arabia and Africa, fighting pirates and forging their destiny in a wild continent.
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
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A heatwave grips Stockholm, causing appliances to malfunction and the recently deceased to reawaken, leading to a haunting return of the dead.