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by Sister Souljah
4.5(31,573)
In a harsh Brooklyn winter, Winter, a wealthy drug dealer's daughter, uses her intelligence and charm to survive a life that is falling apart.
by Aristotle
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Aristotle's Politics examines the ideal state, citizen education, and wealth's purpose, while comparing his ideas to Plato's to define the best human life.
by Marie Lu
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The White Wolf's quest for vengeance, fueled by dark powers, forces her to confront past betrayals and ally with enemies to save her empire from herself.
by Wallace D. Wattles
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Understand the universe's 'thinking substance' and create wealth through focused thought and action, improving your life and those around you.
by Agatha Christie
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When a woman claims to have killed her husband, only for him to turn up dead with her having an ironclad alibi, Hercule Poirot must untangle a web of lies where nothing is as it seems.
by Melina Marchetta
4.0(31,446)
Transferred to an all-boys' school, a teenager grapples with her identity and her mother's depression, finding strength in unlikely places to save her family and herself.
by Elizabeth George Speare
3.8(31,421)
Stranded in the vast Maine wilderness, a young pioneer boy must choose between the uncertain hope of his family's return and the unexpected kinship of a Native American tribe offering him a new home.
by Laurell K. Hamilton
3.8(31,407)
During a lull in everyday life, vampire executioner Anita Blake must fight the resurrected Mother of All Darkness, who wants to control Anita's body and all American vampires, forcing Anita into a battle for her very self with the chilling warning to 'Run if you can...'
by Joshua Ferris
3.5(31,405)
At a failing ad agency, quirky colleagues navigate corporate decline with gossip, forbidden romances, and elaborate pranks, all while their 'work' shrinks to a mysterious pro-bono campaign.
by Agatha Christie
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A dying Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings reunite at Styles to catch a murderer, 'X,' before they kill again, in a final case that costs the detective his life.
by Luanne G. Smith
3.8(31,342)
A cursed vine witch returns to her ancestral French vineyard, masquerading as a mortal to uncover the betrayal that stole seven years of her life and now threatens the man who inherited her legacy.
by Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt's "Teacher Man" follows his thirty-year journey through New York City classrooms, where his unconventional methods, rebellious students, and personal struggles shaped him into a Pulitzer-winning storyteller.
by L.J. Smith
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Resurrected and with new powers, Elena is caught between two vampire brothers' love and a creature that possesses one and wants her dead.
by Tad Williams
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An undead Sithi king's dark sorcery threatens the land. A desperate prince and a forgotten order race to unravel ancient mysteries before their final confrontation in the haunted stronghold of Asu'a.
by Lisa See
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In pre-WWII San Francisco, three showgirls form a strong bond that betrayal and the threat of war break, forcing them to face their loyalties and the cost of their secrets.
by J.D. Robb
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When a fellow cop and friend of her chief medical examiner is brutally murdered, Lieutenant Eve Dallas must navigate a web of secrets stretching from Atlanta to New York, only to find the killer's taunting threats connect directly to her own dark past, promising a deadly confrontation.
by Tracy Chevalier
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A timid English Quaker, adrift in 1850s Ohio, finds her quiet principles ignited into defiant action as she's swept into the perilous, clandestine world of the Underground Railroad.
by Francine Rivers
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A condemned Christian slave languishes in a Roman dungeon. A Germanic gladiator seeks John the Baptist to reclaim his son, finding redemption amidst the empire's ashes.
by Jay Crownover
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A sassy, commitment-wary bartender with a broken heart finds unexpected love and healing with a scarred, emotionally rigid ex-soldier battling his own war demons.
by Paulo Coelho
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Mata Hari's journey, from a penniless dancer to a celebrated Parisian courtesan, led her into a web of wartime suspicion and an accusation of espionage, resulting in her tragic execution.
by Steven Erikson
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As rebellion's remnants cling to a cursed city, gods draw knives in a cosmic war, their celestial blood set to spill into the mortal realm and change existence.
by James Patterson
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As immaculate conceptions herald a global apocalypse, a former nun turned PI must unravel a divine conspiracy to save two virgin mothers and humanity's future from an unholy war between light and darkness.
by Dean Koontz
4.0(31,150)
Haunted by his dying grandfather's chilling prophecy of five dark days, Jimmy Tock must confront an escalating series of nightmarish events, each pushing him closer to a destiny as terrifying as it is wondrous.
by Tom Robbins
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When Jesus's mummified body appears in a roadside zoo, a clairvoyant redefines spirituality with a flea circus, and Western civilization unravels through a psychedelic lens of fertility worship and existential inquiry.