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by JoLynne Valerie
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A reclusive artist, haunted by a secret past, finds her painted muse come to life in a wolf biologist, leading them on a magical Winter Solstice journey of second chances and unexpected revelations.
by Adele Griffin
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In 1860s New York, a grieving orphan haunted by her dead fiancé's doppelgänger must decipher spectral clues to unravel the mystery of his true fate and reclaim her future.
by L.A. Banks
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Ancient prophecies unfold as the Neteru team fights an unprecedented war in San Diego. Lilith's day-walking vampires multiply under a resurrected anti-Christ, threatening to plunge the world into eternal night.
by Alfred Adler
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Adler's 1927 guide explores the roots of our daily actions, helping us understand ourselves better and live more cooperatively.
by Han Nolan
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Haunted by a mystical past, a young woman named Miracle faces the fiery results of her own unreality to find her place in a world she was never taught to inhabit.
by Charles Brockden Brown
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Wieland shows the fragile minds of an early American family and the new republic, while Carwin's memoirs reveal the dark tricks behind a charismatic leader's plan.
by Lauren Kate
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To break a cursed cycle of reincarnation and tragic loss, Luce explores her past lives, reliving centuries of forbidden romance with Daniel while he desperately pursues her, fearing she might unravel their very existence.
by George MacDonald
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Gibbie, an orphaned, mute boy, lives in the Scottish Highlands. His pure heart and selfless spirit change the lives around him as he seeks to live honestly and with sacrifice.
by Dean Koontz
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A bartender's ordinary life shatters into a high-speed nightmare when he's forced to choose which innocent person dies next, making him the unwilling puppet in a psychopath's deadly game.
by William Wharton
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On Christmas Eve in the Ardennes, a small group of American soldiers in an isolated chateau find themselves in a surreal game with an enigmatic enemy, whose intentions are as mysterious as the holiday truce they seem to offer.
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A pompous civil servant is swallowed by a crocodile and continues to lecture from its belly, forcing his wife and friends to navigate absurd bureaucracy and public indifference.
by Yoru Sumino
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A solitary high school boy finds his popular classmate's secret diary and learns she has a terminal pancreatic illness, making him the only one outside her family who knows. Their lives become intertwined during her last months.
by Gautam Malkani
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In "Londonstani," Jas navigates a complex world of cultural identity, street gangs, and forbidden love, trying to define himself amid clashing expectations and the harsh realities of a divided city.
by J.J. Connolly
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A smooth-talking London cocaine dealer, aiming for early retirement, finds his exit from the criminal underworld unraveling into a deadly 'layer cake' of double-crosses, neo-Nazis, and a missing socialite, forcing him to become a hitman just to survive.
by H.E. Bates
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In WWII Occupied France, an injured English pilot and a brave French farm girl find their lives entwined by war and an unexpected love.
by Will Durant
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Durant’s "Story of Civilization" is an eleven-volume series that covers human history from ancient Mesopotamia to the Napoleonic era, detailing the rise and fall of empires, philosophies, and the evolution of art and science.
by Lee Child
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An ex-military drifter returns to his old unit's headquarters to meet a captivating voice, only to be charged with a 16-year-old murder and forcibly reinstated into the army. His nostalgic visit quickly becomes a fight for freedom and survival.
by Caroline Miller
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In the unforgiving antebellum Georgia wilderness, a tenacious young woman named Cean carves out a life of love and loss, enduring fourteen births, five burials, and the relentless brutality of nature and history itself.
by Christopher Paul Curtis
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In 1901 Michigan, the unlikely friendship between a Black boy and a white boy from neighboring towns blossoms as they uncover the truth behind the mysterious 'Madman of Piney Woods' haunting their shared forest.
by Andrew Hussie
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Four internet friends play a game that creates universes, then must navigate a chaotic adventure through time, space, and meme-fueled paradoxes to save reality.
by Freya North
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A determined sports journalist, known only as Cat, cycles through the French countryside with the Tour de France, hoping to outrun the ghost of a past love and pedal her way to professional triumph.
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Alice wants to set up her father with her favorite teacher, but she learns that loving two people at once is a confusing reality when her own long-term relationship is challenged by a new boy.
by Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope's poetic essay explores the universe's order and humanity's place, urging readers to use reason and accept that 'whatever is, is right.'
by Erin Bowman
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A routine rescue mission to a desolate mining planet turns into a horrifying fight for survival when a skeleton crew unearths a parasitic alien horror that can reanimate the dead and rewrite human minds.