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by George Dawson
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George Dawson's 'Life Is So Good' tells the inspiring story of a man, the grandson of a slave, who learned to read at 98, offering a firsthand look at a century of American history and showing how to find beauty and progress even in hardship.
by Charles F. Haanel
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Master universal laws of thought, attraction, and creative power to achieve personal success and joy.
by Megan McDonald
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Armed with a mood ring and a flair for the dramatic, Judy Moody makes outrageous predictions, leaving her friends and family to wonder if her premonitions are real or just another one of her unforgettable moods.
by Cecily von Ziegesar
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At Waverly Academy, two roommates navigate a love triangle with the same boy, while a club's secrets threaten to ignite a rivalry for the 'It Girl' title.
by Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury's collection of seventeen stories takes readers from the dawn of time to the distant future, where rockets fly and people face both wonder and the strange.
by John Muir
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John Muir, as a young naturalist and sheep herder, discovers the Sierra Nevada's beauty, changing his life and inspiring a nation to explore Yosemite.
by Carolyn Keene
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Nancy Drew must decipher a faded photograph and a queen's secret heirloom to unmask an imposter and reunite a royal family, all while navigating perilous encounters in River Heights.
by Eugene O'Neill
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After the American Civil War, the Mannon family unravels in a chilling echo of ancient Greek tragedy, consumed by adultery, murder, and incestuous love that twists their Puritanical facade into a grotesque mask of doom.
by Elizabeth George Speare
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Swept from her New Hampshire home by an Indian raid in 1754, Miriam endures a harrowing march through the wilderness, only to find an unexpected world of intrigue and surprising choices awaiting her in French Montreal, far from her beloved and all she once knew.
by Ian McEwan
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A quiet ten-year-old boy's vivid imagination transports him into a bizarre and disturbing dream world where he swaps bodies with cats and babies, and makes his family disappear with vanishing cream.
by Shirley Jackson
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The master of literary macabre, Shirley Jackson, hilariously turns her sharp, unsentimental wit on the domestic chaos of raising four children and countless books in a boisterous Vermont farmhouse.
by David Baldacci
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When his treasonous brother escapes a military super-prison, investigator John Puller must navigate a nationwide manhunt, government secrets, and a deceptive partner to learn the truth behind his brother's conviction before others silence him.
by Derek Landy
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A runaway teenager gets caught in a nihilistic punk-sorcerer plot to detonate a doomsday device, forcing the witty skeleton detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his powerful teenage partner Valkyrie Cain to save him and the world.
by Deb Caletti
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A teenage girl, haunted by a past trauma, runs cross-country from Seattle to D.C., hoping movement will help her outrun grief, guilt, and the media attention that turns her journey into an unexpected act of activism.
by E.E. Holmes
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Haunted by her mother's death and the ghosts at her new college, Jess Ballard must work with a professor to uncover an old secret before the dead pull her into their world for good.
by David Lodge
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Academics chase prestige, love, and literary theories through a satirical world of international conferences, uncovering the absurdities of their pursuits.
by Mal Peet
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A contemporary girl uncovers her grandfather's coded past, revealing a harrowing tale of wartime love, espionage, and betrayal in Nazi-occupied Holland that connects her to a legacy of secrets.
by Jack London
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Sixty years after a plague reclaims the world, an old man, the last link to a forgotten civilization, tries to tell his savage, ignorant descendants about the past.
by Mark Childress
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In 1965 Alabama, a woman escapes her abusive husband for Hollywood stardom with his severed head in a hatbox, while her nephew navigates racial injustice and murder in their small, seething town.
by Robert A. Heinlein
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A lonely, time-traveling barkeep recounts the mind-bending tale of how he became his own mother, father, and child, all while ensuring his own paradoxical existence.
by Jean Genet
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From a prison cell, Jean Genet writes a lush, defiant story of memory and desire, turning his past into a sacred tale of pimps, murderers, and drag queens.
by Buchi Emecheta
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In colonial Nigeria, Nnu Ego's devotion to motherhood becomes a heartbreaking journey of sacrifice, leaving her isolated and unfulfilled despite her large family.
by Chloe Neill
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In a supernatural New Orleans where magic users are ghettoized, a secretly powerful human and a cynical paranormal enforcer must unite their volatile abilities to mend a fracturing magical Veil before the city is consumed by chaos.
by Octavia E. Butler
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