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by V.E. Schwab
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Cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets, Addie LaRue navigates three centuries of art and history, a ghost in her own life, until a chance encounter in a hidden bookstore finally offers the one thing she’s always longed for: to be remembered.
by Michel Houellebecq
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Between overindulgence and fanaticism, a Parisian bureaucrat finds brief, erotic joy in Thailand, only for it to end in a cultural clash.
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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In a series of letters, an aging copywriter and a young seamstress navigate the quiet desperation and dignity of their shared poverty, their chaste love a fragile light against a world that diminishes them.
by Joan Didion
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Joan Didion's "The White Album" looks at America's fractured mood in the late 1960s and 70s. It uses sharp, often unsettling stories to capture the era's mix of hope, fear, and cultural change, all set against California's bright but shadowed landscape.
by Tim O'Brien
3.8(16,972)
A Vietnam veteran, haunted by jungle horrors and political ruin, faces his wife's disappearance from their remote lakeside cabin, where dark currents from the past threaten to consume them.
by Julia Donaldson
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A kind witch shares her broom with more and more animals, leading to a crowded flight, a broken broom, and an adventure where her new friends save her from a dragon.
by Simms Taback
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Joseph cleverly turns his worn overcoat into a series of new items, proving that even old things hold many possibilities.
by Richard Ford
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On an Easter weekend of unexpected turns, a divorced sportswriter, struggling with his career and the loss of his son, lets go of his past to face an uncertain but hopeful future.
by Michael Dorris
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Three generations of Native American women—Rayona, Christine, and Ida—share their stories in reverse chronological order, revealing a history of love, secrets, and family ties.
by Clarice Lispector
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A metropolitan writer confronts the unsettling freedom of a starving, unloved typist from Rio's slums, forcing a re-evaluation of misery, identity, and storytelling itself.
by Richard Rhodes
4.4(16,926)
This book traces the twenty-five year journey from abstract atomic theory to the reality of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb, which changed human history.
by Kahlil Gibran
3.9(16,912)
In Beirut, a young poet's first love for Selma Karamy is tragically crushed by tradition and forced marriage, leaving a poignant echo of what could have been and a meditation on human suffering.
by Jack London
4.0(16,889)
In the unforgiving Yukon, a lone prospector battles the brutal cold and his own hubris, learning too late that nature's power far exceeds human will.
by David Yoon
3.8(16,889)
A Korean-American high school senior fakes a relationship to win freedom, but finds real connection and self-acceptance instead.
by Alistair MacLean
4.0(16,867)
Beneath the crushing silence of the Arctic ice, an atomic submarine races to rescue the survivors of a ravaged weather station, only to discover the true enemy is a saboteur lurking among them, ready to kill again.
by Abbi Glines
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A pragmatic teen, burdened by her mother's irresponsibility, finds her world upended when she takes a summer job as a domestic servant for a reclusive rock star, igniting an unexpected romance that challenges both their preconceived notions of love and duty.
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Doris Kearns Goodwin tells a personal and historical story about the 1960s, using her late husband Richard's archives to show their shared love and their dedication to American history.
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the utopian city of Omelas, perpetual joy is bought by the perpetual suffering of one child, forcing its citizens to choose between complicity and a solitary walk into the unknown.
by John Locke
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This revised edition explores John Locke's foundational arguments for legitimate government and individual rights, updated with recent scholarship on his influential ideas.
by Rebecca Roanhorse
4.0(16,786)
In a drowned world where Navajo legends walk the earth, a jaded monster hunter must confront ancient evils and her own past to save a missing girl from a terror far greater than she imagined.
by Jim Bouton
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Pitcher Jim Bouton exposes the hidden world of 1960s baseball with a rebellious spirit and a keen eye for the absurd, revealing the hilarious, heartbreaking, and human lives of the men behind America's pastime, changing how we view sports heroes.
by Sandie Jones
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A wife's perfect world unravels when her husband's suspicious behavior forces her to question if her closest confidante is actually her biggest betrayer.
by William Nicholson
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In a city obsessed with work and social climbing, three children defy a tyrannical system to seek a mythical instrument, the Wind Singer, hoping its ancient voice can free their people from a dreamless life guarded by a monstrous entity and its army of perfect killing machines.
by James Patterson
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With the ability to create anything he imagines, Daniel X hunts deadly aliens across the universe to avenge his parents' murder and protect Earth.