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by Cynthia Voigt
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Abandoned by their mother, four siblings embark on a desperate, cross-country journey to find a place to belong, only to uncover a deeper history that reshapes their understanding of family and home.
by Laurel Snyder
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On a mysterious, idyllic island where children live in perfect harmony, a young girl named Jinny grapples with the heartbreaking tradition of a boat arriving each year to replace the eldest child with a new one, forcing her to confront her own impending departure.
by Virginia Woolf
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Katharine Hilbery, caught between tradition and modern ideas, chooses between a pragmatic poet and a passionate suitor. She faces the complexities of love, expectation, and self-discovery, shaped by the feminist ideas and literary pursuits of the women around her.
by Shannon Hale
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Princess Magnolia, a proper princess, secretly becomes the monster-fighting Princess in Black, all while hiding her double life from a nosy duchess.
by Edgar Allan Poe
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In 1930s Gaspé Peninsula, a love as deep as the sea itself fights against death, forever joining two souls.
by Napoleon Hill
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Achieve a prosperous and joyful life by using your mind to attract success and repel negativity.
by George Bernard Shaw
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A pragmatic soldier, who prefers chocolate to glory, challenges a young woman's romantic ideas about love and war during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War.
by Nigel Warburton
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Explore Western thought from Socrates' pursuit of truth to Peter Singer's modern ethics, as Nigel Warburton illuminates philosophy's most influential minds.
by Chinua Achebe
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Obi Okonkwo, a Western-educated Nigerian, struggles with bribery and the societal rules against his forbidden love, eventually giving in to the corruption he swore to fight.
by Sonya Sones
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Fifteen-year-old Ruby navigates grief, a cross-country move, and a forced reunion with her absentee, movie-star father after her mother's sudden death.
by Courtney C. Stevens
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Haunted by a summer trauma she can't voice, a closeted Alexi finds an unexpected confidant and the courage to confront her past in the equally scarred, quiet boy next door.
by Tricia Rayburn
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Haunted by her sister's mysterious cliff-diving death, a fearful teen returns to a seaside town where grinning victims of water-related accidents hint at a chilling, ancient secret that could unravel her new romance and change her life forever.
by Mordecai Richler
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In a boisterous quest to "be somebody," the amoral and hilariously scheming Duddy Kravitz hustles his way through 1940s Montreal, leaving a trail of comedic chaos and hard-won lessons in his wake.
by Frank E. Peretti
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When a planned wilderness retreat turns into a rescue mission, Reed Shelton must face a relentless entity that has taken his wife and now hunts him and his allies through the forest.
by Don DeLillo
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A reclusive defense intellectual, haunted by his role in America's war machine, confronts the vast emptiness of the desert and the lingering human mysteries of his past when a filmmaker and his enigmatic daughter disrupt his solitary retreat.
by Mark Twain
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Young Mark Twain humorously navigates the American West, finding rich experiences (if not always gold) that shape his literary voice.
by John Varley
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A deep space expedition to a mysterious moon orbiting Saturn uncovers a colossal, sentient alien being named Gaea, whose impossible interior is not just a world, but a transformative consciousness that forever alters all who dare to explore her.
by Robert Goolrick
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In the sweltering summer of 1948, a charming war veteran with a suitcase full of cash and a set of butcher knives carves a path of doomed romance and chilling mystery through a sleepy Virginia town.
by Kahlil Gibran
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A man rejects societal norms, embracing self-discovery beyond what others expect, even if it means being called mad.
by Shannon Hale
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Miri, a seasoned princess academy graduate, must transform three wild swamp sisters into refined royalty while unraveling a dangerous royal secret that threatens their very lives.
by Richelle Mead
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Rose Hathaway grapples with an impossible magic tied to her best friend, Lissa, to save her Strigoi-turned lover, Dimitri, from eternal damnation, all while he relentlessly hunts her.
by Elise Broach
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A lonely boy and a talented beetle living under his sink become unlikely friends, entangled in a thrilling art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to recover a lost masterpiece.
by Jeffrey Archer
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Jeffrey Archer's "Twelve Red Herrings" offers a collection of short stories, each with a clever twist, challenging readers to spot the misdirection before the surprising end.
by Jeet Thayil
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In 1970s Bombay, poets and pimps drift in opium dens, a city balanced between beauty and squalor, as a killer targets its invisible poor.