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  1. Whirligig

    Paul Fleischman

    ★ 3.4 (8k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Haunted by a tragic mistake, a teenage boy embarks on a cross-country odyssey, building whimsical whirligigs that anonymously mend the broken spirits of strangers in his wake.

  2. A Step from Heaven

    An Na

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A Step from Heaven tells Young Ju's story, from a Korean child's dream of America as paradise to the harsh realities of immigrant life, where she faces cultural clashes and family struggles on her path to self-discovery.

  3. Five on a Hike Together

    Enid Blyton

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When a mysterious flashing light appears at Dick's window, the Famous Five begin a quest to decode an urgent message and uncover a dangerous secret hidden in the hills.

  4. The Enchanted Castle

    E. Nesbit

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Three siblings discover that a pretend princess and a magical ring can transform an ordinary castle into a realm of genuine enchantment and unexpected adventure.

  5. Starry River of the Sky

    Grace Lin

    ★ 4.1 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a village where the moon is gone and strange things happen, a runaway chore boy finds that a mysterious traveler's stories, and his own past, hold the key to every puzzle.

  6. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    Craig Davidson

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In 1980s Niagara Falls, a misfit twelve-year-old and his eccentric uncle uncover bittersweet truths about memory and the spectral past while investigating local ghost stories with a new group of friends.

  7. The Wapshot Chronicle

    John Cheever

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    The Wapshot brothers leave their New England fishing village for the wider world, dealing with modern life's absurdities, their family's odd legacy, and the search for belonging, while their father fights a cousin for the family fortune.

  8. Five Are Together Again

    Enid Blyton

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    The Famous Five trade their camping trip for a hunt when a scientist's research papers vanish, pulling them into a theft and motive puzzle.

  9. The Iceman Cometh

    Eugene O'Neill

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In a desolate bar, a group of alcoholics confront their illusions when a traveling salesman arrives, intent on shattering their last vestiges of hope.

  10. Swarm

    B.V. Larson

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Abducted and thrust into a brutal alien testing ground, Kyle Riggs must survive increasingly deadly trials to discover humanity's terrifying new place in a galaxy ruled by an empire that considers Earth a mere backwater.

  11. Dark Fire

    Christine Feehan

    ★ 4.1 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A woman with unique gifts enters a dangerous world with a mysterious man whose kiss offers both belonging and peril, as she searches for a mistress of the light.

  12. Math Curse

    Jon Scieszka

    ★ 4.2 (8k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A young girl's ordinary day transforms into an hilariously perplexing mathematical gauntlet, forcing her to outwit a relentless 'Math Curse' before she's completely divided, subtracted, and multiplied into a muddle.

  13. Beautiful Broken Things

    Sara Barnard

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Shy Caddy wants her best friend Rosie's confidence. When Suzanne arrives, she pulls Caddy into a thrilling, dangerous world where friendship, love, and self-destruction merge.

  14. The World to Come

    Dara Horn

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A stolen Chagall painting helps a former child prodigy uncover his family's story, from Soviet orphanages to suburban New Jersey, as he connects with art, memory, and his past.

  15. Only Daughter

    Anna Snoekstra

    ★ 3.7 (8k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An imposter assumes the identity of a girl who vanished a decade ago, only to discover the perfect family she's infiltrated harbors dark secrets and the true abductor might still be lurking.

  16. Collateral

    Callie Hart

    ★ 4.5 (8k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In the explosive conclusion to Zeth and Sloane's saga, a missing daughter ignites a desperate race against cartels and corrupt agents, forcing them to confront their deepest fears and the true meaning of family amidst a hail of bullets and buried secrets.

  17. Across the River and into the Trees

    Ernest Hemingway

    ★ 3.3 (8k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A World War II colonel, scarred by war, finds a final love with a young Italian countess in Venice, confronting his past with the resilience of the human spirit.

  18. What to Listen for in Music

    Aaron Copland

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Copland's guide helps listeners understand musical structure and emotion, turning passive listening into an active experience.

  19. Deception

    C.J. Redwine

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Amidst a ravaged world and the looming threat of an unknown saboteur, Rachel and Logan must fight to keep their love, their people, and their hope for freedom alive as they flee into the treacherous Wasteland.

  20. A Place of Greater Safety

    Hilary Mantel

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Under the guillotine's shadow and the revolution's fervor, three men—Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins—navigate love, betrayal, and the bloody birth of a new France.

  21. The Raven

    Edgar Allan Poe

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A grieving scholar's fall into madness is shown through Gustave Doré's haunting, dreamlike engravings as he faces a prophetic raven and the sorrow of a lost love.

  22. Bones of Faerie

    Janni Lee Simner

    ★ 3.6 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After a devastating war with Faerie, a 15-year-old girl discovers she has forbidden magic, forcing her to journey into the heart of Faerie to heal two broken worlds.

  23. Waterland

    Graham Swift

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In the desolate East Anglian Fens, a history teacher's meandering narrative of eels, incest, madness, and murder unravels his family's tormented legacy and the relentless, cyclical nature of history itself.

  24. The Psychology of Time Travel

    Kate Mascarenhas

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When a newspaper clipping from the future hints at her grandmother's murder, Ruby Rebello must navigate a fractured timeline and the hidden history of the world's first female time-travel pioneers to prevent a tragedy that hasn't even happened yet.

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