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  1. To Catch a Pirate

    Jade Parker

    ★ 3.8 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A year after a pirate steals her family's treasure and her first kiss, a determined noblewoman hunts him across the seas, only to find herself in danger of losing her heart to the very rogue she vowed to capture.

  2. Nancy Drew 26: The Clue of the Leaning Chimney

    Carolyn Keene

    ★ 3.9 (7k) average on Goodreads
  3. A Land Remembered

    Patrick D. Smith

    ★ 4.4 (7k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    From the Florida frontier of 1858 to the exploited land of 1968, three generations of the MacIvey family climb from poverty to real estate wealth, only to face the cost of their own ambition.

  4. The Black Prince

    Iris Murdoch

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A middle-aged writer's memoir reveals a life stifled by artistic failure, bad relationships, and self-delusion, as he fights for love, truth, and meaning.

  5. Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

    Anne Rice

    ★ 3.8 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a battle for his soul, the vampire Lestat must come to terms with an ancient spirit possessing him, uncovering the secrets of a lost Atlantean empire whose power now threatens all vampires.

  6. Someday

    Karen Kingsbury

    ★ 4.4 (7k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Dayne and Katy's celebrity romance struggles amidst rumors and separate film projects. The Flanigans fight to save their Christian Kids Theater, and John Baxter considers selling the family home. The Baxter family's love is tested to secure a hopeful 'someday.'

  7. Flygirl

    Sherri L. Smith

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1940s America, a skilled Black pilot, determined to fly for her country, makes the choice to pass as white to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots, forcing her to confront the cost of chasing her dreams during war and prejudice.

  8. The Blazing World

    Siri Hustvedt

    ★ 3.7 (7k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    After years of artistic invisibility, a female artist stages a provocative experiment, creating three male alter egos to expose the art world's biases, only to become entangled in a dangerous psychological game with a celebrated artist that ends in his bizarre death.

  9. Of Bees and Mist

    Erick Setiawan

    ★ 3.8 (7k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a town where spirits mingle with everyday life, a young bride named Meridia uncovers generations of dark magic and hidden truths within her new family, forcing her to confront her own past and the secrets that bind them all.

  10. Saving Wishes

    G.J. Walker-Smith

    ★ 4.2 (7k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Seventeen-year-old Charli, desperate to escape her small-town reputation and travel the world, finds her plans upended by a New Yorker, leading her to question if fate has a different journey in store.

  11. Star of the Sea

    Joseph O'Connor

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1847, a famine-stricken Ireland leads to a transatlantic journey on the Star of the Sea. Desperate refugees, a maid with a secret, a bankrupt lord, and a killer converge in a tale of tragedy, love, and a past that lingers.

  12. The Secret of the Old Mill

    Franklin W. Dixon

    ★ 3.9 (7k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Trapped in an old mill, Frank and Joe Hardy untangle a local counterfeiting ring and a national security secret their detective father is pursuing.

  13. Fair and Tender Ladies

    Lee Smith

    ★ 4.2 (7k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Through decades of Appalachian hardship and judgment, a woman's spirit and letters turn a life of perceived betrayal and toil into a story of lasting hope and the quiet power of the written word.

  14. A Pair of Blue Eyes

    Thomas Hardy

    ★ 3.8 (7k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a remote Cornish parish, a spirited rector's daughter is torn between a young architect and an older literary man, reflecting the author's own struggle between his established career and the call of literature.

  15. The Birchbark House

    Louise Erdrich

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Journey through 1847 with spirited Ojibwa girl Omakayas as she navigates the daily rhythms of family, nature, and the looming shadow of smallpox on Lake Superior's Madeline Island.

  16. Side Effects

    Woody Allen

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' follows a man who uses a time machine to date Emma Bovary and a burglar's philosophical thoughts, offering a funny, anxious look at modern life.

  17. The Plague Dogs

    Richard Adams

    ★ 3.9 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Two experimental dogs, scarred by human cruelty, escape into the wilderness with a fox, only to become targets of a massive hunt fueled by fear, misunderstanding, and the specter of the bubonic plague.

  18. May Bird and the Ever After

    Jodi Lynn Anderson

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Armed with only her wits and a loyal cat, an eccentric girl who feels most at home in the swamp tumbles into the spectral Ever After, a haunting land of ghosts and dangers, desperately seeking a way back to the living.

  19. Ravensong

    T.J. Klune

    ★ 4.5 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by past betrayals and the lingering song of a love he tries to deny, a scarred witch must confront the rising darkness within his chosen pack before it shatters the fragile peace of Green Creek and the bonds he desperately fights to maintain.

  20. I Married a Communist

    Philip Roth

    ★ 3.8 (7k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    From the gritty streets of 1930s Newark to the glittering heights of 1940s radio stardom, a passionate idealist's life unravels in the McCarthy era, his public downfall ignited by the private betrayals of a marriage consumed by political paranoia and personal vengeance.

  21. Each Little Bird that Sings

    Deborah Wiles

    ★ 4.1 (7k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    For ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger, who's attended 247 funerals at her family's funeral home, navigating the quirks of her Southern relatives and a sudden best-friend fallout proves that even an expert in loss still has much to learn about life's most surprising departures.

  22. Early Autumn

    Robert B. Parker

    ★ 4.1 (7k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a bitter divorce escalates into a father's violent abduction of his son, Spenser is hired to retrieve the boy, only to find himself on a dangerous mission in the Maine woods to protect the child and outwit ruthless adversaries.

  23. Dark of the Moon

    Rachel Hawthorne

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Desperate to become the wolf she needs to be for the boy she loves and the pack she yearns to join, a powerless girl risks everything, including the very Shifters she hopes to impress.

  24. A Thousand Brains

    Jeff Hawkins

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsScience

    Jeff Hawkins presents a theory that the brain models the world using hundreds of thousands of individual, map-like structures, changing our understanding of intelligence and AI.

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