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by Rhonda Byrne
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Unlock daily insights into the law of attraction to manifest your dream life, designed for sharing and carrying with you.
by Gore Vidal
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A Persian diplomat in the 5th century B.C. meets Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius, and Pericles, searching for truth and understanding the nature of creation.
by Don DeLillo
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An American businessman in ancient Greece stumbles into a secretive cult that ritually murders people based on the alphabet, all while dealing with his estranged family and the unsettling power of language.
by Michael Palmer
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A disgraced medical student, a dying scientist, and a disillusioned detective are drawn into a global conspiracy rooted in ancient secrets, all connected by a single, mysterious vial of blood and the terrifying truth behind routine medical tests.
by Laurence Yep
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In 1903 San Francisco, a young Chinese immigrant boy helps his father, a laundryman, build and fly an airplane, defying poverty, prejudice, and community skepticism.
by Rabih Alameddine
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A son returns to war-scarred Beirut to be with his dying hakawati grandfather. The deathbed vigil becomes a time for recounting ancient Middle Eastern myths and personal histories, weaving together tales of love, war, and endurance across millennia.
by Timothy Zahn
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After Alderaan's destruction, Luke, Leia, and Han navigate Rebel politics, Mara Jade hunts Imperial traitors, and a stormtrooper's mutiny shapes the galaxy's fate.
by Tatyana Tolstaya
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In a post-apocalyptic Russia where mutated humans scavenge for mice and knowledge is a controlled, dangerous commodity, one man's transcription job unveils a world far more complex and perilous than his seemingly mundane existence suggests.
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Torn between her desire for an 'Aussie-blonde' life and the traditions of her Muslim family, teenager Jamie navigates a double life, trying to fit in while secretly wanting to embrace her true self and her forbidden darabuka.
by Harry Mulisch
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A celebrated author's quest to understand evil leads him to a shocking secret from Hitler's inner circle, forcing him to confront the moral weight of untold history.
by Heinrich von Kleist
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A wronged horse-dealer, failed by a corrupt 16th-century legal system, wages a bloody war for justice, blurring the lines between vigilante hero and dangerous enemy of the state.
by William Golding
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The last Neanderthals live in a changing world of strange sounds and violent newcomers, unknowingly facing the start of a new, terrifying age that will end their existence.
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
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Left behind by her owner, a feisty doll with a hickory nut head and apple-wood twig body must brave the New Hampshire winter alone, relying on her wit and the kindness of woodland creatures to survive.
by Peter D. Schiff
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This book uses illustrations and parables to explain how consumer credit and inflation create economic problems, showing that real prosperity comes from saving, producing, and investing, not from government actions.
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Four skeptical siblings are pulled into a world of strange events and ghost stories after their new stepsister, a self-proclaimed witch, moves into their old home, forcing them to wonder if the magic is hers, or if an old headless ghost has truly woken up.
by R.M. Ballantyne
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Three boys shipwrecked on a tropical island discover that paradise holds deadly secrets, from cannibal feasts to pirate raids, testing their ingenuity and courage against the South Pacific's wild beauty.
by Charles Darwin
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Darwin places humanity, with all its racial diversity and controversial origins, firmly within the animal kingdom, changing our understanding of what it means to be human.
by Natalie Babbitt
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A young messenger travels the kingdom to define 'delicious,' uncovering a civil war and the true meaning of unity.
by Oriana Fallaci
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After her lover's execution, a woman fights to immortalize him and expose a political conspiracy, showing his fight for freedom against a tyrannical government.
by John Saul
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Grieving her mother's death, a teenage girl moves to a remote Cape Cod village only to discover a terrifying supernatural legacy that will forever alter False Harbor.
by Chris Kuzneski
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When his girlfriend is abducted in a series of planned kidnappings, Jonathon Payne races to New Orleans, uncovering a violent historical secret rooted in a Southern plantation that fuels a quest for revenge.
by V. S. Naipaul
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Willie Chandran flees the empty religious life of his Indian home for the promises of London and the colonial world of Africa, only to discover that being true to oneself is an elusive, often broken, promise.
by Hesiod
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Before the Olympians, early gods fought a family war, creating the world and its divine rulers in Hesiod's ancient poem.
by Alexander Gordon Smith
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Haunted by his own monstrous transformation, Alex Sawyer must confront the tyrannical Alfred Furnace in a world where humanity is enslaved and the line between executioner and executed blurs with every desperate, world-ending choice.