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by Henry Adams
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Haunted by the gap between his 19th-century Brahmin upbringing and the dizzying, fragmented start of the 20th, Henry Adams explores his own intellectual obsolescence and an education that left him unprepared for the modern world.
by Hannah Moskowitz
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On a remote island, Rudy falls for a mysterious boy with violent secrets, forcing him to choose between a forbidden love and his dying brother's life.
by Anna Seghers
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Seven crosses stand in a Nazi concentration camp. A man's desperate escape through Germany exposes the choices ordinary people made under Hitler's terrifying regime.
by Lurlene McDaniel
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An 18-year-old with an inoperable brain tumor finds forbidden love with a charming race car driver battling cystic fibrosis, only to face a heart-wrenching decision when his condition takes a turn for the worse after a devastating accident.
by John Katzenbach
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A college professor's rational world shatters when his daughter becomes ensnared by a possessive stalker, forcing her estranged parents into a desperate, no-holds-barred war to reclaim her life from the predator's grasp.
by Irwin Shaw
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Through the lives of a Nazi, an American, and a Jewish newlywed, "The Young Lions" shows the human experience of World War II.
by Richard Harvell
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A castrated opera singer, haunted by the secret of his son's parentage, narrates his extraordinary life from a Swiss belfry to the grand stages of Europe, where his divine voice is both his salvation and his curse.
by Marguerite Duras
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Haunted by the public loss of her fiancé years ago, a beautiful woman orchestrates and spies on an affair between her friend and a lover, seeking to reclaim or re-enact her own forgotten pain through their stolen moments.
by Cathy Marie Hake
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An illiterate cook with an unusual way of speaking turns a widower's farm upside down and wins his heart, even as a past threat puts their new peace in danger.
by Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf uses three requests for money to explore women's freedom, patriarchy, and the causes of war.
by Lynn Weingarten
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Two years after her sister vanishes, a mysterious drawing leads Ellie on a cross-country road trip with her new crush, uncovering lies, love, and the truth behind Nina's disappearance.
by Robert Cormier
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In a political terrorism game, radical teens kidnap children, forcing the general's son into a mission where the line between hero and villain blurs, and every choice leads closer to a tragic death.
by Jill Kargman
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A suburban mom enters the competitive world of Manhattan's elite mothers, where toddlers are groomed for Ivy League success before they can walk.
by Alexei Panshin
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On a starship where adulthood is earned through a brutal month of solitary survival on a dangerous alien planet, young Mia must face the wilderness and the difficult truths about her society and herself.
by Joseph Conrad
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A reclusive idealist's quest for detached peace on a remote island shatters when his rescue of a vulnerable woman from a predatory world inadvertently summons a maelstrom of human evil and forces him to confront the very emotions he sought to escape.
by Kiera Cass
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Before the iconic Selection, an ordinary girl named Amberly navigates the treacherous currents of palace intrigue and romantic rivalry to win a prince's heart and become a beloved queen.
by Peter Carey
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A disgraced Australian artist, caught in a web of forgery and a volatile romance, faces the true cost of creation and the redemptive power of love as he travels from rural Australia to urban galleries worldwide.
by Dario Fo
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A madcap imposter infiltrates a police station, twisting the absurd truth of an anarchist's suspicious 'fall' into a hilarious, biting indictment of state corruption.
by Laura Wiess
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Two teenage girls, discarded as 'leftovers,' form an unbreakable bond and seek revenge against the society that failed them.
by Anna Hackett
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An abducted Earth marine must fight for survival and her friend's freedom in a brutal alien gladiator arena, forging a dangerous alliance with a tattooed champion driven by revenge against the very aliens who hold them captive.
by Colum McCann
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An African American sandhog's dangerous work connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan beneath the East River creates a multi-generational family story of connection and conflict, uniting diverse men in shared peril.
by Mary Pope Osborne
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In a haunted New Orleans, Jack and Annie discover the soulful birth of jazz with a young Louis Armstrong, all while trying to inspire artists and escape the city's spectral residents.
by David Dalglish
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Bound by a prophet's dark will and an impossible love, a half-orc warrior must choose between his brother, his adopted human allies, and the elven woman who awakened his humanity, knowing any path leads to an unbearable sacrifice amidst a war of races.
by Karen Rose
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A homicide detective with PTSD must confront his fears and the city's dark secrets to protect the woman he loves and her vulnerable clients from a relentless killer.