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by G.K. Chesterton
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In a future London held back by rules, a new King starts a medieval revival, leading one man to defend Notting Hill with his own army, turning the city into a battleground.
by Nadeem Aslam
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In an English town, two lovers disappear, uncovering a family's strict traditions and the painful clash between faith and forbidden desire.
by Lois Duncan
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When a school fair's fortune-telling act grants 17-year-old Sarah actual prophetic visions, she finds herself terrifyingly re-enacting the Salem witch trials with her classmates as accusers.
by Ferdinand de Saussure
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Saussure's posthumous work revealed language's hidden structure, breaking from historical linguistics and starting structuralism, which changed how we understand signs, systems, and meaning.
by William S. Burroughs
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In a universe where psychic parasites prey on humanity, Inspector Lee of the Nova Police must dismantle the reality-warping word machine of the Nova Criminals before they unleash ultimate destruction.
by Robin Lee Graham
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A 16-year-old sails solo around the world in a 24-foot sloop, finding love, fatherhood, and self-discovery over five years and 33,000 miles of ocean.
by Khushwant Singh
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Through the eyes of an aging man and his hijra lover, Khushwant Singh's "Delhi" shows centuries of a city's history, filled with sultans, saints, and seduction.
by Young
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Four years after a tragic incident separated them, an ordinary Indiana girl studying abroad in Edinburgh unexpectedly reunites with the extraordinary boy who once pulled her into the deep, forcing them to confront their past and the dangerous spark that still exists between them.
by Catherine Mann
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A haunted pararescueman, seeking oblivion in high-stakes missions, finds his greatest danger and unexpected healing in the independent woman he's compelled to rescue.
by Irene Hunt
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An abused young boy, escaping into a secret world of rose gardens, learns to give and receive love when a small rosebush and a new home help him blossom.
by John Banville
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An unmasked Cambridge spy, an art expert to the Queen, faces his past, revealing a life of deception and desire. He betrayed his country, family, and himself, searching for the truth of his downfall.
by Alison Pick
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As Nazi propaganda consumes Czechoslovakia, a Jewish family's fight for survival hinges on the loyalty of their governess, whose own secret affair with a betrayer threatens to unravel their last hope.
by Ross Welford
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A boy with a vintage time machine and a hamster named Alan Shearer travels to the 1980s to save his father, even if it means changing history.
by Richard Powers
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Three mixed-race siblings, raised with music and a dream of transcending identity, find their lives separating as one becomes an activist, another faces racial stereotypes in opera, and the third tries to hold their fractured family together.
by Isak Dinesen
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Dinesen's debut collection blends aristocratic boredom with the macabre, telling stories of doomed romance, supernatural events, and deep psychological insight, all in a 19th-century Gothic style.
by Bentley Little
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A luxurious desert spa becomes a nightmarish trap where disappearing guests and monstrous entities in the pool are just part of the 'relaxation' package.
by Pat Walsh
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In 1347, an orphan apprentice monk uncovers a buried angel, a talking goblin, and a dangerous world of Old Magic, all while two cloaked strangers hunt for answers within the abbey walls.
by Mona Simpson
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A fiercely independent mother and her observant daughter chase the elusive American dream from rural Wisconsin to the glitz of Los Angeles, leaving a trail of unpaid bills and unspoken resentments in their wake.
by Young
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A troubled teen fights to protect her disabled brother and keep her fragile world from shattering, finding unexpected comfort in a boy with his own problems, all while battling forces threatening to tear her family apart.
by Karen Connelly
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Imprisoned for protest songs, a Burmese dissident spends seven years in solitary confinement. He uses Buddhist patience to connect with his jailers and forms a freeing friendship with a young orphan within the brutal prison walls.
by Thomas Mann
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In a chilling Italian seaside spectacle, the sinister magician Cipolla ensnares his audience, mirroring the seductive and coercive rise of fascism in Europe.
by Larry Brown
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In rural Mississippi, an ex-con and a homeless teenager form an unlikely bond, navigating a violent path toward possible redemption or ruin.
by Jody Gehrman
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Three best friends navigate rivalries and mistaken identities at a coffee shop, learning that their friendship is stronger than any romantic chaos.
by William Morris
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A Victorian man awakens in a future England that is an idyllic, moneyless, and government-free socialist utopia, where art and nature blend with daily life.