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by Janet Taylor Lisle
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In 1929 Rhode Island, two boys get caught in a deadly war between rival Prohibition gangs after finding a body and a mysterious package on the beach, leading one of them aboard the legendary smuggling ship, the Black Duck.
by Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin's 'The Arcades Project' explores how 19th-century Parisian arcades reveal the commodification of objects and the hidden 'true history' beneath the surface of bourgeois progress.
by William Gaddis
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A sixth-grader’s mail-order ambitions explode into a nationwide corporate empire of dubious deals and disaffected adults, revealing the farcical side of American business through colliding voices.
by Jill Tomlinson
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A baby barn owl named Plop is afraid of the dark. With help from friendly creatures, he faces his fear and discovers the wonders of the night.
by Kate Boehm Jerome
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Amelia Earhart, a pioneering aviator, repeatedly defied gravity and expectations, only to vanish into the Pacific, leaving behind a legacy of firsts and an enduring mystery.
by George Eliot
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Explore the quiet dramas and moral complexities of 19th-century English clergy and their parishioners, showing the humor, heartbreak, and resilience in ordinary lives.
by William Shakespeare
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A shipwrecked twin's disguise as a male page ignites a chaotic love triangle between a lovesick duke, a mourning countess, and a puritanical steward.
by Yann Martel
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Born intersex and later in a shocking accident, Self is a fantastical, gender-bending autobiography that blurs the lines of identity and reality.
by Richard Rashke
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Based on the accounts of eighteen survivors, "Escape from Sobibor" tells the story of the uprising and mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp.
by Kirsten Boie
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A girl's unexpected film role as a princess turns into a real-life mystery in a charming kingdom, where the line between script and reality blurs.
by Robert Cormier
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Fresh from juvenile detention for parricide, eighteen-year-old Eric seeks a twisted form of 'tenderness' through murder, only to find a potential mirror—or victim—in the equally damaged and searching fifteen-year-old runaway, Lori.
by Cal Armistead
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An amnesiac teen renames himself after Thoreau and travels to Walden Pond, hoping the retreat will unlock his tragic memories and reveal his identity.
by Drew Eric Whitman
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Learn Madison Avenue's psychological secrets to create ads that make people buy, whether you run a big corporation or a small shop.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This epic poem follows Hiawatha's life, exploring Native American legends, folklore, and myth. It shows the connection between indigenous cultures and the natural world, with over 400 original Remington illustrations.
by Peter Singer
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Peter Singer's "Practical Ethics" applies utilitarian principles to controversial real-world dilemmas, from animal rights to euthanasia, making readers confront the logical (and often uncomfortable) conclusions of their moral beliefs.
by Andrew Fukuda
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A hidden human survives in a vampire-ruled world by hunting his own kind, all while battling forbidden love and the threat of exposure.
by Enid Blyton
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The Secret Seven are on the case when mysterious lights and disturbed jackdaws at Torkling Castle hint at a secret lurking within its ruined tower, far more intriguing than a simple ghost story.
by Theodore Dreiser
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In a society quick to judge, Jennie Gerhardt finds love and motherhood outside of marriage, her compassion clashing with the era's strict moral code.
by Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm explores the origins of human violence, arguing against both instinctual and behavioral explanations, to show how society and psychology can turn our potential for good into destructive acts.
by Corban Addison
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A desperate family's round-the-world sailing trip collides with a Somali pirate's quest for vengeance and an FBI negotiator's past, igniting a global crisis where survival hinges on confronting buried truths.
by Kate Brian
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Haunted by a fiery past and relentless adversaries, Reed fights to resurrect her beloved boarding school from literal and metaphorical ashes, all while a sinister legacy threatens to consume her and the remaining Billings girls.
by Vera Nazarian
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On the alien world of Atlantis, an awkward Earth-nerd with a powerful voice must navigate deadly games, treacherous alliances, and an impending cosmic war to save her loved ones and two planets, all before her wedding day.
by David Lodge
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A Catholic literature graduate student struggles with the gap between academic theory and his growing family in pre-Pill London.
by Arthur Schnitzler
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Trapped by her family's financial ruin, Fräulein Else confronts the shattering cost of virtue and society's predatory gaze in a desperate bid to save her father.