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by Blake Nelson
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In teen rehab, Madeline finds forbidden love with Stewart, but their shared struggles threaten to consume them both as they pursue sobriety in the outside world.
by Rollo May
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Rollo May argues that embracing the anxiety of creation, and courageously engaging our imagination, is essential for a fully realized human existence.
by Ferdinand Oyono
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Through the eyes of a young Cameroonian houseboy, Ferdinand Oyono exposes the brutal absurdities and soul-crushing hypocrisies of French colonialism, revealing how 'civilizing' missions strip away identity while failing to deliver on their promises of progress.
by Gilbert Adair
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In the midst of Paris's 1968 upheaval, three film lovers withdraw into a self-made world of obsessive games and growing intimacy, only to have their sealed reality shattered by the encroaching outside world.
by Jon Krakauer
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A privileged young man, eager to escape society, heads into the Alaskan wilderness, only to find that his radical pursuit of freedom comes at a high cost.
by Sharon Creech
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On a perilous sea voyage to England, cousins Sophie and Cody navigate the unpredictable ocean and their family's shadowed past through journal entries, each searching for their own place in a world as vast and mysterious as the sea itself.
by Richard Ellmann
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Ellmann explores James Joyce's genius, showing his great intellect and human flaws, from writing 'Ulysses' to drunken stumbles and scandalous letters.
by Richard Bradford
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In 1944 New Mexico, a young boy grows up during WWII, learning about family, friendship, and independence under an amber sky.
by Frances Hardinge
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In a land where prophets are revered and the dead are hunted for their ashes, a quiet attendant must unravel her sister's carefully constructed lies to expose a deadly island-wide conspiracy before it consumes them both.
by Marianne Wiggins
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A photographer's belief in science is shattered as America pursues nuclear power, from bioluminescence to the atomic bomb.
by Jerome K. Jerome
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An 'idle fellow' charmingly admits his book offers only humorous, purposeless relief from 'improving' literature.
by John Bunyan
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John Bunyan recounts his difficult journey to salvation, moving from spiritual agony and doubt to God's grace.
by Nicole Reed
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Torn between her enduring love for her best friend and the intoxicating allure of his arrogant counterpart, a successful businesswoman risks her carefully constructed life to pursue a forbidden fantasy of having both men.
by Larry Brown
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In the sweltering 1968 American South, a recently paroled killer's return unleashes violence and long-buried family secrets, forcing an upright sheriff to confront the evil threatening to consume their community.
by S.D. Smith
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Two brave rabbits, Heather and Picket, must ignite a rebellion deep within enemy territory, battling the shadow of Morbin to spark an uprising for all rabbitkind.
by Kate Thompson
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A young boy's quest to find time for his mother leads him to a hidden realm where he must confront a temporal leak and his family's secrets, all while a mysterious new policeman watches.
by Melanie Rawn
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A young artist must confront his family's darkest secret when a master Grijalva warps their powerful gift for selfish, destructive ambition.
by Ursula Vernon
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A polite, pint-sized witch named Molly must convince a skeptical castle full of quirky minions she's wicked enough to save their home from decommissioning, all while hiding a secret that could unravel everything.
by Tracy Lynn
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An honors student secretly runs a complex drug-dealing network, acting as therapist and pharmacist to her peers, while struggling to control her own increasingly frantic high school life.
by Anne Rice
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In Edwardian London, the immortal Ramses the Damned, desperate for his lost queen Cleopatra, finds his longing threatening his new companion, Julie Stratford, and risking ancient dangers on the modern world.
by Barbara Dee
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Seventh-grader Mila navigates the confusing and uncomfortable world of unwanted male attention, discovering her voice and the power of allies when 'flirting' crosses the line into harassment.
by Sam J. Miller
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A bullied gay teen believes his eating disorder gives him superpowers as he starves himself to find out what happened to his sister.
by Alexander Key
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A telepathic boy, fallen through a forgotten door from another world, must outwit the suspicious adults of rural Earth and find his way home before the army captures him and endangers the only family who ever cared.
by Cylin Bus
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A paralyzed high school senior falls for the mysterious girl in the next hospital room who can read his mind and shares his terrifying nightmares. He then discovers her identity is more shocking than he could imagine.