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  1. The Graduation of Jake Moon

    Barbara Park

    ★ 4.0 (748) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Jake Moon deals with the confusing and often embarrassing changes in his grandfather Skelly, who has Alzheimer's, learning to care for and love the man he once knew in a new way.

  2. Septimus Heap

    Angie Sage

    ★ 4.1 (748) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, must navigate a world of powerful magic, dark plots, and his extraordinary destiny in a saga of wizardry and adventure.

  3. Kari

    Amruta Patil

    ★ 3.8 (746) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Haunted by a shared past and a friend lost to the void, Kari navigates the surreal, sewage-laced underbelly of Smog City as an ad copywriter and PVC-clad sewer superhero, observing life's absurdities and longing for her absentee other.

  4. The Miracle

    Irving Wallace

    ★ 3.6 (743) average on GoodreadsThriller

    At Lourdes, a skeptical journalist, a desperate young woman, a reluctant celebrity, and a dying American converge during the Virgin Mary's promised miracle cure, each with their own hopes and secrets, on a collision course with a truth more complex than divine intervention or simple fraud.

  5. Sink or Swim

    Kate Cann

    ★ 3.6 (738) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A young girl is torn between the comfort of friendship and the pain of unrequited love, realizing her 'friend' was once her lover, leaving her in emotional turmoil.

  6. Beauty

    Sheri S. Tepper

    ★ 3.6 (736) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A cursed young woman's journey through time and enchanted realms reveals that true beauty holds the magic essential for humanity's survival.

  7. Indian Summer

    Marcia Willett

    ★ 3.8 (731) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In a quiet Devon village, a woman's annual retreat turns into a storm of rekindled love, old secrets, and a painful reckoning with a past that threatens to unravel the lives of everyone she holds dear.

  8. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    Cameron Crowe

    ★ 4.0 (731) average on GoodreadsBiography

    A 22-year-old journalist goes undercover as a high school student, chronicling the daily lives of horny, wasted, and directionless teens in 1979 Southern California.

  9. The Dark Wild

    Piers Torday

    ★ 4.2 (731) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Beneath a shimmering city, a hidden world of animals plots an uprising, and only the boy who once saved them can now prevent an all-out war against humanity.

  10. What Comes After

    Steve Watkins

    ★ 4.0 (731) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After her father's death, a vegetarian teen finds solace and the strength to confront her abusive aunt through the animals she loves, ultimately freeing herself and a pair of goats from a harsh North Carolina farm.

  11. All Alone in the Universe

    Lynne Rae Perkins

    ★ 3.7 (728) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When her lifelong best friend suddenly pulls away, seventh-grader Debbie deals with junior high loneliness and finds unexpected strength and small joys.

  12. Sally

    Freya North

    ★ 3.6 (722) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A polite primary school teacher secretly plans to become a femme fatale and attract a confirmed bachelor architect, leading to a funny and touching journey of self-discovery.

  13. Jaguar

    Roland Smith

    ★ 3.9 (720) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the Amazon, a young boy uncovers a poaching operation, risking everything to protect the rainforest's jaguars and solve the mystery of his father's past.

  14. Revenant

    Kat Richardson

    ★ 4.0 (719) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After dying and returning as a Greywalker, PI Harper Blaine must race across Europe with her lover to stop a necromantic cult and her lover's father from unleashing an ancient horror that threatens to ignite a global war.

  15. Jesus and the Gospels

    Craig L. Blomberg

    ★ 4.2 (714) average on GoodreadsReference

    This book surveys the eyewitness accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, reconstructing the life and ministry of Jesus with historical and theological depth.

  16. Rat Bohemia

    Sarah Schulman

    ★ 3.8 (713) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In 1990s New York City, a rat exterminator, a plant-waterer, and an HIV-positive writer form a queer family, facing societal indifference and loss with honesty and wit.

  17. The Cloud of Unknowing

    Thomas H. Cook

    ★ 3.5 (713) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A man’s life unravels as his brilliant sister, consumed by grief and a Gaia-inspired delusion, implicates her husband in their schizophrenic son’s drowning, forcing him to confront the dark legacy of their family’s mental illness and the terrifying possibility of murder.

  18. Stranded

    J.C. Valentine

    ★ 3.6 (712) average on GoodreadsRomance

    When a cynical bachelor's shortcut leads him into a ditch and the arms of a newly divorced woman, a stormy night ignites a passion that threatens to unravel their carefully constructed walls.

  19. Stranger

    Zoe Archer

    ★ 3.7 (712) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A determined journalist and a brilliant inventor of magical gadgets must overcome their clashing worlds and growing attraction to save the planet from arcane conspiracies in 1920s Chicago.

  20. Wasted

    Mark Johnson

    ★ 4.1 (709) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    From a childhood of brutal beatings and early addiction, 'Wasted' tells Mark Johnson's journey through heroin and crack dependency to becoming a successful entrepreneur who helps other recovering addicts.

  21. The Gladiator

    Carla Capshaw

    ★ 4.1 (706) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the brutal Roman Colosseum, a legendary gladiator's hard-won freedom and hardened heart are imperiled by his beautiful Christian slave's forbidden faith. Her secret could cost them both their lives, but it offers him a love stronger than any arena.

  22. The Surrounded

    D'Arcy McNickle

    ★ 3.8 (706) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A young man, educated in the white man's world, returns to his family's ranch on the Flathead Reservation. He is caught between clashing cultures, his family's struggles, and the reservation's destructive hold, leading to his ruin under the law he tried to avoid.

  23. Rani And Sukh

    Bali Rai

    ★ 3.9 (705) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a modern-day Leicester romance, Rani and Sukh unknowingly rekindle a fated love story, their families' ancient Punjabi feud threatening to repeat a tragic cycle of violence and heartbreak.

  24. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

    William Wordsworth

    ★ 4.0 (704) average on Goodreads

    Wordsworth's walk along the Wye River becomes a journey through memory, nature's comfort, and the human spirit's growth.

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