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  1. How Brands Grow : Part 2

    Jenni Romaniuk

    ★ 4.2 (591) average on Goodreads

    This book explains brand growth by showing how to use mental and physical availability to create a strong, memorable presence in consumers' minds.

  2. The November Criminals

    Sam Munson

    ★ 2.6 (591) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Armed with a sharp wit, a drug-dealing side hustle, and an unrequited crush, a cynical high school senior turns his college application essay into an unfiltered, obsessive investigation into his classmate's murder.

  3. What Waits in the Water

    Kieran Scott

    ★ 4.1 (588) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A summer of first crushes and small-town secrets turns sinister when Hannah uncovers a dark history of drownings in the very lake her stepsister is so eager to explore.

  4. Sanctuary

    Jenny Carroll

    ★ 4.1 (588) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A psychic on the run from the government must team up with the agent sent to recruit her when a child's disappearance forces them to confront a dangerous militia and their complicated alliance.

  5. The Greatest Thing In the World

    Henry Drummond

    ★ 4.3 (586) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    Drummond shows how Christian love goes beyond simple feeling to become the foundation of a good life.

  6. Silver

    Steven Savile

    ★ 3.6 (585) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A detective, haunted by amnesia, uncovers a conspiracy where ancient werewolf legends meet modern genetic experiments. To save humanity, he must accept the monster within.

  7. The Wonder of Charlie Anne

    Kimberly Newton Fusco

    ★ 4.0 (585) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    During the Depression, a girl named Charlie Anne, living with a strict cousin and farm chores, finds an unexpected friend in Phoebe, an African American girl, challenging small-town prejudice and showing love's power.

  8. Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

    P.D. Ouspensky

    ★ 4.0 (584) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Haunted by a recurring dream that reveals the cyclical futility of his existence, a man desperately seeks to alter his fate across multiple lifetimes in a philosophical journey from Moscow to Paris.

  9. The Wild Swans at Coole

    William Butler Yeats

    ★ 3.9 (584) average on Goodreads

    In 'The Wild Swans at Coole,' Yeats watches wild swans, whose unchanging dance mirrors his own aging spirit.

  10. Into the Blue

    Robert Goddard

    ★ 4.0 (581) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A disgraced Englishman hiding in Greece must solve the mystery of a guest's disappearance before his past catches up to him, uncovering a dangerous conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power.

  11. The Haunting

    Lynne Ewing

    ★ 3.9 (579) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Three D.C. teens awaken ancient Egyptian magic. Sudi, struggling with her new powers, must face a spectral stalker and an unknown enemy, all while navigating a new romance.

  12. Host

    Peter James

    ★ 4.0 (578) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A brilliant but obsessed scientist's quest for immortality unleashes a terrifying digital consciousness that threatens humanity.

  13. Notes on the Synthesis of Form

    Christopher W. Alexander

    ★ 4.0 (578) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    Alexander explains how traditional, un-self-conscious cultures naturally create well-adapted forms, then offers a radical, set-theory-based method for modern designers to overcome arbitrary ideas and create truly harmonious designs by breaking down problems into their inherent, context-driven subsystems.

  14. A House Without Windows

    Stevie Turner

    ★ 3.6 (578) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Trapped for years in a windowless room, a doctor clings to the flickering hope that her lost fiancé is still searching for her, even as the lines of reality begin to blur.

  15. John Gabriel Borkman

    Henrik Ibsen

    ★ 3.8 (577) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A disgraced banker, imprisoned by his own ambition and the icy grip of societal judgment, paces his upstairs prison, dreaming of a financial comeback while the women in his life battle over the shattered remnants of their shared past and the fate of their son.

  16. Mixed Blood

    Roger Smith

    ★ 3.9 (576) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An American fugitive in Cape Town finds his past catching up to him, ensnaring him and a local night watchman in a deadly game with a corrupt cop and a vengeful detective.

  17. Halfway to the Sky

    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

    ★ 4.1 (575) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Twelve-year-old Dani, heartbroken and wanting to escape, begins a defiant hike on the Appalachian Trail. Her equally troubled mother joins her, and their path ultimately leads them both to healing and a renewed connection in the wilderness.

  18. Little Manfred

    Michael Morpurgo

    ★ 4.0 (574) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A carved wooden dachshund becomes a symbol of an unlikely friendship between a German prisoner of war and a young British girl, spanning WWII and hinting at a hopeful reunion during the 1966 World Cup.

  19. Hannibal

    Thomas Harris

    ★ 3.7 (573) average on GoodreadsHistory

    Years after eluding the FBI, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, now a respected curator in Florence, finds his cultured life threatened by a disgraced Clarice Starling, a greedy Italian detective, and the monstrously disfigured Mason Verger, who seeks to feed Lecter to his own ravenous eels as twisted revenge.

  20. Household Gold

    Steve W. Price

    ★ 3.8 (573) average on Goodreads
  21. White

    Angelina J. Steffort

    ★ 3.8 (572) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An ordinary girl's life spirals into an epic celestial battle when her heart falls for a mysterious angel, unwittingly making her a pawn in an ancient war between good and evil.

  22. The Knife That Killed Me

    Anthony McGowan

    ★ 3.7 (572) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Caught in the terrifying orbit of a charismatic bully, a high schooler's desperate attempts to escape a brewing gang war only pull him closer to the moment he holds the knife that will end a life.

  23. Gospel

    Wilton Barnhardt

    ★ 4.3 (572) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A shy theologian and a cynical ex-Jesuit race across continents, from the Vatican to the ancient Silk Road, in a thrilling, erudite, and often humorous pursuit of a lost first-century gospel that could redefine the essence of Christian faith.

  24. City of Ruin

    Mark Charan Newton

    ★ 3.7 (572) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a city already crumbling under the weight of its monstrous residents and an otherworldly invasion, Commander Brynd Lathraea and Inquisitor Jeryd must hunt a supernatural serial killer while preparing Villiren for its impossible last stand.

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