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by Alex Agyei-Agyiri
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A Ghanaian woman recounts her forced migration from Nigeria, revealing the devastating personal toll of xenophobic politics and shifting national identities.
by Bill Cooper
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Tracing two millennia of forgotten history, 'After the Flood' connects European lineage to Noah's ark through the documented journey of Japheth's descendants.
by Jean Craighead George
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Stranded in the vast Okefenokee Swamp after an alligator attack, fourteen-year-old Jack must decipher an ancient island mystery that unexpectedly unravels secrets from his own past.
by Rob Nixon
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Rob Nixon's 'slow violence' concept explains how gradual environmental harm affects the global poor most, requiring new ways to see and address crisis.
by Hugh Howey
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Jules faces the toxic truth of her silo's origins and a new internal threat, even if it means awakening Silo 1's terrifying power.
by Henry George
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Henry George's 1879 book explores why poverty deepens as wealth grows, proposing a solution to industrial slumps and inequality that influenced figures like Einstein and Tolstoy.
by Julie Hall
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When her beloved is dragged into the fiery abyss, demon hunter Audrey must descend into Hell itself to rescue him from Satan's clutches, only to discover that some prices are too high for a happily ever after.
by Lauren St. John
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A headstrong girl and a determined boy race horses from Colorado to Oregon, outriding danger and outsmarting pursuers, all while their hearts and horses race for glory.
by W. Somerset Maugham
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A wife with her own secret outsmarts her unfaithful husband and gossiping friends, commenting on societal expectations and personal freedoms.
by Glen Rounds
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Born blind on the Dakota plains, a courageous wild mustang navigates the prairie's dangers before finding an unexpected connection and purpose with a determined ten-year-old boy.
by Sigmund Freud
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Freud explores the unsettling familiarity of the 'uncanny,' showing how deep fears and desires can be hidden by trivial memories and imagination.
by A.J. Butcher
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Bond Team's ultimate spy school final exams push them to the brink of collapse, forcing them to betray friends and face memory wipes if they fail a gauntlet of simulated terror.
by Sabaa Tahir
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An ancient evil brings apocalyptic chaos, forcing a grieving scholar, a haunted soldier, and a tormented soul catcher to face their fears, unlock powers, and save their world.
by Rudolf Arnheim
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Rudolf Arnheim's "Film as Art" argues that cinema's true artistry came from using its early limitations—silence, black-and-white, and flat images—creatively.
by Jean Ferris
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After a joyride lands her in a girls' rehabilitation center, sixteen-year-old Dallas must face her past and navigate the journey of redemption among other 'bad' girls.
by Lauren Kate
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As the world nears its end, an immortal love faces its biggest challenge, making an angel choose between her past and saving everything.
by Andrew Motion
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Andrew Motion's biography removes layers of myth to show a "skinned alive" Keats, a Romantic genius whose letters, like jazz, pulse with the "headlong charge" of a mind moving through the social and political worlds of his time.
by Colin Harrison
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A Manhattan insurance lawyer investigates a socialite's son's violent death, uncovering secrets involving a Czech hand model and Christmas ornaments in a volatile city.
by Richard Peck
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Three high school friends, seemingly inseparable, face a terrible question about how well they knew each other when one dies by suicide.
by C.E. Kilgore
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An empathic woman with a dark past and a logical android with new emotions find their paths changed by a forbidden love. This love threatens to expose hidden alien societies and redefine their understanding of the universe.
by Rudy Josephs
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When a big-city teen moves to a small town that has outlawed dancing, he ignites a rebellion to challenge restrictive traditions and win the heart of the local preacher's daughter.
by Cecelia Holland
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In the Holy Land of 1187 A.D., amidst clashing empires and religious fervor, a woman's passionate journey unfolds against the backdrop of Jerusalem's fate.
by W.S. Gilbert
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In a Japanese town, a minstrel in love navigates a Lord High Executioner's absurd rules and Victorian society's quirks in this operatic satire of love and power.
by Josh Malerman
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Welcome to Goblin, a town where severed body parts are love letters, ghost traps are home décor, and a child's magic show ticket might be a one-way trip to another dimension, all under the terrifying eye of the North Woods.