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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.
by Lucy Ellmann
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After a Christmas Eve fall introduces him to an unconventional woman, a jaded plastic surgeon finds his meticulously constructed Manhattan life, and his understanding of love and feminism, radically upended.
by James Abbott
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Framed and imprisoned, a disgraced commander must gather a diverse team of outcasts to escape and reclaim his kingdom from a tyrant.
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
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As Napoleon's shadow falls over England, the Morland family navigates war, plague, scandal, and heartbreak, from London's fashionable salons to the bloody decks of Trafalgar.
by Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott's collection reworks the Cinderella story and other Victorian romances. Young women overcome societal rules and find love, showing that a strong spirit could make its own happy ending, even in the 1800s.
by Jean Giraudoux
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In a whimsical Parisian fable, an eccentric duchess and her "mad" compatriots orchestrate a comically poetic trial, luring greedy prospectors to their subterranean doom and restoring joy and justice to the world.
by Leo Tolstoy
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A prince, burdened by guilt, seeks to right a past wrong against a peasant girl, exposing the harsh realities of 19th-century Russia and embarking on a spiritual journey.
by Jim Bernheimer
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A disgraced unicorn, bound to a reluctant recruit, must unlock their shared dangerous magic to unravel the mystery of his survival and reclaim his honor.
by Jonathan Berk
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Understand financial valuation through the Law Of One Price, making corporate finance clear and practical.
by Kelley Armstrong
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A genetically engineered necromancer on the run from her creators finds her already complicated life dangerously intertwined with two brothers, one a sorcerer and the other a werewolf.
by Melody Mayer
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In the glittering world of L.A., a socialite-turned-nanny will spin a web of charming lies to claw her way back to the top, even if it means blurring the lines between friendship and a very beneficial arrangement.
by Lauren Kate
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Trapped in a school for Nephilim, Luce uncovers the deceptive past of her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel, as she discovers her own power to glimpse previous lives through dangerous Shadows. She questions if their love is destined or a beautiful lie hiding a darker fate.
by James Silke
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Across a war-torn continent of savage empires and steaming jungles, the legendary Death Dealer, Gath of Baal, hunts for the mythical Noon, the beautiful Queen of Cats.
by Sarmila Bose
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Through fragmented memories from all sides, 'Dead Reckoning' reconstructs the 1971 South Asian war, dissecting partisan myths and revealing its human cost.
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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In a village where supernatural whispers chill the air, a minister confronts the terrifying secret of Thrawn Janet, a woman condemned as a witch.
by Raymond Benson
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In a post-Metal Gear explosion world, a rookie agent named Raiden must navigate a New York Harbor superstructure full of strange villains, resurrected legends, and a hijacked president to uncover a conspiracy and a superweapon hidden in plain sight.
by Joel Mokyr
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Mokyr explores why some societies achieve technological breakthroughs while others stagnate, providing historical lessons for future innovation.
by W.E.B. Du Bois
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W.E.B. Du Bois brings John Brown to life, not just as a historical figure, but as the incendiary prophet whose righteous, violent struggle against slavery ignited the Civil War.
by John Morgan Wilson
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A disgraced, alcoholic reporter is pulled back into West Hollywood's dangerous underworld to solve a murder, forcing him to confront his past and fall for the prime suspect.
by James W. Ellison
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A quiet Pulitzer-winning author's four-decade silence ends when a street-smart, basketball-playing prodigy with a hidden talent for writing accidentally enters his life, starting a mentorship that changes them both.
by Marissa Meyer
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As Gatlon City teeters on the brink, Nova and Adrian must unmask a resurrected enemy and reconcile their hero-villain identities before love, loyalty, and their entire world are obliterated.
by Larry D. Thompson
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A pro bono lawyer dives into the murky world of dark money and political corruption after a Halloween fundraiser turns deadly, forcing him to hunt for a phantom killer to clear his friend's name.
by Chris Jenks
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Chris Jenks's "Thought as a System" dissects the complex interplay between individual cognition and the societal structures that shape our thinking, revealing how our thoughts are not isolated events but products of interwoven social and intellectual frameworks.
by Chad Lucas
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In a town where dreams become nightmares and adults turn into zombies, an anxious neurodivergent boy and a Black baseball player must confront their deepest fears and a sinister corporation to save their families and community.