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by Elizabeth Scott
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Torn between a comfortable relationship and a new love who awakens her true self, Lauren must choose between the life she's expected to live and the passionate future she craves.
by James Hadley Chase
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When a ruthless killer stalks the French Riviera, an American detective becomes involved in blackmail, seduction, and murder where every turn reveals a new predator and no one is safe.
by Casey McQuiston
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A cynical Brooklyn transplant finds her world upended and her heart on the line when her subway crush turns out to be a punk rock lesbian from the 1970s, trapped in time and desperately needing her help to return home.
by Louise Plummer
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With only a faded photograph and her mother's vague answers, a determined teen sets out to find the truth about the father she's never known, even if it means uncovering a past her mother wants to keep hidden.
by Orson Welles
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Explore the making of Orson Welles's 'Citizen Kane' through Pauline Kael's essay and the original script, showing the conflicts and art behind Hollywood's most talked-about film.
by Jack Finney
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A collection of speculative tales where ordinary lives brush against the extraordinary, from commuters stumbling into the past to suburbanites discovering peculiar new neighbors and the chilling consequences of a man's obsession with his career.
by Jennifer Bassett
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In 19th-century France, an ex-convict's search for a new life conflicts with an inspector's relentless pursuit, all while revolution brews.
by Jonathan Swift
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In a war of wit and ink, ancient tomes clash with modern pamphlets on the dusty shelves of a library, each vying for intellectual supremacy and the very soul of literature.
by Carolyn Boroden
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Learn to use the Golden Ratio through Fibonacci analysis to time the market and predict prices, helping you profit consistently in stocks, futures, and Forex.
by Jane Mitchell
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Indoctrinated into a brutal militia, a boy soldier's descent towards an irreversible act of violence is met with the desperate, unwavering love of a family determined to reclaim the son they remember.
by Bill Wallace
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When Jake and Ben unearth a hidden canoe, they paddle into a treacherous quicksand swamp teeming with alligators, only to discover a human enemy far more dangerous than the gators guarding a buried treasure.
by Connie Willis
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Three young historians studying WWII through time travel become trapped in the war-torn past, facing the terrifying possibility that they are changing the history they swore only to observe.
by Cao Xueqin
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An 18th-century Chinese aristocratic family faces love, duty, and decline in a poignant story set in their grand, yet secluded, world.
by Rabindranath Tagore
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In a gold-obsessed town, Nandini, with red oleanders, ignites a desire for freedom in enslaved miners, sacrificing herself for their liberation.
by Violet Summers
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After a lifetime of small-town gossip and a cheating boyfriend, Miranda Lee finds herself the reluctant center of attention once more, as two men, Wyatt and Jon, conspire to convince her that their unconventional, shared love is the only talk of the town worth having.
by Martin Heidegger
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Heidegger's wartime lectures dissect the Latinized West, tracing truth's decline from Parmenides' early insights through language to expose the modern world's 'out of joint' state.
by Chaim Potok
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In 1950s Brooklyn, a rabbinical student, Reuven Malter, questions his path and faith's traditions while helping his friend Danny Saunders free a brilliant, troubled boy from his genius and community expectations.
by Lucian Bane
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An amnesiac Angel of Judgment, bound to the first human he meets, must now execute his bonded partner, plunging him into a cosmic war against Heaven and Hell that blurs the lines between good and evil.
by Julie Hall
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A popular high schooler's accidental death thrusts him into a supernatural war where a forbidden connection with a fellow demon hunter might be the only thing that can save him from his own broken spirit.
by Ranjit Lal
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A mystical well in a family obsessed with sons hides the watery faces of three girls, drawing fifteen-year-old Gurmi into a cyber-magical quest to uncover the dark truth of his family's past and prevent a future atrocity.
by Arthur Slade
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A brilliant but grieving teenager observes high school social groups like an anthropologist, only to find himself drawn into the human drama he studies.
by Mahasweta Devi
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Mahasweta Devi's three stories show how the female breast, stripped of its nurturing meaning, becomes a place for societal exploitation, resistance, and tragic sacrifice in the lives of marginalized women.
by Budd Schulberg
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A naive Argentine giant is built into a boxing sensation only to be ruthlessly exploited and discarded by a corrupt fight racket, exposing the brutal underbelly of the sport.
by Jude Watson
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Against the Jedi Council's orders, Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl return to the unstable planet Apsolon to rescue kidnapped daughters and face the breakdown of a past mission's peace, challenging their bond.