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by Elly Griffiths
3.9(30,785)
A solitary forensic archaeologist, who likes ancient bones and two cats, is drawn into a modern mystery when child remains on a desolate beach link to a decade-old disappearance, a taunting killer, and her Iron Age home.
by Richard K. Morgan
3.9(30,784)
A jaded mercenary hunts an alien starship gate on a war-torn planet, navigating radioactive ruins and deadly nanotechnology in a future where consciousness shifts bodies, proving loyalty only to himself.
by Julia Donaldson
4.5(30,755)
A clever mouse outwits a parade of predators and a mythical monster by spinning tales of a terrifying Gruffalo, only to discover the beast is real.
by Jordan Belfort
3.7(30,696)
Jordan Belfort's memoir is a wild ride through the decadent 90s, where an insatiable appetite for wealth, drugs, and debauchery propelled him from selling Italian ices to orchestrating a multi-million dollar stock fraud empire, only to see it all spectacularly collapse.
by Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking explains the universe's biggest mysteries, from the Big Bang to black holes, in a way that makes sense, inviting everyone to understand space and time without complex math.
by Michael J. Sullivan
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A cynical master thief and a disillusioned warrior, forced into an uneasy alliance, must infiltrate an unbreachable fortress to steal an arcane artifact, all while battling their mutual animosity and a kingdom's worth of impossible defenses.
by Mariana Zapata
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A figure skater about to abandon her Olympic dreams must partner with her rival, leading to a romance that melts their animosity.
by Maureen Johnson
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Pulled from the enigmatic Ellingham Academy, true-crime sleuth Stevie Bell is forced to choose between unraveling a decades-old mystery that has already claimed one classmate and protecting a fragile, forbidden romance with the son of a powerful, manipulative politician.
by James Rollins
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A deadly plague linked to an ancient threat sweeps the globe. A SIGMA Force commander races against time with an unlikely ally, following Marco Polo's trail to a cure hidden in humanity's genetic code, all while battling a madman and potential betrayal.
by Elizabeth Kostova
3.5(30,638)
A psychiatrist's ordered life shatters when a renowned painter's violent obsession with a 19th-century French Impressionist mystery pulls him into a labyrinth of lost loves, artistic genius, and historical tragedy spanning generations and continents.
by Laura Sebastian
3.9(30,637)
Imprisoned and stripped of her identity, a young queen, forced to endure a decade of torment, must sharpen her mind into a weapon to reclaim her stolen throne and avenge her murdered mother.
by Jasper Fforde
3.9(30,631)
In a rainy Reading where nursery rhyme characters are real and crime is absurd, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt solves Humpty Dumpty's murder amidst a conspiracy of money laundering, beanstalk problems, and the arrival of the JellyMan.
by Katharine McGee
3.7(30,619)
In a future New York, a thousand-story skyscraper holds a world of luxury, secrets, and engineered perfection. Five teenagers navigate forbidden love, betrayals, and the climb for status, knowing one wrong step could send them falling from their gilded cage.
by Clare Vanderpool
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In a town full of forgotten stories, a young girl finds a cigar box of secrets that reveals her father's mysterious past and the hidden history of Manifest, Kansas.
by Sarah Addison Allen
4.0(30,581)
When the first frost awakens magic in their apple tree, the Waverley women must face a mysterious stranger and their own desires for love, family, and belonging, risking everything to protect their enchanted lives.
by Martha Wells
4.3(30,567)
To protect its human and keep its anonymity, Murderbot must navigate corporate schemes and outwit authorities, all while realizing it might care.
by Greg Iles
4.2(30,543)
A widowed lawyer returns to his Mississippi hometown, only to unearth a decades-old murder, a blackmail scheme against his father, and the tangled, dangerous secrets of his own past, all while battling a corrupt judge and the lingering presence of J. Edgar Hoover's legacy.
by Ian Fleming
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James Bond becomes the ultimate target of a Soviet assassination plot, lured by a defector onto the Orient Express where SMERSH's assassins wait.
by Graham Moore
4.1(30,540)
In a city ready for electric light, a young lawyer risks everything to defend George Westinghouse against Thomas Edison, uncovering ambition, espionage, and invention where everyone has a shocking secret.
by Michael Crichton
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When graduate students are miniaturized and abandoned in the Hawaiian rainforest by a sinister biotech company, they use their science skills to survive a world where insects are monstrous predators.
by Alex Gino
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A young transgender girl named George, who everyone sees as a boy, plans with her best friend to audition for the role of Charlotte in the school play, hoping to finally reveal her true self to the world.
by Beryl Markham
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Beryl Markham's 'West with the Night' tells the story of her life in 1920s Kenya as a pilot and horse trainer, showing her defiance of expectations.
by Amy Tintera
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In post-apocalyptic Texas, the deadliest teen soldier, a Reboot brought back after 178 minutes, finds her resolve tested when ordered to train or eliminate a human new recruit whose smile awakens long-dormant emotions.
by Harlan Coben
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Marc Seidman's world shatters when his wife is murdered and daughter abducted, sending him on a relentless, life-threatening quest to find her amidst a labyrinth of deceit where everyone is a suspect and nothing is as it seems.