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by Jennifer Donnelly
4.0(27,714)
A heartbroken Brooklyn teen, facing expulsion, finds comfort and a strange link to a French Revolution actress through her antique diary, blurring time and reality in the catacombs of Paris.
by Danielle Paige
3.8(27,689)
To save a fractured Oz, a Kansas girl must betray her heroes and confront a Dorothy who refuses to stay dead, uncovering a conspiracy that threatens both worlds.
by Katie Davis
4.4(27,680)
An American homecoming queen trades college and comfort for the Ugandan dust, adopting fourteen children and founding a ministry, all in radical obedience to a divine call.
by Beverly Cleary
4.0(27,673)
When her father loses his job, eight-year-old Ramona, with her imagination and mischievous spirit, tries to bring back joy and normalcy to her struggling family.
by Natasha Anders
3.9(27,662)
A wife, wanting freedom from her emotionally distant husband, finds her desire for divorce complicated by an unexpected pregnancy and his sudden realization that he cannot bear to lose her.
by Francine Rivers
4.2(27,634)
Two women, separated by a century but united by a scarlet threaded quilt and a shared journey of faith, discover the enduring power of surrender and God's unconditional love amidst life's trials.
by Agatha Christie
3.9(27,611)
When a seemingly accidental death is followed by a hatchet murder and a cryptic funeral remark, Hercule Poirot must untangle a web of Victorian secrets to expose the truth behind a family's deadly inheritance.
by Holly Black
4.1(27,609)
With his Chaos-ridden wolf as his only ally, Callum Hunt returns to the Magisterium, where he gets caught up in the theft of a magic-severing gauntlet and pursued by enemies who suspect his true, dark power.
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
4.1(27,602)
In a world where a third child means death, Luke Garner must navigate a mysterious boarding school, posing as another boy while uncovering the dark secrets of a society that wants him erased.
by Katherine Addison
4.0(27,575)
An exiled, half-goblin emperor, put on the throne by tragedy, navigates a dangerous court of assassins and schemers while looking for a friend amid the isolation of power.
by Patricia Reilly Giff
4.0(27,572)
A spirited 12-year-old orphan, placed with an eccentric elderly artist, grapples with her present while haunted by the vivid memories of a loving foster family she once nearly called her own.
by Andrea Levy
4.0(27,565)
In post-WWII London, a Jamaican couple seeking belonging and their white landlady navigating her own hidden truths reveal the complexities of immigration, prejudice, and unexpected human connection.
by David Arnold
3.9(27,547)
A quirky, observant teenager flees her new, medicated life in Mississippi on a Greyhound bus to find her sick mother, embarking on a hilarious and heartbreaking odyssey of self-discovery amidst a cast of eccentric strangers.
by Colson Whitehead
3.2(27,541)
In post-pandemic New York, a civilian sweeper clears residual zombies and confronts the weight of a fallen world over three surreal days.
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3.5(27,511)
A London detective returns to war-torn Shanghai, only to find his childhood memories of his parents' disappearance are as unreliable as the city itself.
by Peter H. Reynolds
4.2(27,505)
A single dot on a blank page helps a young girl move past self-doubt to artistic discovery and self-expression, showing that creativity starts with one mark.
by Sharon Guskin
3.8(27,502)
A mother, a professor, and a four-year-old's memories of a past life come together to solve a seven-year-old disappearance, blurring lines between fantasy and reality.
by Susan Jeffers
4.0(27,497)
Conquer the paralysis of fear and transform your life by embracing a 10-step positive thinking process, turning every decision into a 'no-lose' situation, and risking a little more each day.
by Ken Follett
3.9(27,474)
In World War II Cairo, a desperate British major and a courageous young Jewish girl must outwit a cunning Nazi spy whose coded messages, transmitted through a belly dancer, threaten to open the city to Rommel's advancing army.
by Kristen Ashley
4.3(27,473)
A fiercely independent woman, scarred by her past, finds her globetrotting life upended by her meddling grandmother's dying wish: to connect her with a small-town, big-hearted ex-boxer who makes consistently bad decisions in love.
by Beverly Cleary
4.0(27,419)
A boy's ordinary life on Klickitat Street turns into a series of lively, dog-fueled adventures when a stray, ice cream-loving canine named Ribsy adopts him, showing that even everyday streets can hold extraordinary adventures.
by Susan Cooper
4.0(27,414)
In a Cornish town, three siblings search for a stolen golden grail. This hunt connects with the old Greenwitch ritual and a mysterious boy's new powers, all while fighting the Dark.
by Kristen Simmons
3.8(27,383)
In a dystopian America, where moral statutes replace the Bill of Rights and dissent leads to brutal arrests, a teenage girl must navigate a dangerous world to save her mother, only to find the boy she loves is one of her oppressors.
by Brunonia Barry
3.5(27,352)
In a town known for witchcraft, a woman who can read the future in lace must face her past and uncertain mind to solve her aunt's disappearance, while a skeptical detective tries to find the truth among unreliable family stories.