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by Tessa Bailey
3.6(27,036)
A party planner, eager for respect, enlists a retired baseball star to fake a romance, only to find their staged kisses spark a real, passionate attraction.
by Chris Bohjalian
3.6(27,032)
A college student, recovering from an assault, becomes obsessed with a homeless man's past, finding photographs that hint at a glamorous life and a connection to her own Long Island childhood, blurring reality, memory, and echoes of The Great Gatsby.
by M.T. Edvardsson
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A pastor and a criminal defense attorney must face their family's dark secrets when their daughter is accused of murder, challenging their love and morality.
by Nikolai Gogol
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A lowly clerk's life unravels into a darkly comedic and tragic obsession with a new overcoat, only to find himself haunting the streets of St. Petersburg in its spectral pursuit.
by Eoin Colfer
3.9(27,006)
In a future of corporate orphanages and deadly product testing, a runaway boy sees life-draining specters, joins a team of teen hunters, and uncovers a conspiracy bigger than the monsters themselves.
by Marilynne Robinson
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Lila, a wanderer with a protective past, finds refuge in an Iowa church, leading to an unexpected marriage, a spiritual awakening, and a new understanding of love and belonging.
by Harlan Coben
4.0(26,954)
A promise to two girls for a safe ride home puts Myron in a desperate race against time when one vanishes, making him the prime suspect.
by Kasie West
4.1(26,931)
A 'Searcher' who sees both outcomes of every choice faces her greatest dilemma when her parents divorce, forcing her to live two distinct futures, each with love, loss, and a murder mystery connecting both realities.
by James Islington
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After a war that wiped out god-like Augurs, a student with minor magic discovers he has forbidden power, which awakens old enemies and an amnesiac stranger whose fate is tied to his.
by Chris Bohjalian
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A suburban bachelor party ends in murder when two escorts kill their bodyguards, destroying a man's life, marriage, and freedom as he gets caught up in crime and escape.
by Natsuo Kirino
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In the quiet Tokyo suburbs, a desperate night-shift worker strangles her deadbeat husband, plunging her and her lunch-making co-workers into a grim, blood-soaked pact with the yakuza to dispose of the body and escape their suffocating lives.
by Erin A. Craig
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Twelve sisters dance in a haunted manor by the sea, but as mysterious deaths claim them one by one, Annaleigh must uncover if their midnight revels are with charming princes or the very forces trying to drag them to their watery graves.
by Donald Miller
4.3(26,836)
Grow your business by changing your brand's message from confusing to clear, showing customers your solution will help them succeed.
by Jack Campbell
4.0(26,828)
A resurrected hero, idealized beyond belief, must reluctantly lead a crippled fleet through enemy territory and live up to his own impossible legend to save humanity from annihilation.
by Robert Greene
4.3(26,782)
Robert Greene's book explores the universal path to mastery, showing how anyone can develop their passion into skill and influence by debunking myths about genius.
by Peter Watts
4.0(26,768)
A crew of augmented but broken humans, including a resurrected vampire and a linguist with multiple personalities, travels to the solar system's edge to face an alien intelligence that communicates in silence, making humanity question consciousness and self.
by Robert A. Heinlein
3.9(26,742)
Genetically engineered for peak performance and loyalty, a courier named Friday navigates a fractured future Earth, outsmarting assassins and political intrigue with lethal grace and sharp wit, all while grappling with her own humanity.
by Graham Greene
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In Graham Greene's satirical thriller, a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana invents elaborate spy reports to keep his MI6 salary, only to find his fictional world of secret weapons and double agents materialize around him.
by Dave Eggers
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In a shimmering Saudi Arabian city, a desperate American businessman battles the twin specters of personal and global economic collapse while waiting endlessly for a king who might hold the key to his family's last hope.
by David Mitchell
4.0(26,664)
Nine different lives across the globe, from a museum attendant to a Mongolian spirit, are subtly connected by a shared consciousness, showing the depth of human connection, creation, and destruction.
by Gregory Maguire
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Through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion, now a seasoned wanderer named Brrr, Oz is on the brink of civil war while he seeks answers about Elphaba from a dying oracle, forced to trade his own fragmented, difficult past for the truth.
by Thomas Pynchon
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A perpetually stoned private investigator navigates a labyrinth of L.A. paranoia, bizarre characters, and the fading echoes of the psychedelic sixties in search of his ex-girlfriend.
by Dean Koontz
3.8(26,608)
A mother sees her 'dead' son, sparking a desperate search that uncovers a chilling conspiracy where science blurs the lines between life and death.
by Chris Bohjalian
3.7(26,603)
In war-torn Tuscany, a noble family's villa turns from refuge to prison under Nazi rule; years later, a serial killer targets the survivors, forcing a haunted detective to uncover dark secrets tied to her own past.