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by D.J. MacHale
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With Bobby Pendragon missing, Mark and Courtney must defend Second Earth from a charismatic cult leader revealing alien truths, as the territories converge and Saint Dane's final conquest of Halla begins.
by Chuck Palahniuk
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From the strange Testicle Festival to hospice volunteering and his father's murder, Chuck Palahniuk explores the unsettling realities that shape his fiction.
by Robison Wells
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Trapped in a deadly, adult-free academy where factions rule and surveillance is constant, Benson Fisher uncovers a horrifying secret that makes escape not just a desire, but a desperate fight for a fate worse than death.
by Sarah Waters
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In Victorian London's most notorious prison, a grieving socialite is drawn to a spiritualist inmate, risking scandal and her sanity to unravel a mystery of séances, betrayal, and forbidden desires.
by Catherine Fisher
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A prisoner escapes a sentient, high-tech prison only to become a pawn in a royal conspiracy in the Luddite outside world. Meanwhile, his friends brave the prison's dangers to find a mythical artifact that may offer true freedom.
by Nina LaCour
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After her best friend's suicide, Caitlin feels alone. She finds a journal, and through new friendships and first love, she learns to heal and reconnect.
by Garth Nix
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Trapped in a city of crumbling magic and dangerous secrets, a young woman yearns for the wild freedom of the forest, only to discover her own untamed power might be the key to both her escape and the city's undoing.
by Cristin Terrill
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Imprisoned and tortured for a future crime, a girl must travel back in time to murder the boy she loves to prevent a world-ending tragedy, guided only by cryptic notes from her future self.
by Susan Meissner
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During the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic in Philadelphia, the Bright family, having lost so much, finds hope and purpose by caring for an orphaned baby, forming a strong bond born from tragedy.
by James Patterson
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An art student's dream of a diamond-fueled future with his girlfriend shatters when he becomes the hunted prey of the world's deadliest assassin and a rival killer, all while navigating the chaotic aftermath of a Grand Central Station heist.
by Edward Abbey
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A band of eco-saboteurs, led by a beer-guzzling Vietnam vet, wages a hilariously destructive war against the industrial forces ravaging the American West, blowing up bridges and dams in the name of wilderness preservation.
by S.A. Bodeen
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Trapped in an underground bunker built by his paranoid father, a restless teenager begins to question the true dangers of the outside world versus the suffocating secrets lurking within his family's 'safe' haven.
by Lauren Willig
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An American graduate student in Jimmy Choo boots unearths a scandalous 19th-century spy romance, discovering the true identity of England's most elusive savior, the Pink Carnation, and perhaps a hero of her own.
by John Boyne
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An ambitious writer, without talent, betrays and steals stories across Europe and America, charming everyone on his way to literary fame, only to find the top a dangerous place.
by Miriam Toews
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In a desolate Mennonite town, a sharp-witted teenager navigates her family's ruins, piecing together the mystery of their disappearance with dark humor.
by John le Carré
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A mild-mannered diplomat unearths a conspiracy of pharmaceutical greed and political cover-ups while investigating the murder of his activist wife in Kenya, transforming from a complacent gardener into a relentless seeker of truth.
by Rohinton Mistry
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When a frail patriarch's broken ankle forces him into his devoted daughter's cramped home, the hidden weaknesses in a Bombay family's compassion, integrity, and faith are exposed.
by Veronica Roth
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Bound by prophecies of death and divided by a tyrannical father's return, Cyra and Akos must choose between their fated demise and igniting a war that could shatter their love and their world.
by Jaroslav Hasek
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In a world at war, the seemingly simple-minded Švejk skillfully navigates the absurdities of the Austro-Hungarian army, turning bureaucratic chaos into a comedic dance of survival.
by Iain Pears
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In 1660s Oxford, a suspicious death unravels through the conflicting accounts of four witnesses—a physician, a lord's son, a cryptographer, and an antiquarian—each weaving a tangled web of truth and deception around a young woman accused of murder.
by Arthur Miller
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A prosperous post-war family's facade crumbles when a son's love for his disgraced partner's daughter forces a devastating confrontation with his father's buried wartime guilt and the deadly cost of his success.
by George Orwell
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In colonial Burma, a timber merchant, fed up with the hypocrisy around him, navigates racial prejudice, political schemes, and a failed romance, eventually breaking under the weight of a system he despises.
by Agatha Christie
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A year after Rosemary Barton's mysterious death, six acquaintances gather, each with secrets, to face the possibility that one of them is a killer.
by Tami Hoag
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When a murdered woman's identity unravels into a shocking fabrication, a detective and child advocate must race to uncover the truth before the killer erases all traces of a life that never truly existed.