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by Saul Bellow
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Plagued by academic and marital ruin, Moses Herzog desperately scribbles unsent letters, a modern Job wrestling with his own spectacular failures and the absurdities of the age, all while clinging to a defiant, if crumbling, sense of self.
by Jamie Ford
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A determined Chinese-American orphan escapes 1930s Seattle to chase a film star he believes is his mother, uncovering a complex past.
by Isaac Asimov
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From humanity's first steps into the cosmos to the universe's heat death, a persistent question about reversing entropy drives the evolution of intelligence.
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Teenage Nick Gautier must master dating, driving, and his growing dark powers to save the world, or destroy it, as those who want him dead, including his own father, try to seal his destiny.
by Alex Flinn
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A rebellious modern teen accidentally awakens a 17th-century princess with a kiss, sending them on a chaotic adventure across time, dodging royal anger, and navigating a 316-year age gap.
by Ian Fleming
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James Bond goes undercover to expose a diamond-smuggling operation, uncovering a criminal network and a plot that threatens more than just precious gems.
by Claire Legrand
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A prophecy foretells two queens, one of light and one of blood. Their intertwined lives, centuries apart, will either save their war-torn world from an ancient evil or doom it to darkness.
by William Gibson
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In a future where past and present collide, a small-town gamer stumbles into a murder in a virtual London, unknowingly intertwining her fate with a publicist seventy years in the future, as both their realities unravel with dangerous consequences.
by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft, the audacious mother of modern feminism, ignited the spark of female independence in a world alive with the rights of man. She demanded equal education and professional identity over docile decorum.
by Maggie Nelson
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Maggie Nelson explores love, loss, and seeing through the color blue, turning it into a way to think about desire, suffering, and truth.
by John Irving
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An Indian film star, an American missionary, and a group of eccentrics, including separated twins and a dwarf chauffeur, head for a showdown with a serial killer in a story of fate and dark comedy.
by William Kent Krueger
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Former sheriff Cork O'Connor battles a Minnesota blizzard and his own past to solve murders and disappearances, uncovering a conspiracy at the heart of his snowy hometown.
by Jack Finney
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An advertising artist in a covert government operation travels to 1882 New York City to investigate a mysterious death, only to fall in love and face the impossible choice between his present and a meticulously recreated past.
by William Gibson
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A journalist, an information specialist, a high-end junkie, and a military navigation troubleshooter find their lives linked in a conspiracy where information is manipulated, and the line between real and digital blurs.
by Seneca
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Seneca's Stoic wisdom urges us to live in the present, explaining that life is not short, but often wasted through distraction.
by Friedrich A. Hayek
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Hayek's 1944 book warns that government economic control, even with good intentions, leads to totalitarianism, like Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
by Joan Aiken
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Orphaned cousins Bonnie and Sylvia must outwit their wicked governess, Miss Slighcarp, and her accomplice to reclaim their ancestral home, Willoughby Chase, while fending off literal wolves and the harsh realities of a Victorian-era orphanage.
by Robert A. Caro
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Lyndon B. Johnson's rise in the United States Senate, where his charm and legislative skill broke gridlock to pass Civil Rights legislation, changed American politics forever.
by Jerry Spinelli
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Donald Zinkoff, a boy who doesn't notice his own quirks, shows that genuine individuality and a joyful spirit can make an ordinary 'loser' into an unexpected hero.
by Eoin Colfer
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Framed for treason and left to rot in an island prison, a young inventor in the 1890s must literally build his dreams of flight into a desperate escape to clear his name and save his kingdom.
by R.L. Stine
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A shy girl's quest for a Halloween fright turns real when her monstrous mask fuses to her face, changing her into the nightmare she wanted to be.
by Elizabeth Lim
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In a kingdom where a needle is mightier than a sword, a young tailor disguised as a boy must craft three impossible gowns from the sun, moon, and stars while navigating courtly intrigue and a forbidden romance with a watchful magician.
by Maggie Stiefvater
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A volatile dreamer, a skilled thief, and a haunted hunter are drawn into a high-stakes game where dreams become perilous realities and existence itself is at risk.
by Jason Matthews
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Russian operative Dominika Egorova, a CIA mole, navigates a deadly world of love, espionage, Kremlin power, and assassination attempts as a mole hunt closes in and her forbidden passion for her handler threatens to unravel everything.