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by Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the utopian city of Omelas, perpetual joy is bought by the perpetual suffering of one child, forcing its citizens to choose between complicity and a solitary walk into the unknown.
by John Locke
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This revised edition explores John Locke's foundational arguments for legitimate government and individual rights, updated with recent scholarship on his influential ideas.
by Rebecca Roanhorse
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In a drowned world where Navajo legends walk the earth, a jaded monster hunter must confront ancient evils and her own past to save a missing girl from a terror far greater than she imagined.
by Jim Bouton
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Pitcher Jim Bouton exposes the hidden world of 1960s baseball with a rebellious spirit and a keen eye for the absurd, revealing the hilarious, heartbreaking, and human lives of the men behind America's pastime, changing how we view sports heroes.
by Sandie Jones
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A wife's perfect world unravels when her husband's suspicious behavior forces her to question if her closest confidante is actually her biggest betrayer.
by William Nicholson
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In a city obsessed with work and social climbing, three children defy a tyrannical system to seek a mythical instrument, the Wind Singer, hoping its ancient voice can free their people from a dreamless life guarded by a monstrous entity and its army of perfect killing machines.
by James Patterson
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With the ability to create anything he imagines, Daniel X hunts deadly aliens across the universe to avenge his parents' murder and protect Earth.
by Robyn Schneider
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At a boarding school for the terminally ill, a cynical teen discovers that a group of rebels and an unexpected love might just be the most potent medicine for living, even as they face dying.
by Robertson Davies
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A WWI veteran, shaped by a boyhood snowball incident and a life of unusual influence, confronts memory, history, and myth as he finds the wonderful in the everyday.
by Matthew Quick
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A grieving, socially awkward man goes on a road trip with an unlikely group to find belonging, prompted by a letter from Richard Gere and his mother's final words.
by Debra Dean
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An elderly Russian woman's mind becomes a Hermitage, filled with masterpieces she memorized during the Siege of Leningrad, her only refuge from war and time as her present slips away.
by Suetonius
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With privileged access to imperial archives, Suetonius reveals the shocking private lives and public reigns of Rome's most powerful rulers, from Julius Caesar's ambition to Nero's artistic whims, in a collection of vivid, often scandalous, biographies.
by Marlo Morgan
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An American woman's unexpected journey with a nomadic Aboriginal tribe in the Australian outback becomes a four-month experience, revealing ancient wisdom and changing her modern ideas about life, survival, and spiritual harmony.
by Samuel Shem
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In the chaotic trenches of a hospital, six idealistic interns confront the brutal realities of medicine, love, and sanity, guided by the cynical wisdom of the Fat Man, as they fight to become doctors without losing themselves entirely.
by Corban Addison
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After a devastating tsunami orphans them, two Indian sisters are thrust into Mumbai's brutal sex trade, prompting an American lawyer to risk everything to free them from a ruthless international network.
by Gena Showalter
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Imprisoned in an asylum, a defiant teen must choose between two warring afterlife realms and the alluring agents they send, all while navigating a first life that's merely a dress rehearsal for eternal war.
by Katie O'Neill
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A blacksmith apprentice finds a lost tea dragon, uncovering a gentle world of ancient caretaking, quiet mentorship, and the bonds made over shared cups of magical tea.
by Lora Leigh
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A Navy SEAL, thought dead after a cartel mission, returns to his grieving wife under a new name, fighting hidden enemies and the truth of his survival to reclaim the love he lost.
by Tara Hudson
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A dead girl with amnesia finds forbidden love and a dangerous quest for truth when she saves a living boy from her ghostly river, only to be haunted by a jealous spirit determined to drag her back into eternal solitude.
by Takashi Hiraide
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In a quiet Tokyo cottage, a freelance couple's hushed existence is subtly transformed and then shaken by the unexpected, passing visits of a neighborhood cat.
by Karen Kingsbury
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A small-town girl chases Broadway dreams in New York City while her high school sweetheart grapples with family turmoil and new beginnings in Indiana, testing the limits of their love across the miles.
by Maurice Sendak
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Young Mickey tumbles from his bed into a midnight kitchen where three bakers, oblivious to his presence, knead him into the morning cake, sparking an intoxicating, dreamlike escape.
by Lisa Wingate
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A struggling young mother on Hatteras Island unearths eighty-one hidden prayer boxes, each a year of an old woman's life, revealing a lifetime of faith, love, and a final lesson that could transform her own dangerous path.
by Willy Lindwer
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This book uses the accounts of six women who survived the Holocaust to reconstruct the 'unwritten' final chapter of Anne Frank's life, from her arrest to her death, showing the hell she endured.