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by Hugh Lofting
4.0(15,928)
Join Tommy Stubbins and Doctor Dolittle on a journey to uncharted lands where they befriend a giant sea snail, seek the world's greatest naturalist, and champion the voices of every creature.
by James D. Watson
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James Watson's personal account describes the intense race to discover the double helix, revealing the ambition, intellect, and rivalries behind one of the 20th century's greatest scientific finds.
by J.D. Robb
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On an opulent off-world resort, Lieutenant Eve Dallas's 'vacation' with her billionaire husband, Roarke, spirals into a deadly game of cat and mouse when a killer with ties to both their pasts turns a police conference into a personal vendetta.
by James Jones
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In the sweltering tension of pre-WWII Hawaii, a defiant bugler's refusal to box and a top sergeant's dangerous affair with his captain's wife expose the brutal honor and savage despair of men bound by the unyielding codes of the U.S. Army.
by Henry James
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A London couple schemes to inherit a dying American heiress's fortune, but their plan unravels when love and guilt complicate their treachery.
by Bernard Cornwell
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During the brutal Hundred Years' War, an English archer seeks the Holy Grail and revenge against the black rider who ruined his life, only to find himself hunted by a sadistic Inquisitor.
by G. Willow Wilson
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A young hacker in a Middle Eastern security state finds an ancient book of jinn, pulling him into a dangerous world of unseen forces and government surveillance as he fights to save himself and his clients.
by Anne Tyler
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Haunted by his brother's sudden death, a guilt-ridden teenager finds solace and a path to redemption in the 'Church of the Second Chance,' where forgiveness requires sacrifice and love.
by Krista Ritchie
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A Princeton grad with a struggling fashion line navigates reality TV, sex addiction, and a possessive boyfriend who wants to protect her virginity from a predatory producer.
by Jeffrey Archer
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Amid ambition, betrayal, and sudden turns, the Clifton and Barrington families navigate the turbulent 1960s, battling for corporate control, a ruined engagement, and a mysterious new arrival.
by Cammie McGovern
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A fiercely independent girl with cerebral palsy and a boy with OCD find an unexpected love that sees beyond their perceived flaws, proving that true connection thrives in shared vulnerability.
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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In a future where the population is strictly controlled and life is traded for life, a man grapples with the morality of bringing a child into existence when it means someone else must die.
by Linwood Barclay
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A father's desperate search for his missing wife at an amusement park plunges him into a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to destroy his town and his life.
by Maureen Johnson
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Haunted by a past encounter with a Ripper copycat, Rory returns to a London plagued by new, inexplicable deaths. She discovers she can now eliminate ghosts and must convince a secret ghost-fighting squad that a sinister, unseen force is at play before more lives are lost.
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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In a 1959 seaside town, a widow opens the only bookshop, facing hostility and strange events that show some communities prefer to avoid new ideas.
by Jeffrey Archer
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A CIA rookie and a hardened Mossad agent race across continents to stop Saddam Hussein's elaborate plot to steal and publicly destroy the Declaration of Independence on July 4th.
by Wendy Higgins
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A demon's son, master of seduction, finds his carefully crafted world of forbidden desire unraveling when he encounters the one woman immune to his charms, forcing him to choose between his dark destiny and a love he never thought possible.
by Brian Tracy
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Define, plan, and work toward your goals to achieve your dreams.
by Ken Follett
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During the Cold War, an American agent and a French operative, linked by a shared past and a woman between them, navigate a dangerous world of passion and betrayal from Parisian bombings to the battlefields of Afghanistan.
by George Orwell
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In 1930s London, a poet's defiant war against the 'money-god' spirals into a darkly comic descent through poverty, petulance, and the inescapable lure of the very conformity he despises.
by Truddi Chase
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Ninety-two distinct personalities, 'the Troops,' recount their shared past of abuse and their extraordinary journey towards one woman's healing.
by Bette Greene
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In a small Arkansas town during WWII, a lonely Jewish girl finds an unexpected friend in a German prisoner of war, risking everything for a forbidden connection that grows amidst prejudice and misunderstanding.
by Mervyn Peake
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In Gormenghast castle, a newborn heir's first year unfolds amidst a grand sense of doom, as the cunning Steerpike weaves his ambition through its sterile rituals.
by Stephen King
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On Death Row, a condemned man's final goodbyes are intertwined with a miraculous creature and a terrifying, unseen revenge that will grip you tighter with every step down the Green Mile.