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by James Lee Burke
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Haunted by a past he can't escape, ex-cop Dave Robicheaux is dragged from the Louisiana bayou into a deadly web of Mafia hitmen, federal agents, and personal demons, all while battling a homicide rap and his own alcoholism across the American West.
by Antony Beevor
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Antony Beevor tells the story of World War II's final months, when the Red Army advanced into Germany, bringing mass rape, pillage, and destruction, as millions of civilians were caught between Soviet terror and Nazi fanaticism.
by Bruce Chatwin
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Prompted by a childhood fascination with a piece of brontosaurus hide, Bruce Chatwin travels through Patagonia, finding forgotten stories, unique people, and the remnants of Butch Cassidy's hideout in a land still holding onto its wild past.
by Carolyn Keene
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Nancy Drew's quick thinking turns a mansion fire rescue into a perplexing quest to decipher an anonymous diary and unmask a mysterious stranger.
by Allison Pataki
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In a dazzling imperial court, a spirited Bavarian duchess inadvertently steals her sister's fiancé, becoming an accidental empress who must navigate treacherous Hapsburg politics and win the love of an empire she never sought.
by Kasie West
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After a spontaneous lottery win catapults pragmatic Maddie into a world of unexpected wealth and swirling rumors, she finds herself navigating newfound fame and the delicate secret she's keeping from the charming coworker who sees her for more than just a jackpot.
by James Patterson
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A compassionate doctor with a difficult past in Sudan becomes the unexpected and controversial frontrunner for Pope, starting a deadly power struggle within the Vatican where old ways clash with a new vision for the Church's future.
by C.J. Sansom
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As King Henry VIII lies dying, his court is on the verge of religious war. Hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake must find Queen Catherine Parr's secret manuscript before it destroys her and her allies.
by Anonymous
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Explore ancient Sanskrit wisdom as sages reveal that divine truth lives within each person's eternal spirit, not in dogma.
by Andie Mitchell
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After a childhood of trauma and secret binge eating, a young food blogger shares her honest journey to lose half her body weight, changing her relationship with food and herself.
by R.F. Kuang
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Haunted by genocide and fueled by opium, the shaman-warrior Rin joins a warlord's bloody quest for a republic, only to discover that her vengeance and love for Nikan may demand an even greater, more monstrous sacrifice.
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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On a world without women and facing a reproductive crisis, a naive male obstetrician must travel into the galaxy to secure his planet's future.
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Rousseau explores how humanity fell from a good, pre-social state into tyranny, showing how systems meant to protect us instead corrupt our nature through growing inequality.
by Karan Mahajan
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After a marketplace bombing shatters two families, a surviving boy deals with trauma and radicalization, while the bomber's story shows the effects of political violence.
by William Shakespeare
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In the early Roman Republic, a proud warrior's contempt for common people and his mother's ambition drive him from battlefield glory to bitter exile and a devastating alliance with his deadliest enemy.
by Vladimir Nabokov
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An aging art critic's pursuit of a manipulative teenage mistress in Weimar-era Berlin spirals into a chilling descent of folly, betrayal, and destruction, orchestrated by a rival.
by Ian Fleming
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Join the eccentric Pott family as their magnificent, self-driving car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, soars and floats them into a whirlwind adventure to outwit a notorious gang of robbers.
by Salman Rushdie
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Rushdie's magical-realist epic follows the doomed romance of a Kashmiri clown and dancer, the assassination of an American counterterrorism chief, and the devastating clash of worlds across continents and generations.
by Dr. Seuss
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In a world divided by toast-buttering preferences, the Yooks and Zooks escalate from slingshots to world-ending weaponry, comically illustrating the absurd and perilous nature of an arms race.
by James Fenimore Cooper
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A young frontiersman raised by Native Americans faces tribal warfare, the ruthlessness of 'civilized' men, and a woman's will, shaping his spirit into a moral compass in the wilderness.
by Raymond Chandler
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In the sun-drenched, shadow-laden world of 1940s Hollywood, Philip Marlowe navigates a serpentine trail of blackmail, drug rings, and escalating murders, all sparked by a seemingly innocent search for a missing brother.
by Robert Ludlum
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A Nazi's defection threatens to expose the 'Scarlatti Inheritance,' a secret that could ruin powerful Western figures and change World War II.
by Susan Patron
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Convinced her French guardian is abandoning her, ten-year-old Lucky flees her quirky desert town with her dog and a hefty survival pack, determined to find her own 'Higher Power' amidst the vast, unpredictable Mojave.
by Kenneth Oppel
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Separated from his colony during a perilous migration, a tiny Silverwing bat named Shade must navigate a world of monstrous owls, strange allies, and carnivorous vampires to find his way home.