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by Charles Frazier
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A twelve-year-old orphan's journey to run a remote trading post in the Cherokee Nation becomes a lifelong story of love, belonging, and finding identity in a changing world.
by Joel C. Rosenberg
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A young Jewish man, after escaping Nazi Germany and joining the resistance, must find a way to break out of the horrific Auschwitz death camp and expose the Holocaust to a world on the brink of collapse.
by Manuel Puig
4.0(12,842)
In an Argentine prison, a flamboyant homosexual's movie stories become a bridge to intimacy with a Marxist, even as a dangerous ultimatum closes in.
by Lauren Barnholdt
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After a summer of secret kisses with her best friend's boyfriend, Hannah navigates the treacherous first day of senior year, where every glance and whispered word threatens to expose her betrayal and redefine her understanding of love and loyalty.
by Julie Cross
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Stuck two years in the past, a heartbroken time-traveler races against shadowy 'Enemies of Time' to master his powers and rewrite a tragic future, all while trying to save the girl he loves and possibly the world.
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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An eight-year-old girl's 1960s childhood on a Canadian Air Force base ends with a local murder, forcing her to uncover family secrets and the complexity of human morality over two decades.
by Larry McMurtry
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An aging Texas Ranger, now a bounty hunter, hunts a young bandit across the frontier, confronting his past.
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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On the crimson plains and frozen poles of Mars, John Carter races against time and monstrous foes to reclaim his beloved Dejah Thoris, only to find himself perpetually outmaneuvered in a high-stakes game of interplanetary pursuit.
by Jennifer Crusie
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A woman escaping her ex-husband gets tangled in a funny, ghost-filled adventure with his magically mischievous wards, forcing her to face both supernatural hauntings and the lingering feelings from their past.
by Kim Edwards
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Haunted by her father's death, Lucy finds forgotten objects in her childhood home, uncovering a dark family secret that will redefine her past and future in the mysterious Lake of Dreams.
by Augustine of Hippo
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Augustine's spiritual autobiography follows his search for God through his sinful past, examining memory, desire, and human nature with a philosopher's mind and a convert's heart.
by Mariko Tamaki
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After a classmate's suicide, misfit Wiccan goth Skim navigates first love, depression, and self-discovery in a private girls' school obsessed with appearances.
by I.W. Gregorio
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When a homecoming queen's perfect life shatters with the revelation that she is intersex, she must navigate a public identity crisis while redefining what it means to be herself.
by Peter Heller
3.8(12,766)
A celebrated painter in rural Colorado, haunted by a violent past, sees his fragile peace shattered when an act of vigilantism forces him back into a brutal world, where he confronts his inner darkness and seeks redemption through art.
by Maya Banks
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A dominant billionaire reclaims his childhood sweetheart, only to find her bound to another and craving the very submission he once awakened within her.
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Quincie opens a vampire-themed restaurant and faces a werewolf rite of passage, pulling her into a deadly supernatural love triangle where she might become prey.
by Leigh Bardugo
4.0(12,754)
This story uncovers the origins of the Shadow Summoner, showing the lonely boy who became the feared Darkling and shaped Ravka's fate.
by Ingrid Law
4.0(12,748)
When thirteen-year-old Ledger Kale's seemingly useless savvy for making things fall apart turns out to be a powerful, property-destroying force, he must wrangle his chaotic gift, outsmart a nosy reporter, and save his uncle's ranch from foreclosure in the Wild West.
by Hannah Rothschild
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A lovelorn chef finds a lost 18th-century masterpiece in a junk shop, starting a high-stakes treasure hunt through London's art world and forcing her to confront its secrets and her own capacity for love.
by Brian Herbert
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As the universe faces a new Butlerian Jihad, humanity's heroes must unite against the technologically advanced Hunters who threaten the last of the Bene Gesserit and the legacy of the Kwisatz Haderach.
by Robert Harris
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At Bletchley Park during WWII, a brilliant but troubled codebreaker races to crack Germany's new Enigma cipher, all while investigating the disappearance of the woman he loves, who he suspects might be a spy.
by Clare Vanderpool
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After WWII, a grieving Kansas boy at a Maine boarding school goes on a quest with an eccentric, pi-reciting classmate to find a legendary bear, discovering truths about loss, reality, and the stories we believe.
by Jed Rubenfeld
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In 1909 New York, Sigmund Freud and his American protégé must unravel the dark subconscious of a city terrorized by a sadistic killer preying on heiresses, all while navigating a conspiracy to discredit the very foundations of psychoanalysis.
by Iris Murdoch
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In bohemian London, a charming but aimless young translator chases an old love, falls into absurd misadventures, and grapples with an enigmatic philosopher's ideas about language.