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by Alice Hoffman
3.9(10,374)
After a disaster, a grieving girl named Green retreats into her ruined garden and her own skin, trying to erase her past until mysterious encounters make her face the possibility of healing and finding love again.
by Edgar Allan Poe
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In the streets of Paris, a powerful stolen letter hides in plain sight, baffling the police until C. Auguste Dupin uncovers its disguise through psychological deduction.
by Sandra Cisneros
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Lala, a young girl, explores her family's history from Chicago to Mexico City, uncovering how storytelling, identity, truth, and love intertwine, like the cherished 'caramelo' rebozo passed down through generations.
by Evelyn Waugh
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In the opulent, bizarre world of Whispering Glades, a British poet navigates American death, love, and embalming, revealing the commercialism beneath Hollywood's polished surface.
by Kevin Brooks
4.2(10,360)
On a secluded island, a 15-year-old girl's summer of self-discovery transforms into a harrowing fight for justice when she falls for a mysterious, ostracized stranger falsely accused by a prejudiced community.
by Jack Kerouac
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A raw, stream-of-consciousness journey through a Beat Generation poet's spiritual and carnal wanderings, as he grapples with fame, faith, and enlightenment from San Francisco to a solitary fire tower.
by Angela Carter
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In a dazzling fin-de-siècle world of freaks and marvels, an American journalist chases the truth behind Sophie Fevvers, a winged aerialiste who may be a genuine swan-woman or the ultimate circus illusion, as their love story unfolds across the stages and frozen landscapes of Europe.
by Mark Greaney
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A decorated close protection agent, hobbled by a devastating injury and relegated to mall security, gets one last shot at redemption protecting a UN peace mission in Mexico's deadly 'Devil's Spine' against ruthless drug cartels.
by Jaclyn Moriarty
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Through notes, letters, and bizarre messages, a witty teenager navigates friendship, family, and first crushes, all while a mysterious pen pal learns her deepest secrets.
by Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm explains how the burden of modern freedom can make people surrender their independence to authoritarianism.
by Samuel Richardson
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A virtuous servant girl skillfully resists her master's seduction attempts, turning her experience into an early novel about class, power, and personal integrity.
by Simon Mawer
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A modernist glass house on a Czechoslovakian hill observes a century of war, passion, and political change as its Jewish and gentile residents are forced to flee, leaving their home to new occupants.
by Nelson DeMille
4.2(10,309)
A respected executive's life falls apart when a secret Vietnam War atrocity, long buried, resurfaces, threatening to expose his past and destroy everything he values.
by Alexandra Bracken
4.2(10,306)
After a global collapse, a young man haunted by his past becomes a skiptracer, only for his first target—a silent, mysterious girl—to change his life and lead him to an uncertain future.
by Amanda Foody
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In the cutthroat City of Sin, a finishing school girl risks her reputation with a con man to find her missing mother, uncovering a deadly secret about her past and gambling everything to save them both.
by Alistair MacLeod
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From the windswept shores of Cape Breton to the gritty streets of Toronto, the MacDonald brothers, scarred by tragedy and sustained by ancestral tales, navigate the enduring, often brutal, pull of family and the sea that defines them.
by Wendell Berry
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In her later years, Hannah Coulter tells the story of her life, her love for her Kentucky land, two husbands, and a community that holds strong against new times.
by Ian McEwan
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As the Berlin Wall crumbles, a son-in-law unearths the four-decade-old, terrifying encounter that fractured his in-laws' marriage, revealing how a single moment of evil can echo through a lifetime and across a continent.
by Augustine of Hippo
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With the Roman Empire collapsing, Augustine defends Christianity, arguing for an eternal 'City of God' whose values last longer than human cities.
by Thomas L. Friedman
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This book uses a Pulitzer-winning journalist's decade in the Middle East to explain the region's complex politics and cultures from Beirut to Jerusalem, offering lasting insight.
by Larry Watson
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In the summer of 1948 Montana, a young boy's image of his heroic uncle shatters under a horrific secret, forcing his family to confront the divide between loyalty and justice.
by Flannery O'Connor
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by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.1(10,253)
Akutagawa's Japan mixes ancient tales of moral uncertainty and feudal life with the author's raw, modernist descent into sadness and madness, all told with a master stylist's clear prose.
by Bertolt Brecht
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In Victorian London's underworld, a charming gangster's marriage to a naive heiress starts a satirical, jazz-infused show that exposes society's hypocrisy.