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by Julie Murphy
3.9(10,099)
A six-foot-tall, blue-haired force, Ramona navigates family duty, post-Katrina life in rural Mississippi, and an unexpected attraction to her childhood friend Freddie that challenges her understanding of love and herself.
by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
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Lady Erienne is trapped in a marriage to a mysterious, disfigured lord. She finds her heart caught between her adoring husband and the passionate Yankee she can't forget, even as whispers of her husband's true identity and the fire that scarred him threaten to unravel her life.
by C.W. Gortner
4.0(10,095)
In the lavish, dangerous courts of 16th-century Europe, Juana of Castile, often called 'mad,' fights for her birthright and Spain's future against scheming husbands and ambitious monarchs, showing her sanity and strength were simply ahead of their time.
by David Halberstam
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Halberstam shows how America's most intelligent leaders, caught by pride and Cold War beliefs, carefully created the disastrous Vietnam War.
by Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens, in a series of letters, guides new rebels on the art of principled dissent, using history and his own wisdom to shape critical thinkers.
by Arto Paasilinna
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After hitting a hare with his car, a disillusioned journalist abandons his old life to wander the Finnish wilderness with the rabbit, embarking on a series of uproarious, life-affirming misadventures.
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
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A determined fourteen-year-old navigates her dreams while helping a young mother find hope amidst life's challenges.
by Beth Duke
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A modern nurse uncovers the glamorous, yet scandalous, life of a charming 1947 Alabama socialite, whose posthumous memoir assignment reveals hidden truths connecting their two eras.
by Mike Lupica
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After being cut from the travel team his legendary father once led, a small but determined twelve-year-old forms his own underdog basketball squad to prove that heart, not height, defines a true champion.
by Witold Gombrowicz
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A writer is forcibly regressed to schoolboy antics by a diabolical professor, plunging him into a hilariously grotesque world that skewers the absurdities of conformity and immaturity.
by Rachel Caine
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A disgraced Weather Warden, reborn as a Djinn, must master her new powers and save humanity from an atmospheric threat, all while evading those who want to claim her soul.
by Agatha Christie
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In a fog-shrouded Welsh manor, an unexpected guest stumbles upon a murder and a dazed wife, only to uncover a web of past loves, hates, and a dead man's lingering shadow.
by Laurann Dohner
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Drugged and on the run from bigots, a human woman and a genetically engineered New Species male must rely on instinct and trust to survive a forced breeding scenario, forging a bond that defies prejudice and danger.
by Grace Metalious
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In the seemingly peaceful 1940s New England town of Peyton Place, a mother, her artistic daughter, and their friend deal with hidden pregnancies, incest, and murder.
by Isabel Allende
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From the barrios of Los Angeles to the psychedelic 60s, 'The Infinite Plan' tells Gregory Reeves' story through poverty, passion, and spiritual awakening as he faces his destiny and the women who shape it.
by Marlon James
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Born into Jamaican slavery, a woman of dark power named Lilith becomes the reluctant center of a slave revolt, her desires and identity threatening to unravel the very conspiracy she's meant to ignite.
by Megan McCafferty
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Twenty-something Jessica navigates the chaos of post-college New York City, balancing bunk beds, bohemian friends, and an unsatisfying job. She receives a puzzling marriage proposal from her on-again, off-again ex-addict soulmate, Marcus, whose secret life with her best friend threatens to upend everything.
by Bernard Malamud
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Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy with a mysterious past and a bat named 'Wonderboy,' navigates ambition, corruption, and mythic destiny on the diamond.
by Poppy Z. Brite
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Two serial killers, one an artist and the other a sadist, search for the 'perfect victim' in London and New Orleans, ending in terror and violence.
by Alex Flinn
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An immortal witch, whose attempts to help others often backfire spectacularly, finds herself drawn into a high school drama involving a conniving stepsister and a brewing curse.
by Blake Mycoskie
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Blake Mycoskie, TOMS founder, shows how to build a successful business by combining passion, profit, and purpose, proving that giving back is key to entrepreneurial success.
by Amo Jones
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A tainted heiress seeking a fresh start at an elite prep school finds herself entangled with a powerful, secretive club of ten 'bad boys' and their enigmatic leader, Bishop, who unravels a dangerous world of family lies and hidden truths she never knew existed.
by Rivers Solomon
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On a segregated spaceship that mirrors the antebellum South, an autistic sharecropper uncovers a conspiracy connecting her mother's suicide to the sovereign's death, sparking a fight for freedom and a mythical promised land.
by Samantha Shannon
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As London's new Underqueen, Paige Mahoney must unite a fractured clairvoyant underworld against a deadly new technology that threatens to extinguish all of their kind, even as past betrayals and vengeful enemies close in.