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by Jonathan Auxier
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A blind orphan thief finds magical eyes that take him to a hidden island, starting a quest with a horse-cat knight to save a kingdom and find his destiny.
by Amber Kizer
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On her sixteenth birthday, outcast Meridian discovers she's a half-angel Fenestra tasked with guiding souls to the afterlife, navigating forbidden romance with her protector, and battling dark forces who prey on the dying.
by Karen Kingsbury
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A movie star and a young woman navigate fame's pressures during a sensational trial, while another family uncovers a long-lost secret that changes their past and future.
by Rory Sutherland
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Rory Sutherland's 'Alchemy' shows how advertising ideas, behavioral science, and funny stories prove that the best solutions come from ignoring logic and trying irrational approaches.
by Scott Sigler
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A teenage girl wakes up in a coffin with no memory. She finds herself one of many, trapped in a decaying, bone-filled labyrinth with a horrifying truth waiting.
by Emily Lloyd-Jones
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In a village with reanimated corpses, a gravedigger and a mapmaker travel into mountains to confront a fae curse and find out about their pasts.
by Emma Clayton
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Behind a towering wall built to exclude plague-ridden animals, a kidnapped girl and her capuchin monkey pilot a Pod Fighter into the forbidden wild, unraveling the true nature of her captivity and the world beyond.
by John Steinbeck
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On a rickety bus traversing California's forgotten byways, a group of dreamers, schemers, saints, and sinners are jolted from their pasts toward an uncertain, yet hopeful, future.
by Brandon Sanderson
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A man whose mind holds many hallucinatory experts must find a reality-bending camera and its missing inventor before its power changes human history.
by Kate Atkinson
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In a 1960s British suburb with Elizabethan roots, Isobel Fairfax experiences Shakespearean time warps, uncovering the truth about her vanished mother and the hidden lives of her family.
by Danny Wallace
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A man's isolated life changes when he spends a year saying "yes" to every opportunity, leading to adventures, love, and self-discovery.
by Angela Carter
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After her childhood is shattered, Melanie is thrust into a bizarre, puppet-filled world ruled by her toy-making uncle, where she must navigate a grotesque coming-of-age among life-sized dolls and mechanical birds.
by Halldór Laxness
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In early 20th-century Iceland, a determined sheep farmer battles the elements, poverty, and tradition to build an independent life for his family.
by Michael Morpurgo
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Separated by continents and circumstance, a boy and his orphaned white lion cub forge an unbreakable bond, promising a reunion that transcends the boundaries of time and memory.
by Marie Force
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A grieving widow returns to Gansett Island, hoping to rekindle a lost love and find happiness with the man who never forgot her.
by Meg Cabot
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A spirited heiress, sent from India to London to marry, finds her engagement upended by a meddling ship captain who might be saving her from a charming rogue.
by Oliver Goldsmith
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In a world of genteel poverty and unexpected troubles, the kind but naive Dr. Primrose faces misfortune, his Christian morality a guide against fate's twists.
by Kate Furnivall
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In 1928 China, a Russian exile and a Chinese freedom fighter fall in love amidst revolution, stolen jewels, and danger.
by Stuart Gibbs
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When a hippo dies at a new, high-tech zoo, 12-year-old Teddy Fitzroy must navigate corporate secrets, suspicious staff, and danger to find out why Henry the hippo died before he becomes the next victim.
by Matt Ruff
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A woman arrested for murder claims she belongs to the 'Bad Monkeys,' a secret group fighting evil; her sanity, and reality itself, break down under a psychiatrist's questioning.
by Elizabeth Chandler
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After a fatal car crash, a girl is brought back to life by the kiss of her deceased first love, only to find their reunion has awakened a dangerous supernatural force.
by Bryce Courtenay
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In WWI-era Australia, a tomboy's mercy for a killer sparks a lifelong fight for justice, love, and the truth of her child's father, mirroring the era's tragedies.
by Joe Dunthorne
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Armed with a thesaurus and a vivid imagination, precocious Oliver Tate navigates the treacherous, hormone-fueled waters of adolescence, attempting to salvage his parents' crumbling marriage while simultaneously pursuing the enigmatic Jordana Bevan and losing his own virginity.
by Michael Cunningham
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A Manhattan art dealer's ordered life and idea of beauty unravels with the arrival of his wife's younger brother, forcing him to confront the nature of his own desires.