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by Bruce Pascoe
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Bruce Pascoe's "Dark Emu" uses historical records to challenge the idea that pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians were only hunter-gatherers, showing they were skilled farmers, irrigators, and land managers whose practices colonizers ignored.
by Megan Miranda
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Haunted by her agoraphobic mother's kidnapping and the secret of her own birth, a high-schooler must confront inherited fear and a chilling past when her mother vanishes, forcing her to trust a rescuer as a mysterious threat closes in.
by Immanuel Kant
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Kant's 'Critique of Judgment' explores how our minds see beauty and purpose in nature, showing the human need to find order and meaning, even if a divine designer cannot be rationally proven.
by Emery Lord
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When her mother's cancer shatters her perfect world, Lucy abandons her faith and comforts for a summer camp for troubled kids, only to discover secrets about her family, her beliefs, and the resilience of love.
by Kate Racculia
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Trapped by a blizzard in a a haunted hotel, a high school music festival turns into a quirky, suspenseful search for a missing prodigy, forcing a past witness to confront her own demons amid a cast of eccentrics.
by Franz Kafka
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In a collection of letters, Franz Kafka reveals his soul to his Czech translator, Milena Jesenská, turning a professional exchange into an intimate and ultimately doomed 'letter love' affair.
by Claude Brown
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Claude Brown's memoir explores the harsh realities of 1940s and 50s Harlem, showing his journey from a street-hardened youth to a man who escaped the ghetto.
by Amanda Howells
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by Gloria Chao
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An MIT prodigy, Mei secretly rebels against her parents' strict plans for her future, battling a fear of germs and a forbidden crush while trying to define her own identity.
by Rafael Sabatini
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A lawyer, angered by a nobleman's injustice, becomes the theatrical Scaramouche. He uses his wit and sword to spark revolution and find love during the French Revolution.
by C.G. Jung
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Jung asks individuals to resist mass movements and societal conformity by seeking their unique self, or risk becoming an unthinking part of a totalitarian system.
by Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway examines bullfighting, showing its beauty, tragedy, and lessons on courage and death, alongside his sharp observations on life and art.
by Paul Fleischman
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Haunted by a tragic mistake, a teenage boy embarks on a cross-country odyssey, building whimsical whirligigs that anonymously mend the broken spirits of strangers in his wake.
by An Na
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A Step from Heaven tells Young Ju's story, from a Korean child's dream of America as paradise to the harsh realities of immigrant life, where she faces cultural clashes and family struggles on her path to self-discovery.
by Enid Blyton
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When a mysterious flashing light appears at Dick's window, the Famous Five begin a quest to decode an urgent message and uncover a dangerous secret hidden in the hills.
by E. Nesbit
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Three siblings discover that a pretend princess and a magical ring can transform an ordinary castle into a realm of genuine enchantment and unexpected adventure.
by Grace Lin
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In a village where the moon is gone and strange things happen, a runaway chore boy finds that a mysterious traveler's stories, and his own past, hold the key to every puzzle.
by Craig Davidson
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In 1980s Niagara Falls, a misfit twelve-year-old and his eccentric uncle uncover bittersweet truths about memory and the spectral past while investigating local ghost stories with a new group of friends.
by John Cheever
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The Wapshot brothers leave their New England fishing village for the wider world, dealing with modern life's absurdities, their family's odd legacy, and the search for belonging, while their father fights a cousin for the family fortune.
by Enid Blyton
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The Famous Five trade their camping trip for a hunt when a scientist's research papers vanish, pulling them into a theft and motive puzzle.
by Eugene O'Neill
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In a desolate bar, a group of alcoholics confront their illusions when a traveling salesman arrives, intent on shattering their last vestiges of hope.
by B.V. Larson
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Abducted and thrust into a brutal alien testing ground, Kyle Riggs must survive increasingly deadly trials to discover humanity's terrifying new place in a galaxy ruled by an empire that considers Earth a mere backwater.
by Christine Feehan
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A woman with unique gifts enters a dangerous world with a mysterious man whose kiss offers both belonging and peril, as she searches for a mistress of the light.
by Jon Scieszka
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A young girl's ordinary day transforms into an hilariously perplexing mathematical gauntlet, forcing her to outwit a relentless 'Math Curse' before she's completely divided, subtracted, and multiplied into a muddle.