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by Sara Barnard
3.8(7,585)
Shy Caddy wants her best friend Rosie's confidence. When Suzanne arrives, she pulls Caddy into a thrilling, dangerous world where friendship, love, and self-destruction merge.
by Anna Snoekstra
3.7(7,578)
An imposter assumes the identity of a girl who vanished a decade ago, only to discover the perfect family she's infiltrated harbors dark secrets and the true abductor might still be lurking.
by Dara Horn
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A stolen Chagall painting helps a former child prodigy uncover his family's story, from Soviet orphanages to suburban New Jersey, as he connects with art, memory, and his past.
by Callie Hart
4.5(7,576)
In the explosive conclusion to Zeth and Sloane's saga, a missing daughter ignites a desperate race against cartels and corrupt agents, forcing them to confront their deepest fears and the true meaning of family amidst a hail of bullets and buried secrets.
by Aaron Copland
3.9(7,574)
Copland's guide helps listeners understand musical structure and emotion, turning passive listening into an active experience.
by Ernest Hemingway
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A World War II colonel, scarred by war, finds a final love with a young Italian countess in Venice, confronting his past with the resilience of the human spirit.
by Hilary Mantel
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Under the guillotine's shadow and the revolution's fervor, three men—Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins—navigate love, betrayal, and the bloody birth of a new France.
by C.J. Redwine
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Amidst a ravaged world and the looming threat of an unknown saboteur, Rachel and Logan must fight to keep their love, their people, and their hope for freedom alive as they flee into the treacherous Wasteland.
by Edgar Allan Poe
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A grieving scholar's fall into madness is shown through Gustave Doré's haunting, dreamlike engravings as he faces a prophetic raven and the sorrow of a lost love.
by Janni Lee Simner
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After a devastating war with Faerie, a 15-year-old girl discovers she has forbidden magic, forcing her to journey into the heart of Faerie to heal two broken worlds.
by Graham Swift
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In the desolate East Anglian Fens, a history teacher's meandering narrative of eels, incest, madness, and murder unravels his family's tormented legacy and the relentless, cyclical nature of history itself.
by Kate Mascarenhas
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When a newspaper clipping from the future hints at her grandmother's murder, Ruby Rebello must navigate a fractured timeline and the hidden history of the world's first female time-travel pioneers to prevent a tragedy that hasn't even happened yet.
by Janette Oke
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A prairie nurse, seeking more than small-town routines, finds that even Boston's sophistication can't fill her heart, leaving her to question where she truly belongs.
by Danielle Steel
3.9(7,545)
After a devastating accident in London, two soulmates, trapped in separate, loveless marriages, must navigate a path of recovery and loss, finding courage and unexpected rewards through their bond, which began with a single kiss.
by John Christopher
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As a plague turns the world's grasslands to dust, a man must lead his family through a collapsing Britain to reach a rumored sanctuary.
by Leigh Byrne
4.2(7,538)
An eight-year-old girl's world shatters when her mother, whom she adores, becomes a cruel tormentor, forcing her to confront the pain of loving the monster in her own home.
by Jenn Marie Thorne
4.0(7,536)
Orphaned and adrift, Kate's world is upended when she discovers her father is a presidential candidate, forcing her to navigate a cutthroat political campaign, a complicated new family, and a forbidden romance while grappling with her own burgeoning beliefs.
by Joseph Roth
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Joseph Roth's 'The Radetzky March' shows the Trotta family's fading life, a sad story of an empire about to fall, where duty and tradition are as strong as the coming war.
by R.J. Palacio
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In a world shattered by war, a young Jewish girl finds refuge and courage in unexpected places in Nazi-occupied France, changing the grandson of the boy who once tormented her.
by Naguib Mahfouz
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Betrayed in revolutionary Egypt, a master thief seeks revenge on his former wife, henchman, and a hypocritical mentor, leading to a desperate flight from the law and blurring the lines between victim and villain.
by Ashwin Sanghi
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From a screaming librarian in London to a tomb in Kashmir and a shadowy Vatican assassin, a Jesuit priest's fragmented visions unravel a global conspiracy tied to Christ, the Mahabharata, and an impending Armageddon.
by J.D. Horn
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As Savannah's calm is shattered by severed limbs, a witch must protect her unborn child from an ancient enemy wielding dark magic, or lose everything to a growing threat.
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A man's past resurfaces with the unexpected arrival of his deceased mistress's widower, igniting a psychological duel of guilt, jealousy, and morbid fascination.
by Salman Rushdie
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A young filmmaker becomes obsessed with a mysterious immigrant patriarch and his three sons who live in a Greenwich Village mansion, uncovering their opulent lives, dark secrets, and a nation's political chaos.