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by Lindsey Leavitt
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After her boyfriend cheats, a heartbroken teen ditches technology and tries to live by her grandmother's 1962 to-do list, only to find that old-fashioned goals are tricky in the modern world.
by Florence Scovel Shinn
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Learn how to use spiritual laws to get what you want in life.
by Enid Blyton
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The Famous Five uncover a hidden dungeon and its secrets beneath Finniston Farm, racing against a mysterious rival to claim its long-lost treasures.
by James Hogg
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A man's confession of murder, fueled by his belief in divine justification, unfolds against the rigid Calvinism of 17th-century Scotland.
by Mahbod Seraji
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On the eve of revolution, a young Iranian man's secret rooftop romance with his betrothed neighbor is brutally exposed, forcing him to confront the despot's iron fist and her to make an impossible choice.
by Danielle Lori
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A sweet mafia princess finds herself drawn to her dark, dangerous, and forbidden future brother-in-law, awakening a taste for the darkness she never knew she possessed.
by Peter Carey
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A reclusive French aristocrat, haunted by revolution, journeys through early 19th-century America, observed and illustrated by his enigmatic English companion, Parrot.
by Mary Pope Osborne
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Jack and Annie ride the ultimate wave back in time to ancient Hawaii, where surfing lessons turn into a race against a looming tidal wave to save their new island friends.
by Joseph Heller
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Bob Slocum's mind unravels amid corporate absurdities, domestic anxieties, and sexual fantasies in a successful yet suffocating life, all moving toward an unnamed catastrophe.
by Al Gore
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Al Gore explores how the decline of rational discussion in American public life harms democracy.
by Jim Stovall
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A spoiled heir must complete twelve life-altering tasks, guided by his eccentric great-uncle's posthumous instructions, to discover the true meaning of wealth beyond mere money.
by Denis Diderot
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In a chaotic journey through 18th-century France, the servant Jacques struggles with his belief in fate while living a life of freedom, questioning storytelling and free will.
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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In early 20th-century Paris, a young Danish poet, Malte Laurids Brigge, struggles with his aristocratic past and the terror of modern life, seeing death everywhere as his own identity fades.
by Henry James
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Caught in the venomous crossfire of her parents' scandalous remarriages, young Maisie navigates adult deceit with an innocence that sharpens every betrayal.
by Jennifer Lee Carrell
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A Shakespeare scholar races across continents, deciphering clues in the Bard's works, to unmask a killer recreating his most theatrical murders and uncover a literary secret that could rewrite history.
by Karen Kingsbury
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On the brink of divorce, a couple must pretend to be happy for their daughter's wedding, which forces them to remember their old love and wonder if they can start over.
by Aaron Hartzler
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After a party, a small town's social media explodes with accusations, forcing Kate to face difficult truths about her friends, complicity, and the boy she thought she knew.
by S. Walden
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After a stint in juvie for a past mistake, a lonely high school senior finds an illicit and dangerous solace in the reciprocated affections of her much older calculus teacher, risking everything for a forbidden connection that promises to turn her life from bad to 'good'.
by Willa Cather
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A Nebraska farm boy, stifled by a loveless marriage and a world that offers no outlet for his idealism, finds his purpose and a sense of belonging in the Great War.
by James Lee Burke
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Haunted by a mother he never knew, Detective Dave Robicheaux unearths a decades-old murder, only to discover her violent past is linked to the corruption he faces in New Orleans.
by Chaim Potok
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A world-renowned Hasidic artist, exiled in France, returns to the Brooklyn religious community he fled after a family tragedy, forcing him to confront the gap between his sacred heritage and his art.
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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A wealthy Lima family's seemingly idyllic life unravels into a tapestry of forbidden desires and erotic games, all under the watchful, artistic eye of a precocious stepson.
by Lisa Tawn Bergren
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When a modern American teenager in Tuscany touches an ancient tomb, she is sent into a fourteenth-century Italian battle and falls for a knight from another time.
by Krista Ritchie
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Connor Cobalt, a man once defined by narcissism, faces the ultimate test of his love for Rose when their future is threatened, forcing him to choose between his carefully constructed world and protecting the family he has learned to cherish.