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by Lee Smith
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Through decades of Appalachian hardship and judgment, a woman's spirit and letters turn a life of perceived betrayal and toil into a story of lasting hope and the quiet power of the written word.
by Thomas Hardy
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In a remote Cornish parish, a spirited rector's daughter is torn between a young architect and an older literary man, reflecting the author's own struggle between his established career and the call of literature.
by Louise Erdrich
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Journey through 1847 with spirited Ojibwa girl Omakayas as she navigates the daily rhythms of family, nature, and the looming shadow of smallpox on Lake Superior's Madeline Island.
by Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' follows a man who uses a time machine to date Emma Bovary and a burglar's philosophical thoughts, offering a funny, anxious look at modern life.
by Richard Adams
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Two experimental dogs, scarred by human cruelty, escape into the wilderness with a fox, only to become targets of a massive hunt fueled by fear, misunderstanding, and the specter of the bubonic plague.
by T.J. Klune
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Haunted by past betrayals and the lingering song of a love he tries to deny, a scarred witch must confront the rising darkness within his chosen pack before it shatters the fragile peace of Green Creek and the bonds he desperately fights to maintain.
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
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Armed with only her wits and a loyal cat, an eccentric girl who feels most at home in the swamp tumbles into the spectral Ever After, a haunting land of ghosts and dangers, desperately seeking a way back to the living.
by Philip Roth
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From the gritty streets of 1930s Newark to the glittering heights of 1940s radio stardom, a passionate idealist's life unravels in the McCarthy era, his public downfall ignited by the private betrayals of a marriage consumed by political paranoia and personal vengeance.
by Deborah Wiles
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For ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger, who's attended 247 funerals at her family's funeral home, navigating the quirks of her Southern relatives and a sudden best-friend fallout proves that even an expert in loss still has much to learn about life's most surprising departures.
by Robert B. Parker
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When a bitter divorce escalates into a father's violent abduction of his son, Spenser is hired to retrieve the boy, only to find himself on a dangerous mission in the Maine woods to protect the child and outwit ruthless adversaries.
by Rachel Hawthorne
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Desperate to become the wolf she needs to be for the boy she loves and the pack she yearns to join, a powerless girl risks everything, including the very Shifters she hopes to impress.
by Jeff Hawkins
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Jeff Hawkins presents a theory that the brain models the world using hundreds of thousands of individual, map-like structures, changing our understanding of intelligence and AI.
by Frank Portman
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Armed with his dead father's copy of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' high school outcast Tom Henderson unravels a rock-and-roll conspiracy that turns his suburban angst into a Da Vinci Code-esque quest.
by David Mamet
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A college professor's meeting with a student turns into a chilling inquiry, exposing power, censorship, and abuse through weaponized language.
by Oscar Wilde
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To help a lovelorn student win his beloved, a devoted nightingale embarks on a desperate quest for a red rose, ultimately making the ultimate sacrifice to create one from her own heart's blood.
by Enid Blyton
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Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and Timmy the dog face the spooky legends of Whispering Island, hoping to find a real mystery among its old, unsettling secrets.
by Greg Bear
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On a Mars chafing under Earth's corporate rule, a young woman's quiet defiance ignites a generations-long struggle for planetary independence.
by Lawrence Durrell
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In pre-WWII Alexandria, where intellect and history meet, a group of expats goes into obsessive love and betrayal, mistaking physical pursuit for understanding.
by David Baldacci
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A master con artist flees a vengeful casino king, forcing Oliver Stone and his Camel Club to face a ghost from Stone's past: a seemingly ordinary family man who is, in reality, a relentless assassin systematically eliminating everyone connected to Stone.
by Ngugi wa Thiongo
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In the crucible of Kenya's fight for independence, a disillusioned villager grapples with betrayal, sacrifice, and the agonizing cost of freedom.
by Aristotle
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Aristotle's guide to persuasive speech teaches how to master rhetoric for public discussion and how to guard against its manipulative uses.
by John Boyne
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A determined young shoe-shine boy uncovers his father's hidden trauma in a war hospital, forcing him to confront the silent battles fought far from the trenches.
by Sona Charaipotra
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At an elite Manhattan ballet academy, three ambitious dancers navigate a cutthroat world of rivalry, romance, and dangerous secrets as they compete for the prima role, each willing to sacrifice everything.
by G.K. Chesterton
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Chesterton shows how the idea of linear human progress is wrong, revealing humanity's lasting distinctiveness and how the Christian faith explains life's deepest questions.