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by Alan Garner
4.0(6,847)
Two ordinary children stumble into an ancient war for a magical gemstone, becoming the last hope against a terrifying sorceress and her monstrous brood bent on destroying the slumbering knights of Alderley Edge.
by Benjamin Mee
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A grieving family risks everything to purchase a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside, embarking on a heartwarming and chaotic adventure of mending broken cages, taming wild animals, and healing their own hearts.
by Lisa Wingate
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A driven New York editor unearths a century-old manuscript detailing the forbidden love and hidden struggles of a mixed-race woman in Appalachia, forcing her to confront the mountain secrets and family ties she abandoned.
by Allan Folsom
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A relentless doctor, a haunted detective, and a shadowy cabal collide in a globe-spanning race to unravel a terrifying doomsday plot that blurs the lines between personal vengeance and global annihilation.
by Katherine Neville
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A woman from today and a 19th-century Albanian princess race against time and mysterious groups to find Charlemagne's legendary chess set before it falls into the wrong hands.
by Apostolos Doxiadis
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A mathematician's life unravels in his obsessive pursuit of Goldbach's Conjecture, only to find its beauty reflected through his nephew's eyes.
by Jamaica Kincaid
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In Antigua, a young girl's perfect world shatters when her mother becomes an adversary, forcing her to navigate adolescence and find herself.
by Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman blends science and poetry to explore our senses, from an Antarctic iceberg's breath to a perfumer's artistry, revealing how we perceive the world.
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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When mysterious letters reveal their adoption is a cover for a millennia-old time-traveling conspiracy, two teenagers find themselves at the heart of a cosmic battle for their very existence.
by John Steinbeck
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In a fertile California valley, a collection of eccentric families chase their American dreams, their lives intertwined with the land's rhythms and the subtle, often humorous, ironies of fate.
by Kat Richardson
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A newly-minted Greywalker PI must solve the murder of a researcher, battling both a vengeful poltergeist and a killer hiding in plain sight.
by Richard Matheson
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A modern playwright, haunted by a vintage photograph, wills himself into the past to find the Victorian actress he is destined to love, defying time for a romance that transcends centuries.
by Bertolt Brecht
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In a world where goodness means death, a kind woman in Communist China creates a ruthless male alter ego to survive the people she tries to help.
by Luo Guanzhong
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After the Han dynasty collapsed, 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms' tells the story of nearly a century of civil war, showing how historical figures and events shaped the power struggles, strategies, and tragic fates of warlords battling to unite China.
by Margaret Atwood
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A journalist's Caribbean trip turns into a brutal test of power, sex, and survival amidst political trouble and personal collapse.
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Amidst the suffocating corruption and political decay of 1950s Peru, Santiago Zavala grapples with his father's complicity in a regime that shattered their nation, all while searching for the precise moment everything went irrevocably wrong.
by Simone Elkeles
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Sixteen-year-old Amy's life implodes when her mom remarries, her dog gets the neighbor's poodle pregnant, and a charmingly annoying new boy moves in, all while her actual boyfriend is serving in the Israeli army.
by Andrew Sean Greer
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Born an old man who ages backward, Max Tivoli repeatedly pursues the love of his life through the decades of turn-of-the-century San Francisco, each time a stranger to her as his body grows younger.
by David Morrell
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A Vietnam veteran's quiet journey through rural Kentucky explodes into a brutal war for survival when a small-town sheriff pushes him too far, unleashing the soldier within.
by Nikki Grimes
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Eighteen Bronx high school students, initially hiding behind indifference and anger, find that poetry helps them share their fears, loves, and tragedies, building unexpected empathy.
by Marie de France
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Knights fall for fairy queens, lovers become werewolves: Marie de France's collection of Breton tales explores desire and fate in the medieval imagination.
by Rick Yancey
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In the Canadian wilderness, a skeptical doctor faces the terrifying reality of the mythical Wendigo, a creature of endless hunger, making him question life, death, and what makes a monster.
by Danielle Steel
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A powerful businesswoman tries to fix decades of family estrangement during a luxurious Mediterranean yacht trip, only to find her children are making the same mistakes they criticized her for.
by James Scott
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In the brutal winter of 1897, a hardened midwife and her traumatized young son seek vengeance across the snow-covered New York wilderness, haunted by their slaughtered family.