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by Meg Cabot
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A small-town girl nicknamed Jinx, plagued by a lifetime of misfortune, discovers her "bad luck" might actually be a powerful, life-saving magic when she uncovers her glamorous New York cousin's dark secret.
by Thomas Mullen
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During the 1918 flu pandemic, a guard in an isolated Pacific Northwest mill town turns away a sick soldier, sparking a moral crisis that threatens to destroy the community's utopian ideals.
by Paul O'Prey
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A priest's efforts to reform a marquis's corrupt rural estate lead to tragedy amid sexual intrigue, political schemes, and gothic naturalism in 19th-century Spain.
by Aurora Rose Reynolds
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A powerful CEO, accustomed to claiming what he desires, becomes instantly obsessed with a bakery window and will stop at nothing to make her his.
by Nicci French
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A brilliant scientist's life unravels into obsession and terror after a single glance at a charismatic stranger pulls her into a love affair as intoxicating as it is deadly.
by Nicolas Barreau
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A heartbroken Parisian restaurateur finds her life in a mysterious novel and goes on a charming search for the author she believes saved her.
by Elizabeth Lim
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To save her beloved captain from the clutches of the Underworld's king, a disguised Mulan must brave the treacherous Diyu and confront her own secrets before sunrise, or risk losing Shang and her freedom forever.
by Sharon Creech
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Amidst the comforting aroma of Granny Torrelli's soup and her interwoven tales, twelve-year-old Rosie learns to mend the tangled threads of friendship and understand the deeper flavors of life.
by Erin Bow
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In a world where peace relies on sacrificing royal children, a young duchess, held hostage and prepared for death, finds her future changed by a defiant boy who challenges the brutal system.
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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A teenage girl named Kali lives a bizarre double life, alternating between ordinary high school drama and an instinct-driven existence as a demon-hunter, forcing her to confront her true nature when a friend is marked for supernatural death.
by Tiffany McDaniel
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In the summer of 1984, an Ohio town's invitation to the devil brings a mysterious boy named Sal, whose presence reveals the community's deepest fears and the true nature of good and evil.
by Eric Lomax
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A former POW, haunted by the brutal torture he endured on the Burma-Siam Railway during WWII, embarks on a remarkable journey of healing and reconciliation when he confronts one of his Japanese tormentors five decades later.
by Helen DeWitt
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A child prodigy, raised on ancient languages and Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai,' looks for his absent father, forcing him to balance his ordered intellectual world with the messy realities of human emotion.
by Eliza Crewe
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A snarky, soul-eating teen who preys only on the deserving is caught between mysterious figures who want her dead and an elite group of crusaders, forcing her to confront her true nature and a darker destiny.
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Douglas R. Hofstadter explores the 'strange loop' of self, arguing that consciousness comes from the paradoxical, self-referential feedback in our brains, where an abstract 'I' appears to defy the particles that create it.
by William Trevor
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A child's desperate act to preserve her idyllic Irish life unravels into a lifetime of misunderstanding and unspoken grief, forever altering the fates of those she loves.
by Leah Stewart
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A research assistant, tasked by her deceased boss to deliver a mysterious package, embarks on a reluctant journey to confront the ghost of her intense, long-lost teenage friendship.
by Ben Elton
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A nihilistic spree killer kidnaps a self-important Hollywood director, forcing him to confront the real-world consequences of his violent art as their hostage crisis becomes a twisted, live-broadcasted spectacle.
by Peter Abrahams
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In the quiet town of Echo Falls, a young girl named Ingrid, juggling soccer, school, and the lead in 'Alice in Wonderland,' connects her missing shoes to a murder, forcing her to investigate the mystery before she becomes the next victim.
by Taylor Anderson
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When a WWII destroyer sails into an inexplicable squall, its crew finds themselves stranded in a primeval alternate world where intelligent dinosaurs and giant reptiles wage war, forcing them to choose sides in a conflict that could reshape history itself.
by Robert Stone
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A journalist's bad plan to smuggle heroin from Vietnam to California traps him and his wife in a cycle of betrayal, violence, and drug-fueled paranoia.
by James Riley
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A bored boy discovers his classmate can jump into books, propelling them both into a perilous quest through fictional worlds to find her missing character-father and save his favorite series from unraveling.
by Shannon Messenger
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As Sophie and her friends expose years of lies, they find their shared past holds the key to a coming conspiracy, making them question every alliance until they no longer know who to trust.
by Conor Kostick
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In a future where all conflict is resolved within a ubiquitous fantasy MMORPG, a young man seeking revenge for his parents' mistreatment dares to break the game's rules, potentially unraveling society's entire digital tyranny.