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by Victoria Lee
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A technopath survivor, born of undocumented immigrants, infiltrates a magical elite to fight for refugee rights, but finds his resolve challenged by the defense minister's captivating and dangerous son.
by Nancy Farmer
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Thirteen-year-old bard-in-training Jack plunges into a treacherous 790 AD Britain, battling unruly monks, ancient gods, and a menagerie of mythical creatures to rescue his sister from the Lady of the Lake, all while grappling with his own burgeoning, earthquake-inducing magic.
by Francis Fukuyama
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Fukuyama argues that the global spread of liberal democracy might mark humanity's ideological endpoint, exploring what this means for identity, conflict, and progress in a 'post-historical' world.
by David Lodge
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A pragmatic factory boss and an idealistic feminist academic clash over industrial efficiency and literary theory, only to find their worlds, and themselves, surprisingly intertwined.
by E.L. Doctorow
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In the shadow of his executed Communist parents, Daniel pieces together their passionate lives and tragic deaths, grappling with a nation's ideals fractured by Cold War paranoia and his own inheritance of purpose and pain.
by John Reed
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An American journalist's account of the ten days in 1917 when Petrograd exploded with revolution, soldiers and peasants united, and Lenin took power, changing history forever.
by Yukio Mishima
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In a Japan grappling with modernity, a charismatic young patriot, steeped in the samurai code, ignites a desperate terrorist plot to restore the Emperor's power and dismantle the industrialists he believes are corrupting the nation's soul.
by Robert Sharenow
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In Nazi-era Berlin, a young Jewish cartoonist wants to prove himself during rising persecution. He finds an unexpected way to self-discovery and family protection through boxing legend Max Schmeling, even as his hero's loyalties become dangerously unclear.
by Tamera Alexander
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In 1870s Colorado, a determined woman seeking to rein in her wayward brother finds her own independence challenged and her guarded heart reawakened by a mysterious inheritance and a U.S. Marshal grappling with his past.
by Simon Singh
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Explore the hidden mathematical brilliance in The Simpsons and Futurama, from pi to P vs. NP, revealing the clever minds behind Springfield's enduring humor.
by Orson Scott Card
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In a fractured America torn apart by a brutal civil war, a brilliant strategist must unite a nation on the brink of annihilation, forcing citizens to choose sides in a conflict that threatens to consume their world.
by Alice Hoffman
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As their last summer together ends, two friends find an unexpected adventure with a heartbroken mermaid in their local pool, who needs to find love before she evaporates in the August sun.
by Anya Seton
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An 18-year-old's dream of escaping rural life for luxury with a mysterious relative at his gothic upstate New York estate, Dragonwyck, quickly descends into a nightmare of dark secrets and terror.
by Liz Jensen
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A boy with many near-fatal accidents falls into a coma, leading a doctor to uncover dark secrets in his extraordinary life.
by Teresa Driscoll
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A wife's attempt to fix her marriage in a secluded Cornwall cottage becomes a chilling descent into paranoia as strange events and a haunting past blur the line between her sanity and a sinister, present danger.
by John R. Erickson
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Accused of a crime he didn't commit, Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, must sniff out the real killer and clear his good name before he's branded an outlaw for good.
by Amanda Hocking
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Torn between a brooding vampire and her brother's safety, Alice makes a devastating choice that affects both the supernatural and human worlds.
by Gary Paulsen
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A summer of outrageous farm escapades with his mischievous cousin Harris transforms a young boy's ordinary tenth year into a riotous, unforgettable adventure filled with heartwarming chaos and country charm.
by Vladimir Nabokov
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After his famous brother's death, a man tries to write his biography, uncovering hidden loves and elusive truths, while reflecting the intricate plots of the novels he seeks to understand.
by William Boyd
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In a civil war, a primate researcher uncovers truths about humanity's capacity for savagery and the blurred lines between ape and man.
by Tom McCarthy
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A corporate ethnographer, tasked with writing a report on our era, finds himself lost in data, cargo cults, and oil spills, questioning truth and meaning in a world of screens and unclear stories.
by Premacanda
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by Victoria Holt
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Swept into a whirlwind romance under the mystical allure of the Black Forest's Seventh Moon, a young woman's dream quickly sours into a chilling nightmare when ancient legends bleed into her terrifying reality.
by Stephen Baxter
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A global flood consumes continents, forcing former hostages to navigate a drowning world, searching for answers beyond climate change as humanity struggles for survival on shrinking high ground.