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by Nathanael West
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A cynical reporter struggles with his advice column, facing the absurd pleas of readers and the grotesque realities of Hollywood's broken promises, while a disillusioned artist confronts similar issues.
by Thomas Sowell
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Sowell shows the shared cultural roots of Southern 'rednecks' and some Black communities, arguing that well-meaning white liberals hurt these communities by defending a destructive subculture.
by Ashley Antoinette
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Disaya Morgan's carefully built double life falls apart when her secret hustle clashes with a dangerous love, proving that in her high-stakes game, every player eventually loses.
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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An orphan girl, stripped of her wealth and sent to an attic, uses her imagination to turn her bleak life into a kingdom, showing that true strength comes from within.
by John Norman
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Abducted from Earth, Tarl Cabot is thrust into the brutal, caste-bound world of Counter-Earth to be forged into a Tarnsman, a warrior whose destiny is intertwined with the planet's violent traditions.
by James Ramsey Ullman
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A determined Swiss boy climbs the unconquered Citadel, the same dangerous mountain that killed his father, to honor his memory and plant his own banner in the sky.
by Penny Vincenzi
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A catastrophic motorway accident in 1950s summer heat connects strangers, uncovering secrets, love, and betrayals that span generations.
by Mark Owens
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Abandoning civilization, two young scientists brave the unforgiving beauty and brutal realities of the Kalahari, forging an intimate, dangerous bond with its iconic wildlife amidst a landscape sculpted by drought, fire, and storm.
by Scott Cawthon
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Haunted by the animatronic horrors of her past, Charlie is dragged back into a nightmarish hunt when new, twisted creations begin to stalk her, blurring the lines between memory and a terrifying, inescapable present.
by Young
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A grieving journalist's disturbing visions propel her into a Louisiana family's dark, thirty-year-old mystery of lost children, betrayal, and murder.
by Charlie Higson
4.4(4,033)
In a London full of flesh-eating adults, teens at the Natural History Museum search for a cure, but find the real enemy is more dangerous than the 'sickos' they fight.
by Hitomi Kanehara
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Nineteen-year-old Lui enters Tokyo's underground, changing her body with a forked tongue and dragon tattoo while navigating a dangerous love triangle that blurs the lines between pain and pleasure.
by William H. McNeill
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McNeill shows how disease, from smallpox to plague, has shaped human civilization and history.
by K.A. Applegate
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Five ordinary teens are thrust into an intergalactic war, secretly morphing into animals to fight parasitic alien slugs bent on enslaving humanity from within.
by Thomas Merton
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Merton explores the paradox of spiritual existence, showing how true solitude leads to connection, and love must be shared to last.
by Beth Revis
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Haunted by delusions of time travel and the suicide of the girl he loves, a young man journeys through his own mind to save her, even if it means losing himself to the madness he fights.
by H.P. Lovecraft
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A crumbling Rhode Island mansion, avoided for centuries, slowly reveals its horrifying secret: an ancient, protoplasmic evil that consumes all who dare to uncover its truth.
by Camilla Gibb
3.9(4,020)
In contemporary Hanoi, a Vietnamese American art curator seeks her dissident father's past, a pho seller guards secrets of artistic rebellion, and a tour guide navigates their country's present. They come together in a story of loss, legacy, and the unexpected bonds that heal a nation's lingering scars.
by William Godwin
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A young secretary unearths his aristocratic employer's dark secret, only to become the victim of a relentless and tyrannical persecution that exposes the corrupt hierarchies of 18th-century England.
by Ismail Kadare
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Haunted by an ancient blood feud, a young Albanian man's thirty-day reprieve after avenging his brother's death becomes a poignant dance with destiny as a curious honeymooning couple from the city inadvertently stumble into the fatal mechanism of his impending demise.
by Patrick Carman
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Young Leo, the maintenance man's son, must decipher a series of eccentric puzzles and navigate the secret floors of the wondrous Whippet Hotel to save its future and his own.
by Stuart Gibbs
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Accused of koala-napping after a prank goes awry, Teddy Fitzroy must clear his name and find the real culprit before he's locked up for a crime he didn't commit at the world's most unusual zoo.
by Jodi Picoult
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A baker grappling with her own grief confronts the unimaginable when an elderly friend, a seemingly kind man, confesses his Nazi past and asks her to help him die, forcing her to choose between justice and mercy.
by Elliot Perlman
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A recently paroled street sweeper in Manhattan forms a bond with an Auschwitz survivor, while a historian uncovers a past connecting their lives and the echoes of history.