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by James Ponti
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Thirteen-year-old Molly Bigelow discovers her mom is a legendary zombie hunter, thrusting her into a secret world where she must patrol the undead streets of New York City and follow in some seriously spooky footsteps.
by James Alexander Thom
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Born under a shooting star, Tecumseh, the 'Panther in the Sky,' unites the Shawnee nation and leads a desperate fight to keep their ancestral lands and way of life from white settlers.
by Tove Jansson
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Two aging artists navigate decades of intertwined lives through shared studios, solitary islands, and the American Southwest, transforming contentment into hard-won love and surprising discovery.
by Timothy Ferris
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Explore millennia of cosmic discovery, as brilliant and often rebellious astronomers challenged old ideas and revealed the universe's design, from Ptolemy's spheres to quantum space.
by Marilyn Kaye
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Born with a pig's snout due to an ancient curse, a reclusive heiress navigates superficial suitors and a world eager to exploit her, finding freedom and self-acceptance when she ventures out on her own.
by Kiese Laymon
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A YouTube-famous teen in post-Katrina Mississippi unravels a time-bending mystery involving a disappearing girl, a stolen laptop, and a cryptic book that links his present to alternate versions of himself battling the Klan in the past.
by Neil A. Campbell
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Explore the world of life through the basic ideas and experiments that have taught millions of students about biology.
by Nadeem Aslam
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In an English town, two lovers disappear, uncovering a family's strict traditions and the painful clash between faith and forbidden desire.
by G.K. Chesterton
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In a future London held back by rules, a new King starts a medieval revival, leading one man to defend Notting Hill with his own army, turning the city into a battleground.
by Lois Duncan
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When a school fair's fortune-telling act grants 17-year-old Sarah actual prophetic visions, she finds herself terrifyingly re-enacting the Salem witch trials with her classmates as accusers.
by Ferdinand de Saussure
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Saussure's posthumous work revealed language's hidden structure, breaking from historical linguistics and starting structuralism, which changed how we understand signs, systems, and meaning.
by William S. Burroughs
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In a universe where psychic parasites prey on humanity, Inspector Lee of the Nova Police must dismantle the reality-warping word machine of the Nova Criminals before they unleash ultimate destruction.
by Khushwant Singh
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Through the eyes of an aging man and his hijra lover, Khushwant Singh's "Delhi" shows centuries of a city's history, filled with sultans, saints, and seduction.
by Robin Lee Graham
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A 16-year-old sails solo around the world in a 24-foot sloop, finding love, fatherhood, and self-discovery over five years and 33,000 miles of ocean.
by Young
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Four years after a tragic incident separated them, an ordinary Indiana girl studying abroad in Edinburgh unexpectedly reunites with the extraordinary boy who once pulled her into the deep, forcing them to confront their past and the dangerous spark that still exists between them.
by Catherine Mann
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A haunted pararescueman, seeking oblivion in high-stakes missions, finds his greatest danger and unexpected healing in the independent woman he's compelled to rescue.
by Irene Hunt
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An abused young boy, escaping into a secret world of rose gardens, learns to give and receive love when a small rosebush and a new home help him blossom.
by John Banville
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An unmasked Cambridge spy, an art expert to the Queen, faces his past, revealing a life of deception and desire. He betrayed his country, family, and himself, searching for the truth of his downfall.
by Alison Pick
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As Nazi propaganda consumes Czechoslovakia, a Jewish family's fight for survival hinges on the loyalty of their governess, whose own secret affair with a betrayer threatens to unravel their last hope.
by Ross Welford
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A boy with a vintage time machine and a hamster named Alan Shearer travels to the 1980s to save his father, even if it means changing history.
by Richard Powers
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Three mixed-race siblings, raised with music and a dream of transcending identity, find their lives separating as one becomes an activist, another faces racial stereotypes in opera, and the third tries to hold their fractured family together.
by Isak Dinesen
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Dinesen's debut collection blends aristocratic boredom with the macabre, telling stories of doomed romance, supernatural events, and deep psychological insight, all in a 19th-century Gothic style.
by Bentley Little
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A luxurious desert spa becomes a nightmarish trap where disappearing guests and monstrous entities in the pool are just part of the 'relaxation' package.
by Pat Walsh
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In 1347, an orphan apprentice monk uncovers a buried angel, a talking goblin, and a dangerous world of Old Magic, all while two cloaked strangers hunt for answers within the abbey walls.