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by Theodore Dreiser
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In a society quick to judge, Jennie Gerhardt finds love and motherhood outside of marriage, her compassion clashing with the era's strict moral code.
by Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm explores the origins of human violence, arguing against both instinctual and behavioral explanations, to show how society and psychology can turn our potential for good into destructive acts.
by Kate Brian
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Haunted by a fiery past and relentless adversaries, Reed fights to resurrect her beloved boarding school from literal and metaphorical ashes, all while a sinister legacy threatens to consume her and the remaining Billings girls.
by Corban Addison
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A desperate family's round-the-world sailing trip collides with a Somali pirate's quest for vengeance and an FBI negotiator's past, igniting a global crisis where survival hinges on confronting buried truths.
by Vera Nazarian
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On the alien world of Atlantis, an awkward Earth-nerd with a powerful voice must navigate deadly games, treacherous alliances, and an impending cosmic war to save her loved ones and two planets, all before her wedding day.
by David Lodge
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A Catholic literature graduate student struggles with the gap between academic theory and his growing family in pre-Pill London.
by Arthur Schnitzler
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Trapped by her family's financial ruin, Fräulein Else confronts the shattering cost of virtue and society's predatory gaze in a desperate bid to save her father.
by Tess Oliver
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In a world of strict societal rules, a young woman's life hunting werewolves takes a dangerous turn when her latest scientific 'specimen' sparks an forbidden passion, making her choose between love and humanity as he changes into the monster she hunts.
by Yasmine Galenorn
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A vampire jian-tu, Menolly D'Artigo, balances a promise ceremony with two world-ending threats, uniting her witch and werecat sisters against an ancient necromancer and the Lord of Ghosts to save Earthside and Otherworld from war.
by Ngugi wa Thiongo
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In the fantastical Free Republic of Aburiria, a tyrannical ruler's quest for ultimate power clashes with an unemployed man who unexpectedly wields the magic of the 'Wizard of the Crow,' igniting a battle for the very soul of a nation.
by Alan Duff
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In the brutal, impoverished world of a Maori shantytown, Beth Heke must find the strength to transcend her husband's violence and the crushing despair of her community to forge a new path for her children.
by S.E. Hinton
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Jamie Sommers, an orphan and lifelong sinner, used to the world's dark corners, faces an unimaginable evil in Hawkes Harbor that threatens his sanity and cursed existence.
by Shauna Singh Baldwin
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In India's 1947 Partition era, two wives in a wealthy Sikh household, one barren and one young, navigate duty, desire, and destiny as their lives reflect the fracturing nation.
by Gordon Korman
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On the run from the FBI, a killer, and the entire nation, Aiden and Meg Falconer must find evidence to clear their wrongly imprisoned parents.
by Edna Ferber
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In a land as vast and untamed as the Texas it depicts, a spirited Virginia socialite marries a powerful cattle baron, only to discover their love is tested by searing heat, immense wealth, entrenched racism, and the shift from cattle to oil that defines a changing era.
by Anna McPartlin
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After a sudden tragedy ends her life with her childhood sweetheart, a witty Dubliner must navigate grief, friendship, and new connections to find the courage to live again.
by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
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When the boy who baked the world's most perfect apple tarts disappears and everyone thinks he's dead, his best friend and little brother search for the truth, showing that even in deep sadness, hope is a strong force.
by Ben Bova
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A scientist, embedded by a religious group to disprove alien life on Jupiter's ocean, faces a crisis of faith and duty when he finds the intelligence he was sent to deny.
by Franklin W. Dixon
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The Hardy Boys chase a self-styled pirate king from Bayport to a Caribbean stronghold, uncovering his role in museum thefts and the "Empire of the Twisted Claw."
by Beverly Jenkins
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In 1850s Michigan, an independent Underground Railroad conductor dedicated to freeing others finds her heart drawn to an arrogant but captivating fellow conductor with a price on his head, as they navigate danger, deception, and desire on the path to freedom and love.
by Sidney Sheldon
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In Sidney Sheldon's "Bloodline," a resilient heiress must navigate a viper's nest of avaricious relatives and an unseen assassin to save her family's empire from collapse after her father's suspicious death.
by S.A. Bodeen
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Haunted by their escape from an underground bunker, Eli and his family grapple with a world that wants answers and the chilling realization that their past may still be watching them.
by Freya North
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Seventeen years after their first love, a London jeweler and a reclusive rock-and-roller reunite, forcing them to confront the secrets that have kept them both from moving on.
by Palagummi Sainath
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Through vivid, on-the-ground reporting, Sainath exposes the absurdities and failures of India's development policies, revealing the human cost behind the statistics of poverty and displacement.