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by Wilkie Collins
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Driven by intuition and love, Valeria searches across continents to prove her husband's innocence, three years after a 'Not Proven' murder verdict left him in legal and social limbo.
by Karen Kincy
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In a town where shapeshifting is a death sentence, Gwen's secret life as an owl becomes entangled with a serial killer targeting Others and a seductive fox-spirit who challenges everything she thought she knew about love and loyalty.
by J.G. Farrell
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In 1939 Singapore, a ruthless rubber merchant and his family hold onto their colonial dream as war approaches, threatening their privileged world.
by Michael Carroll
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Four millennia after the world's first immortal, mind-reading superhuman enslaved nations, a disparate group of young heroes with burgeoning powers must unite to prevent his return and a new era of global tyranny.
by Wendell Berry
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On a single September day in 1952, an aging Kentucky farmer, Old Jack Beechum, sifts through his life's memories, showing the lasting spirit and values tied to the land and its people.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Paul Revere's legendary ride, brought to life with art and historical detail, inspires a new generation with the spirit of American independence.
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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In 19th-century Poland, a Jewish-Gentile magician known for his escapes and illicit affairs grapples with the ultimate trick: shedding his past, his faith, and his many loves to find true freedom.
by Wendelin Van Draanen
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When a Halloween prank involving a 'skeleton man' and 'Frankenstein' turns into a real mystery with everyone hiding secrets, junior high detective Sammy Keyes must uncover the truth while keeping her own tricks up her sleeve.
by Kelly Barnhill
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Sent to a peculiar Iowa town, an ordinary boy named Jack discovers he's the reluctant center of an ancient magical prophecy, hunted by a powerful foe, and the key to mending a community's broken past.
by Marguerite Duras
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In the steamy heat of Indochina, a French girl's illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese man becomes a raw, unvarnished exploration of forbidden desire and the harsh realities that forged a legendary writer.
by D.H. Lawrence
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In a quiet English village, a sheltered rector's daughter finds her desires awakened by a charismatic gipsy, before a catastrophic flood shatters her world and unleashes forbidden passion.
by Yasutaka Tsutsui
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When a device blurs the line between shared dreams and waking reality, a psychotherapist's alter ego, Paprika, navigates a surreal world of escalating madness to prevent the unraveling of the human mind.
by Melissa Andrea
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Blinded by tragedy and stifled by a sheltered life, a former dancer finds a new world of light and love when a rebel enters her darkness.
by Da Chen
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In a memoir of resilience and mischievous defiance, Da Chen navigates the brutal Cultural Revolution in rural China, transforming the scorn of his 'landlord' heritage into a quest for education and a hopeful future.
by Ryan Daniel Moran
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Transform a product idea into a million-dollar business in 12 months with this direct guide to strategic execution and growth.
by Mary Webb
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In 19th-century Shropshire, a disfigured woman with a luminous spirit navigates poverty, ambition, and suspicion to find love and true beauty.
by Craig Thompson
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In an allegorical world, two enslaved children escape their past to find love, freedom, and the meaning of 'habibi' through Quranic tales.
by C.G. Jung
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Jung explores the symbolic language of dreams, connecting them to alchemy and personal change.
by Jim Crace
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In a desolate, post-apocalyptic America, where civilization has fallen and a toxic landscape forces a dangerous eastward migration, a man with a crippled knee and a feverish woman form an unexpected love as they trek through ruins, evading slavers and strange cults in a desperate search for passage to Europe.
by Beth Hilgartner
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Disguised as a choirboy within the walls of a Yorkshire cathedral, eleven-year-old Alice Tuckfield must outwit Queen Elizabeth's agents to uncover her father's murderers and save herself.
by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Galbraith criticizes classical economics, showing how an affluent society still focuses on scarcity, creating artificial desires while neglecting public good for private spending.
by Roberto Bolaño
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by A.J. Cronin
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In 1920s China, a Scottish priest finds spiritual triumph despite civil war, plague, and church disapproval.
by Donna Tartt
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Under their charismatic Classics professor's influence, a group of eccentric Hampden College students fall into a world of ancient rituals, moral ambiguity, and murder.