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by James A. Michener
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When a small-town tragedy affects a novelist, his editor, a critic, and a reader become involved in a fight for truth amid corporate takeovers and the act of creation itself.
by Sheila O'Connor
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Twelve-year-old Raine moves to a rundown mansion full of artists and uncovers its mysterious past, only to find a life-changing truth about her own family.
by Enid Blyton
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Four children and a clever parrot find their desert river cruise transformed into a perilous quest when their guardian vanishes, trapping them in a 7,000-year-old forgotten temple.
by John Barth
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On a single day, a lawyer considers suicide, weighing the absurdities of life and past events aboard a showboat.
by Sheila A. Nielson
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Haunted by a mermaid's song and appearances, Adrianne must decide if the creature wants to save her family from starvation or pull her sister into the ocean.
by Charles Sheehan-Miles
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A brilliant academic's perfect life shatters under the weight of a jealous rival, her husband's wartime trauma, and a catastrophic accident, forcing an impossible choice that will redefine love and sacrifice in their final hour.
by Marguerite Duras
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In this raw memoir, Marguerite Duras reveals the Nazi occupation of Paris, showing the harrowing intimacy of survival, resistance, and personal sacrifice through nursing her emaciated husband back from Bergen-Belsen and her dangerous connection with a Gestapo officer.
by Ignazio Silone
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In Fascist Italy, a disguised revolutionary navigates a treacherous world of desperate peasants, cynical priests, and brutal ideologues, battling the regime's assault on body and mind.
by Derek Walcott
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Like a Caribbean *Odyssey*, *Omeros* shows the visible scars of colonialism and slavery alongside the invisible epic of individual exile and longing, mapping a sea of memory and identity.
by Dalene Matthee
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In the ancient Knysna Forest, a young woodcutter's life intertwines with the fate of a magnificent elephant herd, as their world clashes with humanity's greed for timber and ivory.
by Jeffrey Archer
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From the squalor of a medium-security prison, disgraced politician FF8282 navigates the daily degradations and unexpected camaraderie of incarceration, offering a raw and often darkly humorous glimpse into the British penal system.
by Paulo Coelho
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In a quiet village, a legendary archer teaches a young boy that true mastery is not just about hitting the target, but about a steady spirit, brave choices, and daily practice on the path to self-discovery.
by Justin Evans
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An American teen at an elite British boarding school gets caught in a centuries-old mystery about Lord Byron, where past and present collide with deadly results.
by Kit Frick
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A summer nanny's eerie resemblance to a missing Hamptons girl spirals into a murder confession, leaving a true-crime podcaster to unearth if she's the killer or just a pawn in a deeper mystery.
by Thomas Sowell
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Thomas Sowell explains how modern intellectuals, despite often being wrong, subtly influence democratic societies by shaping public opinion rather than directly advising rulers, making them a powerful but unaccountable force.
by Stephen Coonts
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A rogue Russian general sells four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group planning to ignite a holy war in America. Ex-CIA operative Jake Grafton races to stop the apocalypse, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power.
by Young
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A young soul eater, haunted by hunger and a prophecy about her first kill, finds her monstrous fate challenged by a new boy's humanity, only to learn his betrayal might make her choose between revenge and redemption.
by Jeff VanderMeer
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In the bioluminescent depths of Veniss, a city both wondrous and grotesque, a desperate artist, his searching twin, and her tormented lover descend into a spiraling nightmare of living art, parasitic gods, and body-altering fungi, all to reclaim what they've lost to the city's beautiful, horrifying embrace.
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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A child star with telepathic abilities escapes her controlling father, only to uncover a conspiracy involving her presumed-dead mother and the true source of her powers.
by Leonard Gardner
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In 1960s Stockton, California, two boxers, one a veteran and one new, face their dreams and realities, finding fleeting hope and inevitable despair with every punch.
by Langston Hughes
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In 1930s Kansas, young Sandy Rogers navigates adolescence and racial division, finding strength and identity through his mother's labor and his father's search for work.
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Haunted by an unspeakable paternal love, Mathilda navigates a world that shuns her, forever scarred by the incestuous passion that shattered her innocence and isolated her from society.
by Cornelia Funke
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When a clumsy reindeer crash-lands Santa's sleigh, he finds himself on a modern Earth, needing the help of two resourceful children to outwit a greedy villain determined to commercialize Christmas forever.
by Grace Lin
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In the Year of the Rat, Pacy deals with a new baby sister, her best friend moving, and finding her place, all while learning to accept changes that come with growing up Asian American.