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by Rosemary Sutcliff
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After his home is destroyed and his family lost during Roman Britain's collapse, a young man finds a new purpose as a guardian against the Saxon invasion.
by William Shakespeare
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Venus desires Adonis, who prefers hunting, leading to a tragic pursuit that leaves her with a flower and a prophecy of future sorrow.
by Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Arthur de Caldicot, squire to Lord Stephen, navigates knighthood, forbidden love, and a quest for his true family, all as medieval England prepares for the Crusades.
by George Johnston
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Two brothers from suburban Melbourne navigate success and integrity in a changing Australia, each representing a different idea of the Australian male.
by Michael Morpurgo
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In 1907, on the stormy Scilly Isles, fourteen-year-old Laura records her wish to join a shipwreck rescue in her diary. Her wish comes true when the sea brings a wreck to her shores.
by Carol Ann Lee
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Carol Ann Lee identifies Anne Frank's betrayer, showing a disturbing, long-term link between Otto Frank and the informant that lasted until his death, while also revealing Frank's hidden life through his secret journal.
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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A multi-generational story of a Ugandan clan's struggle to outrun a 1750 curse, making them face tradition against modern life.
by Dennis Cooper
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In a world of inherited secrets and high artifice, a narrator searches for the truth behind 'the marbled swarm,' a language key to generations of coercion hidden beneath French aristocracy.
by Lauren St. John
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When a school trip to witness the Sardine Run turns into a shipwreck, Martine finds herself marooned on a deserted island with her classmates, battling the elements and a mysterious threat to the dolphins who saved them.
by Zizou Corder
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A ten-year-old boy, who can talk to cats, travels the world to rescue his kidnapped scientist parents and find out why they disappeared.
by Lesslie Newbigin
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Lesslie Newbigin helps Christians understand modern pluralism, offering a way to share and live the gospel confidently amid different worldviews, cultural relativism, and secularism.
by Jerome Lawrence
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Henry David Thoreau's night in jail for refusing to pay a tax starts a debate about civil disobedience and the individual's moral duty to break unfair laws.
by Wendelin Van Draanen
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When twelve-year-old Sammy Keyes treks to Hollywood to confront her elusive mother, she uncovers a shocking new identity, a glamorous masquerade gone terribly wrong, and the biggest mystery of her young life.
by Heidi R. Kling
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After a personal tragedy and a national disaster, a grieving teen finds unexpected love with an Indonesian orphan. Their dangerous journey forces them to face hard truths about their pasts.
by Olive Schreiner
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In 19th-century South Africa, a young woman dreams of freedom from strict social and religious rules on a desolate farm.
by Lawrence Block
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Matthew Scudder investigates the murder of an upscale couple and the subsequent killer-suicide, suspecting a clever mastermind is still at large and just beginning his deadly performance.
by A.J. Kazinski
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A cynical detective, tasked with protecting Denmark's 'good people' from a global assassin targeting the righteous, must overcome his own jaded view of humanity and team up with a grieving astrophysicist to stop the final two murders of the legendary '36 Just Men' before the world plunges into chaos.
by Karen Rose
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A child's harrowing escape from an abusive stepfather ignites a dangerous quest for vengeance, forcing a guarded doctor and a protective coach to confront their own dark pasts while shielding him from a relentless killer.
by Mark Walden
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Otto and Raven must infiltrate the Glasshouse, a high-tech assassin prison, to rescue their friends from Anastasia Furan, all while Otto evades American intelligence and confronts the consequences of his villainous life.
by Louise Penny
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In the quiet village of Three Pines, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache uncovers the darkness beneath its charming surface when a beloved resident is murdered on Thanksgiving Sunday.
by K.L. Going
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A grieving girl who scoffs at fairy tales finds herself drawn into a spectral apple orchard where a mysterious, unseen tree offers a magical, perilous path to understanding loss and the enduring power of life.
by Charles Boardman Hawes
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Fleeing for his life, young Philip Marsham escapes 17th-century London only to be swept into a perilous new existence as an unwilling pirate aboard the 'Rose of Devon,' battling treacherous seas and even more treacherous men.
by Vladimir Nabokov
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A lovelorn Russian émigré, desperate to impress a woman and escape a life of perceived insignificance, embarks on a quixotic and ultimately tragic quest to illegally re-enter the Soviet Union.
by John Fowles
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A novelist with amnesia struggles against his seductive muse, who may be his doctor, in a playful look at art, identity, and storytelling.