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by George Bernard Shaw
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A quick-witted woman, Candida, navigates the affections of a passionate young poet and her socialist clergyman husband, challenging Victorian ideas of romance and home life.
by Ann Radcliffe
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In a ruined 18th-century French abbey, an orphan named Adeline finds sinister relics and faces a Marquis's advances, making her flee a past and present filled with violence and philosophical questions.
by Chelsea M. Cameron
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Two high school seniors with planned lives find their futures upended when an unexpected connection ignites in AP English, forcing them to question if love can truly wait.
by Anne C. Voorhoeve
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Torn from her family by the Kindertransport, a young German girl navigates the Blitz and discovers a new identity and an unexpected family amidst the chaos of wartime London.
by Roddy Doyle
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When a father of four eats his son's chocolate biscuit, a secret society of magical pranksters called the Gigglers starts a funny, rude, five-stage 'Giggler Treatment' to teach him a lesson.
by Kevin J. Anderson
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Mulder and Scully race to stop a series of radioactive obliterations, uncovering an otherworldly threat that could incinerate humanity.
by Tim Winton
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Abby, a young girl, forms a strong bond with a large blue groper named Blueback, learning about conservation and the ocean.
by John Galsworthy
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The Forsyte family navigates the early 20th century, where Victorian propriety clashes with new desires, threatening their world of wealth and social standing.
by Georges Bataille
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Amidst Europe's descent into fascism, a man's surreal odyssey through squalor, sadism, and drunken encounters mirrors civilization's collapse, blurring the lines between victimhood and the monstrous allure of power.
by Richard Peck
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In 1890s Bluff City, Blossom Culp, known for her made-up ability to see ghosts, faces a terrifying reality when her lie becomes truth, sending her as a spectral passenger onto the ill-fated Titanic.
by Barbara Wright
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In the racially charged summer of 1898, 11-year-old Moses navigates family secrets, generational divides, and the hope of Black empowerment in Wilmington, North Carolina. This hope is brutally shattered by a violent political coup that rewrites history.
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
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Eighteen-year-old Shabanu, already a mother and battling the rigid customs of her husband's household for her daughter's future, finds her world further upended by an illicit love affair within the ancient walls of a Lahore haveli.
by Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm examines the 'pathology of normalcy' in Western capitalism, showing how societal sickness isolates individuals and suggesting radical community-based solutions for mental health, love, and freedom.
by Sayed Kashua
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An Arab-Israeli lawyer's carefully built life falls apart due to jealousy and an identity crisis after he finds a love letter in his wife's handwriting, leading him to track down the letter's former owner.
by Sharon M. Draper
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When chaos threatens their school, a group of unlikely friends, led by the ostracized Arielle, must face their own problems and shattered views to stop a troubled classmate from a deadly act.
by Nicole Leigh Shepherd
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When a popular blonde and her surf-loving sister join the same soccer team, they face sibling rivalry, first crushes, and championship goals, learning if sisterhood can overcome all.
by B. Traven
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In the desolate mountains of Sonora, three American drifters strike gold, only to unearth a deeper vein of paranoia and greed that threatens to consume them all.
by Akira Yoshimura
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In a desolate Japanese fishing village where salt fires lure ships to their doom for plunder, a young boy uncovers a shipwreck's cargo that promises a terrifying retribution for his people's dark survival.
by Rebecca West
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Rebecca West travels through Yugoslavia before WWII, exploring its history, culture, and her own reflections to understand the Balkans' turbulent nature.
by Ann Tatlock
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In 1950s Illinois, an eleven-year-old girl fleeing abuse finds an unlikely protector in the eccentric, elderly former owner of her new home, as they both guard secrets that could either save or shatter their fragile peace.
by Sally J. Pla
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On a cross-country road trip to reunite with his injured war journalist father, a neurodivergent boy who likes predictability sets out to spot every bird on their shared 'someday' list, hoping to restore order to his changing world.
by Andy McNab
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A teenager on the run with his falsely accused ex-SAS grandfather must master covert operations to clear his family's name and rescue him from a shadowy traitor.
by Rachel DeWoskin
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Blinded by an accident, a once-overlooked teen must learn to navigate high school, adapt to new senses, and solve a classmate's suicide, all while dealing with her new visibility and searching for what makes life meaningful.
by M. Malone
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A former assassin, Noah Blake, struggles to keep his violent past hidden from the woman he loves, Lucia DeMarco, as her curiosity threatens to expose him and endanger them both, especially when she plans to go on a date with another man.