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by Doris Lessing
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A Cambridge professor's mind fractures, sending him from a mental asylum into a cosmic journey that blurs madness, myth, and reality.
by Joan Lowery Nixon
4.0(1,833)
Thirteen-year-old Frances disguises herself as a boy and journeys across the 1850s American West to reunite her siblings after their widowed mother places them on an orphan train.
by Rebecca Roanhorse
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When her father vanishes, a young Navajo girl with a new ability to see monsters must embrace her heritage and battle ancient evils across the American Southwest, helped by disguised Holy People and facing trials that test nature itself.
by Jean Merrill
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In 1960s Cleveland, a sixth-grader's quest to save on toothpaste unexpectedly becomes a million-dollar empire, showing that ingenuity and basic math can conquer the market.
by Karen Hesse
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In 1924 Vermont, the Ku Klux Klan shatters a quiet town, forcing a Black girl, a Jewish girl, and their neighbors to face hatred and find strength in unexpected friendships.
by Colin Higgins
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A young man obsessed with death finds joy in life through an unlikely romance with an eccentric, life-loving older woman.
by Derrick Jensen
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Derrick Jensen connects early 20th-century American lynchings to modern South American death squads, showing the 'make-believe' that underpins our civilization.
by Fletcher Knebel
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A Marine colonel uncovers a plot by a general to overthrow the U.S. government, leaving the President seven days to stop a military coup and save American democracy.
by Joan Bauer
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Twelve-year-old Tree, a towering six-foot-three but internally adrift after his parents' divorce and athletic failures, finds his true strength by helping his amputee Vietnam vet grandfather and a new girl navigate their own challenges.
by Lori Roy
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A young girl's forbidden midnight quest into a rival family's well unearths a generations-old curse and a chilling connection to her aunt's dark past in a suspenseful Southern Gothic tale of secrets, lavender fields, and impending doom.
by H.E. Bates
4.0(1,815)
A tax clerk discovers freedom and joy when he falls for a country family's unconventional, fun-loving charm.
by Cathleen Schine
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A happily divorced bookstore owner in a charming New England town finds her content life upended by an anonymous, passionate love letter that sparks a town-wide quest for its secret author.
by Paula Yoo
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A Korean-American overachiever struggles to reconcile her parents' Ivy League dreams and strict rules with her love for a trumpet player and her musical passions outside of classical violin.
by Eric Kahn Gale
4.0(1,811)
When a cryptic, hand-bound book detailing every bully and victim in his middle school falls into Eric's hands, he must decode its secrets to stop a sinister plot from unfolding before he becomes the next target.
by Pepper Winters
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A woman's perfect life shatters when she is abducted and sold, becoming bound to the man who owns her.
by Jay Northcote
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A university student's world is upended when his out-and-proud flatmate sparks a confusing, intense crush, forcing him to confront his sexuality and navigate the treacherous line between friendship and a love he never expected.
by Jeff Menapace
4.0(1,806)
Deep in the treacherous Florida Everglades, a writer's research trip devolves into a desperate fight for survival as his group witnesses a brutal crime and becomes prey to both the deadly wildlife and vengeful human hunters.
by Howard Pyle
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Join Robin Hood and his men as they outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham and King John, robbing from the rich to give to the poor in a series of escapades through Sherwood Forest.
by Sherri Hayes
4.3(1,805)
A grieving detective, facing his daughter's caregivers' move, finds an unexpected second chance at love and family with his brother's girlfriend's sister, a woman trying to outrun her own past.
by Veronica Roth
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Two years after a betrayal, Tobias Eaton races to expose an Erudite plot and protect his faction, while navigating a dangerous connection with a mysterious new initiate, Tris Prior.
by Lesley Pearse
4.0(1,803)
Sent to Australia after their parents' death, two sisters must navigate betrayal and find the courage to trust again, especially when one of them finds solace and hope in an unexpected romance.
by Anna Davies
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An island girl, haunted by loss and drawn to a mysterious boy, finds herself in a forbidden romance. She discovers his secrets are as deep and dangerous as the sea.
by Clifford Chase
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A forgotten teddy bear's quest for freedom in the woods thrusts him into a Kafkaesque nightmare, as he's mistaken for a terrorist mastermind and put on trial by a society consumed by post-9/11 paranoia.
by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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From a maximum-security prison, Jimmy Santiago Baca builds hope and poetic strength, turning despair into an example of human endurance.