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by Yoru Sumino
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A solitary high school boy finds his popular classmate's secret diary and learns she has a terminal pancreatic illness, making him the only one outside her family who knows. Their lives become intertwined during her last months.
by Gautam Malkani
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In "Londonstani," Jas navigates a complex world of cultural identity, street gangs, and forbidden love, trying to define himself amid clashing expectations and the harsh realities of a divided city.
by J.J. Connolly
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A smooth-talking London cocaine dealer, aiming for early retirement, finds his exit from the criminal underworld unraveling into a deadly 'layer cake' of double-crosses, neo-Nazis, and a missing socialite, forcing him to become a hitman just to survive.
by H.E. Bates
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In WWII Occupied France, an injured English pilot and a brave French farm girl find their lives entwined by war and an unexpected love.
by Will Durant
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Durant’s "Story of Civilization" is an eleven-volume series that covers human history from ancient Mesopotamia to the Napoleonic era, detailing the rise and fall of empires, philosophies, and the evolution of art and science.
by Lee Child
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An ex-military drifter returns to his old unit's headquarters to meet a captivating voice, only to be charged with a 16-year-old murder and forcibly reinstated into the army. His nostalgic visit quickly becomes a fight for freedom and survival.
by Caroline Miller
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In the unforgiving antebellum Georgia wilderness, a tenacious young woman named Cean carves out a life of love and loss, enduring fourteen births, five burials, and the relentless brutality of nature and history itself.
by Christopher Paul Curtis
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In 1901 Michigan, the unlikely friendship between a Black boy and a white boy from neighboring towns blossoms as they uncover the truth behind the mysterious 'Madman of Piney Woods' haunting their shared forest.
by Andrew Hussie
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Four internet friends play a game that creates universes, then must navigate a chaotic adventure through time, space, and meme-fueled paradoxes to save reality.
by Freya North
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A determined sports journalist, known only as Cat, cycles through the French countryside with the Tour de France, hoping to outrun the ghost of a past love and pedal her way to professional triumph.
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Alice wants to set up her father with her favorite teacher, but she learns that loving two people at once is a confusing reality when her own long-term relationship is challenged by a new boy.
by Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope's poetic essay explores the universe's order and humanity's place, urging readers to use reason and accept that 'whatever is, is right.'
by Erin Bowman
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A routine rescue mission to a desolate mining planet turns into a horrifying fight for survival when a skeleton crew unearths a parasitic alien horror that can reanimate the dead and rewrite human minds.
by Adam Rapp
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A meth-addicted fourteen-year-old punk navigates a raw, cross-country odyssey of seedy motels and dangerous strangers, writing letters to his dying gay brother in Memphis, hoping to reach him before time runs out.
by Maria Dahvana Headley
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A witty memoir about one woman's year-long dating experiment across New York City, embracing every suitor from taxi drivers to writers in a quest to redefine love and fix her bad taste.
by Bruce Coville
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A curious boy in a secret-filled castle goes on a nighttime quest to find out why it moans, discovering a world of goblins, magic, and unexpected fate.
by Simon Rich
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A shy, unpopular high schooler's life takes a hilariously dark turn when a wealthy new student decides to buy him popularity, only to reveal the true cost of engineered social success.
by Jackie French
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From cream cakes in Nazi Germany to rationing in wartime London and the unknown of Australia, a young boy's journey through WWII reveals how kindness can be as contagious as hatred.
by Joan London
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In 1937 rural Australia, two sisters' lives change when they hear the tales of Gilgamesh and face the coming WWII. One sister embarks on a journey across continents, like the ancient king's search for meaning after loss.
by Gary Gibson
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As a galaxy-consuming war rages, a desperate fleet commander must rescue a prisoner who holds the key to humanity's survival, all while dodging assassination attempts and the wrath of a vengeful bounty hunter.
by Michael H. Stone
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Dr. Michael Stone explores the minds of notorious killers, dissecting the range of human evil, mapping its psychological roots, and proposing a hierarchical understanding beyond religious dogma.
by Ken Follett
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During the Cold War, five families from America, Germany, Russia, England, and Wales navigate a world of political upheaval and social change, their personal lives reflecting the monumental shifts of the 1960s to 1980s.
by Kelley Armstrong
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A teenage girl who can see ghosts is committed to a mysterious group home for 'troubled teens,' only to discover her fellow residents possess supernatural abilities and the institution harbors dark secrets that threaten them all.
by Jen Calonita
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Four best friends get their own reality TV show, but the glamour fades fast as scripted drama and ratings battles threaten their real friendships, leading one girl to expose the truth behind the cameras.