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by Sarah Dalton
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Mina navigates the politics and ancient secrets of the Clans, confronting betrayals and a looming war that threatens her freedom and abilities.
by Arthur J. Roth
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Adrift in the 18th-century Arctic, a shipwrecked teen forges an unbreakable bond with an orphaned polar bear cub, battling the unforgiving ice and his own dwindling hope for survival.
by Unknown
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Camelot's chivalric dream ends as King Arthur, betrayed by his queen, his best knight, and his own son, faces the tragic end of his rule in a kingdom full of treachery and fading glory.
by Michael Blake
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Eleven years after finding peace among the Comanche, Dances With Wolves must again confront the brutal expansion of white settlers when his wife and infant daughter are abducted, forcing him into a desperate quest for rescue and revenge.
by Bertolt Brecht
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Through twenty-four chilling vignettes, Brecht exposes how Nazi terror crept into the daily lives of ordinary Germans, revealing a society suffocated by suspicion and fear.
by Tom Godwin
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Marooned on a hostile alien world with two suns and deadly monsters, untrained survivors must choose between despair or fueling their will to live with a burning desire for revenge against their cruel captors.
by Gillian Shields
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At an isolated Gothic boarding school, a lonely scholarship student's forbidden romance with a mysterious boy unravels a haunting historical secret that reveals her own supernatural destiny.
by Sheila O'Connor
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In 1930s rural Minnesota, three orphaned siblings must navigate their grandfather's sudden illness, fending for themselves and uncovering a hidden family past to stay together.
by David C. Korten
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Korten's book analyzes multinational corporations' growing global power and introduces the Living Democracy movement as a hopeful alternative to a system that favors profit over people and the planet.
by Alan Cowsill
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This updated A-Z guide covers over 220 heroes and villains, showing the Avengers' story through Marvel art and character details.
by Sharon G. Flake
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From schoolyard bully to trafficking victim, Char's harrowing journey reveals the brutal underworld preying on vulnerable teens, testing her resilience and capacity for compassion in a fight for freedom.
by Ari Berk
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Armed with a spectral clock and a legacy of death, a young boy must brave a crumbling, ghost-haunted town to find his missing mortician father and embrace his own destiny as an Undertaker of the dead.
by Marjetta Geerling
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Abby's 'One True Love Plan' to avoid her sisters' romantic mistakes falls apart when she likes a guy who might be the father of her sister's baby.
by Norbert Elias
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Norbert Elias shows how the state's power monopoly in Western Europe changed personal manners and individual minds, shaping the 'civilized' self from the late Middle Ages onward.
by Loretta Ellsworth
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A determined sixteen-year-old runaway embarks on a cross-country bus journey to find the reclusive Harper Lee, hoping the author holds the key to understanding the mother she never knew and the tattered copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' that connects them.
by Philip Barry
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A headstrong Philadelphia socialite, on the eve of her second wedding, finds her world upended by the arrival of her ex-husband and two journalists.
by S. Terrell French
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After intercepting an email, Julian and his friends must outwit his greedy uncle's company to save ancient California redwoods using clever stunts and unwavering determination.
by Patricia Cornwell
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Young lovers disappear and reappear as mutilated bodies in Richmond. Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta races to connect present horrors to a past killer before the President's daughter becomes the next victim.
by D.H. Lawrence
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After miraculously rising from the tomb, a disillusioned Christ embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, embracing the pagan life-force and finding redemption not in divinity, but in the arms of an Isis priestess.
by Ed McBain
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In the sweltering heat of Florida, attorney Matthew Hope finds himself entangled in the brutal murder of a mother and her two daughters, forced to defend a man who confesses to the heinous crime despite having no discernible motive.
by David Jones
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Through the fragmented view of a World War I soldier, David Jones connects the muddy trenches to ancient battlefields of Roman Britain and Arthurian legend, exploring myth and memory.
by Lisa Scottoline
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When a school explosion forces a mother to choose between saving her bullied daughter or the bully, her heroic act turns her into a pariah, forcing her to unravel a devastating truth to reclaim her family and reputation.
by Gustave Flaubert
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A young genius's self-proclaimed madness begins when a brief glimpse of a woman by the sea shatters his boyhood innocence, forcing him into a tragic and early adulthood.
by Mark Heyman
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A ballerina's relentless pursuit of perfection for the dual role of the White and Black Swan blurs the line between reality and a terrifying descent into madness.