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by Colin Harrison
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A Manhattan insurance lawyer investigates a socialite's son's violent death, uncovering secrets involving a Czech hand model and Christmas ornaments in a volatile city.
by C.E. Kilgore
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An empathic woman with a dark past and a logical android with new emotions find their paths changed by a forbidden love. This love threatens to expose hidden alien societies and redefine their understanding of the universe.
by Richard Peck
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Three high school friends, seemingly inseparable, face a terrible question about how well they knew each other when one dies by suicide.
by Rudy Josephs
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When a big-city teen moves to a small town that has outlawed dancing, he ignites a rebellion to challenge restrictive traditions and win the heart of the local preacher's daughter.
by Cecelia Holland
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In the Holy Land of 1187 A.D., amidst clashing empires and religious fervor, a woman's passionate journey unfolds against the backdrop of Jerusalem's fate.
by W.S. Gilbert
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In a Japanese town, a minstrel in love navigates a Lord High Executioner's absurd rules and Victorian society's quirks in this operatic satire of love and power.
by James Abbott
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Framed and imprisoned, a disgraced commander must gather a diverse team of outcasts to escape and reclaim his kingdom from a tyrant.
by Josh Malerman
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Welcome to Goblin, a town where severed body parts are love letters, ghost traps are home décor, and a child's magic show ticket might be a one-way trip to another dimension, all under the terrifying eye of the North Woods.
by Lucy Ellmann
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After a Christmas Eve fall introduces him to an unconventional woman, a jaded plastic surgeon finds his meticulously constructed Manhattan life, and his understanding of love and feminism, radically upended.
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
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As Napoleon's shadow falls over England, the Morland family navigates war, plague, scandal, and heartbreak, from London's fashionable salons to the bloody decks of Trafalgar.
by Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott's collection reworks the Cinderella story and other Victorian romances. Young women overcome societal rules and find love, showing that a strong spirit could make its own happy ending, even in the 1800s.
by Jean Giraudoux
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In a whimsical Parisian fable, an eccentric duchess and her "mad" compatriots orchestrate a comically poetic trial, luring greedy prospectors to their subterranean doom and restoring joy and justice to the world.
by Jim Bernheimer
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A disgraced unicorn, bound to a reluctant recruit, must unlock their shared dangerous magic to unravel the mystery of his survival and reclaim his honor.
by Leo Tolstoy
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A prince, burdened by guilt, seeks to right a past wrong against a peasant girl, exposing the harsh realities of 19th-century Russia and embarking on a spiritual journey.
by Jonathan Berk
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Understand financial valuation through the Law Of One Price, making corporate finance clear and practical.
by Kelley Armstrong
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A genetically engineered necromancer on the run from her creators finds her already complicated life dangerously intertwined with two brothers, one a sorcerer and the other a werewolf.
by Melody Mayer
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In the glittering world of L.A., a socialite-turned-nanny will spin a web of charming lies to claw her way back to the top, even if it means blurring the lines between friendship and a very beneficial arrangement.
by James Silke
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Across a war-torn continent of savage empires and steaming jungles, the legendary Death Dealer, Gath of Baal, hunts for the mythical Noon, the beautiful Queen of Cats.
by Lauren Kate
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Trapped in a school for Nephilim, Luce uncovers the deceptive past of her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel, as she discovers her own power to glimpse previous lives through dangerous Shadows. She questions if their love is destined or a beautiful lie hiding a darker fate.
by Sarmila Bose
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Through fragmented memories from all sides, 'Dead Reckoning' reconstructs the 1971 South Asian war, dissecting partisan myths and revealing its human cost.
by Raymond Benson
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In a post-Metal Gear explosion world, a rookie agent named Raiden must navigate a New York Harbor superstructure full of strange villains, resurrected legends, and a hijacked president to uncover a conspiracy and a superweapon hidden in plain sight.
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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In a village where supernatural whispers chill the air, a minister confronts the terrifying secret of Thrawn Janet, a woman condemned as a witch.
by Joel Mokyr
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Mokyr explores why some societies achieve technological breakthroughs while others stagnate, providing historical lessons for future innovation.
by W.E.B. Du Bois
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W.E.B. Du Bois brings John Brown to life, not just as a historical figure, but as the incendiary prophet whose righteous, violent struggle against slavery ignited the Civil War.