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by Laila Ibrahim
4.3(63,622)
Raised by her enslaved wet nurse in antebellum Virginia, a privileged white girl grapples with the heartbreaking realities of slavery and the impossible choice between familial loyalty and the woman who truly raised her.
by Louise L. Hay
4.2(63,604)
Transform your health and life by understanding how your thoughts shape your reality, offering a direct path to self-healing.
by Charles Bukowski
3.9(63,526)
Fifty-year-old Henry Chinaski, a newly famous poet, falls into a spiral of hangovers and lust, navigating women and booze with his usual dark humor.
by Courtney Summers
4.1(63,520)
After her younger sister is brutally murdered, Sadie seeks vengeance, leaving clues for a podcast host to follow through rural America.
by Stephenie Meyer
3.8(63,518)
Experience the familiar, forbidden romance of Edward and Bella anew, this time through the tormented eyes of a vampire battling his predatory instincts against an overwhelming, dangerous love.
by Stephen Hawking
4.0(63,503)
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow challenge our deepest ideas about creation, reality, and the universe's origin, proposing a multiverse born from quantum fluctuations where observation shapes history, and M-theory is the ultimate quest for everything.
by Michael Connelly
4.1(63,493)
When a detective's apparent suicide unravels into a series of murders from Hollywood to Mexico, Harry Bosch must navigate a deadly game where the truth is as elusive as 'black ice'.
by Angie Thomas
4.3(63,430)
Sixteen-year-old Bri has to use her father's rap legacy to save her family from eviction, all while finding her own voice in a world of lyrical battles.
by Lee Child
4.1(63,312)
An ex-military drifter finds a woman's West Point ring in a pawn shop. His quest to return it uncovers a criminal conspiracy in the American Midwest.
by Mary Doria Russell
4.1(63,300)
A Jesuit mission to a planet of singing aliens finds a universe so beautiful and brutal, it shatters their faith and changes what they think it means to be human.
by Diane Chamberlain
4.0(63,178)
When a woman discovers her presumed-dead sister is alive and living under a new identity, she unravels a twenty-year-old family conspiracy that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about her past.
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.3(63,020)
Robin Wall Kimmerer uses the serviceberry and Indigenous knowledge to show how an economy based on gratitude and reciprocity makes everyone better off, not just those who hoard.
by Peter Mayle
4.0(62,905)
Peter Mayle moves to a 200-year-old farmhouse in Provence, where he learns to live by the seasons, not the clock, navigating frosty mistrals, goat races, and regional cuisine with humor and charm.
by Jeff Kinney
4.3(62,888)
Middle school mayhem ensues when Greg Heffley, abandoned by his best friend, resorts to the whims of chance to navigate the treacherous waters of friendship and avoid a perpetual streak of hard luck.
by Marissa Meyer
4.2(62,882)
This collection of short stories explores the hidden origins and connections of cyborg mechanics, soldiers, and hackers within the Lunar Chronicles universe, revealing its romantic core.
by Philippa Gregory
3.8(62,825)
Orphaned and widowed, Margaret Beaufort, a child-bride to Edmund Tudor, meticulously schemes and manipulates her way through the treacherous War of the Roses to ensure her son, Henry Tudor, seizes the English throne and establishes the Tudor dynasty.
by Hillary Jordan
4.0(62,796)
On a Mississippi Delta farm in the Jim Crow South, a white veteran and a Black veteran form a forbidden friendship, igniting racial prejudice and familial secrets that lead to tragedy.
by Tana French
3.9(62,789)
A cryptic note from a boarding school girl thrusts two detectives into the insular, venomous world of teenage cliques to unravel a year-old murder, revealing that the secrets of adolescence can be as deadly as any adult crime.
by Arlene Mosel
4.2(62,753)
A boy with an impossibly long and honorable name falls into a well, leading to a frantic, name-mangling rescue that changes ancient Chinese naming conventions forever.
by Patricia Briggs
4.4(62,727)
When her werewolf pack vanishes, shifter Mercy Thompson must navigate a treacherous political underworld and forge unlikely alliances to rescue her mate and stepdaughter before their enemies exploit the chaos.
by Ian McEwan
3.6(62,529)
On a single Saturday, a contented neurosurgeon's ordinary London day off unravels into a terrifying confrontation with a disturbed young man, forcing him to use his medical knowledge to protect his family amidst a city on the brink of war.
by Elizabeth Acevedo
4.4(62,484)
In Harlem, a fierce Afro-Latina teenager named Xiomara writes secret poems, using them as a microphone to fight her mother's religious rules and a world that tries to quiet her voice and forbidden love.
by Audrey Penn
4.4(62,436)
A mother raccoon shares a secret 'Kissing Hand' with her son to magically deliver her love and comfort him through the anxieties of starting school.
by Dean Koontz
4.0(62,327)
In an isolated monastery, psychic Odd Thomas seeks solace from a lost love, only to find himself stalked by sinister, death-heralding specters and an ancient, inexorable adversary threatening innocent children.