Cutting for Stone
Twin surgeon brothers come of age in Ethiopia and America in Verghese's sweeping medical saga.
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance traces Elon Musk from a rough Pretoria childhood through PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Newt Scamander's Hogwarts textbook catalogues 85 magical beasts across five continents.
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Hatchet
A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet.
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Heartstopper: Volume Four
Nick and Charlie face eating disorders, coming out, and first love in Oseman's tender fourth volume.
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Hunting Adeline
Trafficked and caged, Adeline fights back while Zade tears the underworld apart to find her.
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In the Woods
A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier.
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Into the Water
A drowning pool, eleven narrators, and sisters divided in Hawkins's murky second thriller.
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Oliver Twist
An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
Evangeline trades three kisses with the Prince of Hearts to stop a wedding and dooms herself instead.
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Othello
Iago's lies drive the Moor of Venice to murder his innocent wife in Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy.
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Slammed
Grieving Layken falls for neighbor Will, then learns he is her teacher, and poems carry them.
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The Flatshare
Two strangers share one bed on opposite shifts and fall in love through notes left around the flat.
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The Lost Apothecary
A hidden 1791 apothecary poisons cruel men, and two centuries later an historian uncovers her trail.
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The Red Pyramid
Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane wake the Egyptian gods and must stop Set from destroying the world.
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The Wife Between Us
A jealous ex-wife stalks her replacement, but nothing in this marriage is what it seems.
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The Witches
A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Two Chicago teens with one name collide, with Tiny Cooper's musical stealing every scene.
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Witches
Colin Hawkins's rhyming picture book teaches small readers to spot witches, flaps and all.
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A Brief History of Time
Hawking walks from ancient spheres to big bang, black holes, and time arrows without equations.
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A Child Called It
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
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A Flicker in the Dark
Psychologist Chloe Davis faces copycat disappearances in Baton Rouge twenty years after her father confessed to murders.
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A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
Poppy travels to Atlantia with Hawke as Casteel while war, prophecies, and her own gifts close in.
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A Light in the Attic
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
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