I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou recalls Stamps, St Louis and San Francisco, from childhood silence after trauma to voice through books and work.
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Ignite Me
Juliette must rebuild after Omega Point falls, face Anderson, and choose between Adam and Warner as war closes in.
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In Five Years
Dannie sees herself with another man in 2025, then meets him as her best friend Bella's boyfriend. A sad, readable story about plans, friendship, and grief.
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Inferno
Dan Brown's Inferno retold: Robert Langdon wakes in Florence with lost memory, follows Dante's clues with Sienna Brooks from Palazzo Vecchio to Venice and…
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Into Thin Air
Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster: a guided summit push, a sudden storm, and the choices that left eight dead above 26,000 feet.
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It's Not Summer Without You
After Susannah's death, Belly returns to a cold Cousins Beach with Jeremiah to save the house and faces grief, brother tension, and first love.
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Layla
Leeds brings Layla back to the bed-and-breakfast where they met after a shooting changes her, then a new guest named Willow blurs every line he trusted.
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Local Woman Missing
Two women vanish from one street. Eleven years later, a missing girl returns with no memory.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Florentino waits fifty years for Fermina: youth letters, a marriage to Urbino, hundreds of affairs, and a river trip where old love gets a last hearing.
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Love on the Brain
Bee Konigswasser lands her dream NASA neuroengineering lead and must co-lead with grad-school nemesis Levi Ward, while her equipment fails and someone…
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Marked
Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledgling vampyre and sent to Tulsa's House of Night, where Goddess-gifted powers, new friends, and a corrupt queen bee test her…
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Maybe Someday
Sydney moves across the hall after betrayal and writes songs with deaf guitarist Ridge.
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Moby-Dick
Ishmael ships with Queequeg on the Pequod as Ahab hunts the white whale.
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Neverwhere
Richard Mayhew helps a bleeding girl in London and slips into London Below, a hidden city of killers, bargains and angels.
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Number the Stars
Ten year old Annemarie helps her Jewish best friend escape occupied Copenhagen.
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One for the Money
Janet Evanovich's One for the Money fully retold: Stephanie Plum's first bounty hunt, Morelli on a murder charge, Ranger, Lula, Ramirez, and why Trenton still…
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One True Loves
Emma Blair loses husband Jesse presumed dead, rebuilds life in Acton with fiance Sam, then Jesse returns alive after years missing, forcing a painful choice…
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Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, from Sunja's fall and brave marriage to pachinko parlors, discrimination, and sons who choose different ways to…
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Red Rising
Darrow, a Red miner on Mars, loses his wife and is remade as a Gold to infiltrate the Institute, where teens wage war for power and he plots revolution.
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Ruin and Rising
Hiding in the White Cathedral, a weakened Alina hunts the firebird while the Darkling holds Ravka and the Fold widens.
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Something Borrowed
Good girl Rachel loves her best friend's fiance through a summer of weddings and lies.
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Speak
After calling police at a party, ninth grader Melinda stops speaking until art helps her tell.
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Station Eleven
After a flu empties the world, a traveling troupe plays Shakespeare for small towns linked by one dead actor.
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