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One of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment tells the tragic story of Raskolnikov-a talented former student whose warped philosophical outlook drives him to commit murder. Surprised by his sense of guilt and terrified of the consequences of his actions, Raskolnikov wanders through the slums of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg trying to escape the ever-suspicious Porfiry, the official investigating...
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There are many ways to die at the Circus of the Dead.
You're invited to witness them all.
Mom sent me all the way across the country to the Louisiana bayou to join the circus and help my uncle for the summer.
Except there is something not quite right on this swampy cursed island, and after having my fortune told, I can't leave.
I try to escape, but Benny, an all too charming ghost gangster tries to kill me by feeding me to a tiger.
Thankfully...
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"D.H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love' is a profound exploration of relationships and human psyche set against the backdrop of early 20th century England. This sequel to 'The Rainbow' continues the story of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, as they navigate complex emotional landscapes in their respective relationships.
Gudrun, an artist, enters a turbulent and ultimately destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist, while Ursula,...
4) Hero Maker
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A teen haunted by dreams discovers that he has special powers, revealing that superheroes are hidden among us every day.
A 16-year-old with exceptional abilities is thrust into a life of danger in this fascinating YA magical realism story.
Sixteen-year-old Adam is haunted by dreams that leave him exhausted and confused. When a memory of a long-forgotten experience comes back to him, tying him to someone's perilous escape from death, his special...
5) Dark Secrets
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When the Powers of Darkness infest a small New England town...
Rick Williams is the dependable, boy next door type. As his eighteenth birthday approaches, he suddenly experiences violent, unexplainable headaches.
Enter Terrence, a mysterious substitute teacher at the local high school in scenic Maplecrest, Vermont. With Terrence's encouragement and influence, a group of seemingly normal students turns a routine science lab experiment into a frenzy...
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She's his best friend's little sister. He's the biggest player of them all.
They shouldn't be together. But this summer's just too tempting.
Sixteen-year-old Emilia Moretti's goal for the summer is simple: forget her brother's best friend-Nick Grawsky-ever existed. It should be easy: He's spending his summer in the Hamptons, adding girls in tiny bikinis to his list of broken hearts. Guarantee he won't be telling them they're like his little sisters....
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A large scale and much publicized expedition to Antarctica is about to take place. While excitement runs high in the scientific community over this expedition, one geologist tries his hardest to stop the trip from ever happening. This is because William Dyer has been to Antarctica on an expedition before, and knows of the unspeakable horrors that lie in its frigid terrain. Dyer goes into explaining that during his last trip, he and another small group...
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Let's immerse ourselves in the captivating narrative of L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle, a tale that unfolds against the backdrop of the enchanting Muskoka wilderness and introduces us to the unforgettable Valancy Stirling. The story invites us into the constrained and ordinary life of Valancy Stirling, a meek and introverted woman living with her overbearing mother and domineering extended family in the conservative community of Deerwood. Valancy's...
9) Wasteland
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Meg has spent the last twelve years of her life living in the Wasteland with a protector who has kept her in the dark about her origins, and trained her to be a fighter and weapons expert.
What Meg doesn't know is that she is an Antaean: a super soldier engineered to protect the country of Sirain from its enemies, then hidden away from the very cities that sacrificed many of their own people to design her. It isn't, until an attack by a group of...
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Sometimes being first isn't what you expected.
Sometimes, you get a second chance at love.
Seventeen-year-old ballerina Emilia Moretti is tired of always being second best. And she's going to prove the world she deserves to be first. In her upcoming School of the Performing Arts showcase. In the eyes of her birth parents. And in the heart of the guy, she loves. She spends hours rehearsing, hours dreaming about becoming number one, hours imagining...
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Amory Blaine is an accomplished, attractive Princeton student who aspires to greatness. Called to serve during the First World War, Amory returns after the war and settles in New York where he falls in love with Rosalind Connage, a beautiful debutante with aspirations of her own. At turns wildly optimistic and bitterly cynical, This Side of Paradise is the story of what happens to love when it becomes distorted by greed. Published in 1920, This Side...
12) The Deep
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'The world is never-ending.
I never realized just how much space there is - how far and wide the water around our island stretches out. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I may have believed that a second Wall ran around Tresco, containing the infinite waters so we wouldn't all wash over the edge and plummet down into the depths.'
Leia and Walt are on their way to the Other Side, where the legendary land of Cornwall awaits them. Tony, their new friend,...
13) Jane Eyre
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
14) Summer Crush
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Take one last end-of-school bonfire, a girl who's never been kissed, and the encouragement of a best friend. Will Jess finally reveal her feelings to Ellie before it's too late?
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Absolute Power Corrupts Even the Best of Friends.
Mildred Graeme is a witch that knows what it's like to fail. She loathes small talk, struggles with magic, and grew up wretchedly poor. What's easy for her best friend Evelyn, a wealthy, powerful socialite, is difficult for Mildred.
The two lifelong friends reunite at Chatham Castle where they fight together for the dream of a better world. Mildred wants to save the Network from political elitism,...
16) Valentine
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Rowan's missing.
Hazel's heart skips a beat when she hears those two horrible words. She wastes no time and immediately gets on an airplane home.
There's one problem.
She can't fly without being heavily sedated and there was no time to get any medicine. Just as her panic is about to overwhelm her the sexy stranger in the seat next to her offers to hold her hand.
Six hand clenching hours later, Hazel is safely on the ground. But as she learns the...
17) Starstruck
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The middle of nowhere just got a lot more interesting! Nerdy, orphaned astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, dreams of escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and becoming "somebody"-a distant dream until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her. As Rigel turns his back on fawning cheerleaders to spend time with M, strange things happen: her acne clears up, her terrible eyesight improves, and when they touch, sparks fly-literally! When M digs...
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Ten-year-old Martha has leadership skills. At least, that's what her parents say. Her cousins, Sanjay and Anand, say she's bossy.
When Martha secretly adopts a very pregnant cat from a garage sale free box right before her cousins come for a long visit, it puts a serious kink in her carefully laid plans for summer. That kink grows even bigger, when the cat runs away. Still, Martha's determined to give her cousins forty-two days of fun, Portland,...
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Aurora Firedrake returns in the spellbinding sequel to The Last of the Firedrakes.
The seven kingdoms of Avalonia are crumbling and evil is spreading across the land like a plague. Queen Morgana is close to finding a way to open the Book of Abraxas and it's only a matter of time until she uses the power trapped inside its pages to enslave the entire world.
With Avalonia growing more dangerous by the day, Aurora must travel through war-torn lands...
20) The Kings
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At the end of the war….
Only one king will survive.
Sid, Val, and Skye plunge right into the middle of the war anyway, risking everything to save the dragon races.
But then the war takes a terrible twist. The White Witch turns her attention to human cities and slaughters hundreds of thousands.
With the arctic and canyon dragons bearing down on the rest of the dragons and humans coming after them with new weapons, the war seems all but lost.
Will...
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