Rene is an obsessive-compulsive fourteen-year-old hell-bent on becoming a super-hero. He's convinced that if he picks up a face-down coin or washes his body parts in the wrong order, tragedy will befall those closest to him. Rene's new and only friend Gio tutors him in the art of playing it cool, but can Rene ever be safe when the scariest place is in his head?

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Gates is a felon, serving a sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, has escaped their impoverished upbringing to become an attorney and to make a happy life with his family. But Mason's idyll is interrupted by tragedy, and soon trouble forces him to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had sworn to keep forever, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear.

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738 annoying things. An obsessive collection of irritations, injustices, and petty pretensions. It's about time someone wrote this stuff down, like that Barry Manilow didn't write his hit song "I Write the Songs." Don't you just hate that?!

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In 1945, a young African-American man from Mississippi was sentenced to death for allegedly raping a white housewife. By the time McGee was executed, his case had become an international cause célèbre, and it is still open to interpretation. Whether McGee was innocent may never be known, but his case remains an unforgettable story of justice in the Deep South of Jim Crow.

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R has an existential crisis—he is a zombie. With neither identity nor pulse, R makes an unexpected choice after experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain. He begins a tense, awkward, and strangely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend, Julie. His choice to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world.

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Twins Julia and Valentina Poole find out that their aunt Elspeth has died and left them her London apartment with two conditions: that they live there for a year before selling it, and that their parents not enter it. In a flat bordering the vast Highgate Cemetery, the girls meet some unusual neighbors and discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including—perhaps—their aunt.

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When uptown girl Vanessa starts to move in on Richard, his ride-or-die girl Valentine will stop at nothing to keep him. Each woman plots and schemes to steal Rich's heart. Rich must make a decision: gamble and start a new life with the beautiful and cunning Vanessa, or stay with his around-the-way girl Valentine, who has been with him through thick and thin?

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Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg for Lake Lugano to profile Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his boss); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away. As a guest in Svensson's puzzling household—an enigmatic Finnish woman, her son, and a three-legged dog—Mandelkern slowly uncovers his host's past and comes to terms with his own.

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In a new university position in small-town Oregon, Scanlon's research leads him to become involved with Clay, a troubled young anarchist, and Sequoia, a sensuous secessionist. His wife Naomi, a fragrance designer whose sense of smell had inexplicably vanished, finds her sensitive nose revived, but doesn't like all that she smells. As the Pratts welcome their first child, they must decide where their loyalties lie before Clay's increasingly volatile activism engulfs them all.

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