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Writer Tom O’Neill disappears into the complex and shadowy cultural vortex on the 1960s.

Set in the magical Orisha kingdom, a young woman named Zelie Adebola witnesses the death of her mother and other magicians, called "maji," under the order of a ruthless king.

A modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime.

Set in California's Salinas Valley prior to World War I, the novel told of two families over the course of two generations, loosely alluding to the Biblical tale of Cain and Abel.

The story of Hug, a hopeful, physically asymmetrical boy who faces challenges in an orphanage, and the weird and dangerous world outside after he is adopted by an elderly eccentric as a pet.

In 1968, the Memphis sanitation workers strike becomes a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement. The strike, carried out by black employees over poor working conditions and discrimination, draws Martin Luther King Jr, the National Guard and the national media for what is a 65-day, often violent labor action.

French aristocrat-turned-anti-Nazi-Saboteur Robert de la Rochefoucauld joins the British Special Operations Executive and is trained in every manner of dark arts before being sent back to France to help organize the resistance, blowing up train stations and munitions factories, enduring months of torture and escaping his own execution.

Set against the dramatic landscape of the English coastal town of Lyme-Regis and centers on two female 19th century fossil hunters who make significant discoveries that changed the scientific world forever. The story reveals invisible women in science who were influential but marginalized and whose accomplishments were appropriated by men.

Set in New York City in 1938, a 25-year old named Katey Kontent attempts to rise above the Wall Street secretarial pool into the upper echelons of New York society at the end of the Depression. As much as anything, her challenge is to not lose herself in the romance in Gotham’s high society.

James "Sandman Slim" Stark, a fast talking, hard-boiled, supernatural vigilante, escapes from Hell to avenge his girlfriend’s murder and hunt down the magicians responsible for getting him sent "downtown."

A teen named Junior, a budding cartoonist, grows up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, he leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

A shepherd leaves Spain in search of a treasure in the Egyptian pyramids and meets various spiritual messengers along the way.

A worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion will reduce civilization to ashes unless it can be stopped by an improbable group of heroes led by an enigmatic man known as The Fireman. It's no simple blaze: the condition starts as an inky stripe on a bodypart, looking like a tattoo. It's a highly contagious deadly spore that eventually causes the sufferer to burst into flames. Millions are infected; among them is a nurse who treated numerous sufferers until they eventually perished, with the hospital burned to the ground. Pregnant, she finds herself infected with the spore. Knowing infected mothers have birthed healthy babies, she too is in a race against time.

A young woman, Katarina Bishop, comes from a long line of master thieves. However, she has left her illicit life behind until her father is the prime suspect in the case of a mobster's missing art collection. She assembles a crew to track down the art and steal it back.

Follows the four princes from the classic fairy tales who saved Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty.

A California woman, Jonell McLain, buys a diamond necklace with a dozen other women with the goal of sharing it — leading to the jewelry being transformed from a symbol of exclusivity to one of inclusiveness.

During the 1920s in Paris, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley become part of the fabled "Lost Generation" -- including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald -- and face a marital crisis.

Follows a young woman who lives near a corrupted woods where people rely on the powers of a wizard to keep the evil at bay.