1009 Results in the "Literary Fiction" category


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      Leaving Time

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      by testsuphomeAdmin Leav­ing Time (2014) by ​Jodi Picoult​ is a ​mys­tery-dri­ven dra­ma​ blend­ing ​grief, mem­o­ry, and the super­nat­ur­al. The sto­ry fol­lows ​13-year-old Jen­na Met­calf, who has spent a decade search­ing for her miss­ing moth­er, ​Alice, a sci­en­tist study­ing ele­phant grief. After her mother’s mys­te­ri­ous dis­ap­pear­ance from an ele­phant sanctuary—following a trag­ic acci­dent involv­ing an ele­phant and Jenna’s father—Jenna hires ​a dis­graced psy­chic​ and ​a retired detec­tive​ to…
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      Mad Honey

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      by testsuphomeAdmin Mad Hon­ey (2022) by ​Jodi Picoult​ and ​Jen­nifer Finney Boy­lan​ is a ​mul­ti-lay­ered nov­el​ blend­ing ​mys­tery, court­room dra­ma, and LGBTQ+ themes. The sto­ry fol­lows ​Olivia McAfee, a bee­keep­er and sin­gle moth­er, whose son ​Ash­er​ stands accused of mur­der­ing his girl­friend, ​Lily Cam­pan­el­lo. As the tri­al unfolds, secrets about Lily’s trans­gen­der iden­ti­ty and Asher’s volatile behav­ior emerge, forc­ing Olivia to con­front her past—including her own escape…
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      by testsuphomeAdmin Small Great Things by ​Jodi Picoult​ (2016) is a grip­ping nov­el that explores ​racism, priv­i­lege, and jus­tice​ in mod­ern Amer­i­ca. The sto­ry fol­lows ​Ruth Jef­fer­son, an expe­ri­enced Black labor and deliv­ery nurse, who is for­bid­den from car­ing for a new­born after the white suprema­cist par­ents request “no African Amer­i­can staff.” When the baby goes into car­diac arrest and Ruth hes­i­tates to inter­vene, she is charged…
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      by testsuphomeAdmin Anna Fitzger­ald is an 11-year-old girl who was ​genet­i­cal­ly engi­neered​ to be a per­fect med­ical match for her old­er sis­ter, Kate, who suf­fers from leukemia. After years of donat­ing blood, bone mar­row, and organs to keep Kate alive, Anna hires a lawyer to sue her par­ents for ​med­ical eman­ci­pa­tion—the right to con­trol her own body. The law­suit forces the fam­i­ly to con­front painful truths…
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      by testsuphomeAdmin All the Light We Can­not See is a beau­ti­ful­ly writ­ten his­tor­i­cal nov­el that tells the par­al­lel sto­ries of Marie-Lau­re, a blind French girl, and Wern­er, a Ger­man orphan and gift­ed radio tech­ni­cian, whose paths con­verge dur­ing World War II in the occu­pied French town of Saint-Malo. Marie-Lau­re flees Paris with her father as the Nazis invade, car­ry­ing a mys­te­ri­ous and poten­tial­ly cursed dia­mond from…
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      Animal Farm

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      by testsuphomeAdmin Ani­mal Farm (1945) is a satir­i­cal ​alle­gor­i­cal novel­la​ by George Orwell that cri­tiques total­i­tar­i­an­ism, par­tic­u­lar­ly Stal­in­ism, through the lens of a farm where ani­mals over­throw their human oppres­sors. The sto­ry begins with the ani­mals of Manor Farm rebelling against their exploita­tive own­er, Mr. Jones, inspired by the ideals of Old Major (a pig rep­re­sent­ing Karl Marx/Lenin). They estab­lish a new soci­ety based on equal­i­ty, sum­ma­rized…
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      Long Island

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      by testsuphomeAdmin Long Island is a 2024 nov­el by Colm Tóibín, which serves as a con­tin­u­a­tion of his crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed nov­el Brook­lyn. The sto­ry fol­lows the life of Eilis Lacey, now in her 40s, liv­ing on Long Island with her hus­band Tony Fiorel­lo and their two teenage chil­dren. Despite her years in Amer­i­ca, Eilis has remained deeply con­nect­ed to her Irish roots and has nev­er returned…
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      by testsuphomeAdmin The Wed­ding Peo­ple is a heart­felt and wit­ty nov­el about unex­pect­ed con­nec­tion, grief, and sec­ond chances. The sto­ry fol­lows Phoebe, a woman reel­ing from per­son­al tragedy, who impul­sive­ly checks into a Con­necti­cut sea­side hotel where a wed­ding is tak­ing place. She soon finds her­self entan­gled with a group of wed­ding guests and strangers, lead­ing to a week­end filled with emo­tion­al rev­e­la­tions, sur­pris­ing friend­ships, and…
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      by testsuphomeAdmin ord of the Flies is a clas­sic alle­gor­i­cal nov­el that explores the dark side of human nature. When a group of British school­boys become strand­ed on a desert­ed island, they attempt to gov­ern themselves—only for their efforts to spi­ral into chaos and sav­agery. Through this grip­ping tale, Gold­ing exam­ines the fragili­ty of civ­i­liza­tion, the lure of pow­er, and the pri­mal instincts that lie beneath…
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      Wait

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      by testsuphomeAdmin Wait is a reflec­tive, emo­tion­al­ly inti­mate novel­la that cen­ters around a woman nav­i­gat­ing an uncer­tain wait­ing peri­od — lit­er­al and metaphor­i­cal — in her life. Told through sharp, lyri­cal prose, the sto­ry explores themes of time, long­ing, wom­an­hood, and the body, set against the back­drop of qui­et domes­tic moments and inter­nal con­flict. The nar­ra­tor moves through a phase of sus­pend­ed ani­ma­tion — wait­ing for…
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