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Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Bronte ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do? Still indomitable was the reply: I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, th..."

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The Calamity Club

By Kathryn Stockett ★★★★★★★★★½ 9.5/10 ""I was an odd bird, I knew that. People had told me that most of my life. But I'd learned to live with loneliness in a way my sister never would. She'd never had to. I'd be afraid for her if she eve..."

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Angel Down

By Daniel Kraus ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""...for if you were to forge new kinds of weapons, and those weapons flew farther and sailed higher than anything before them, it stood to reason that the payloads might strike beings hovering at alti..."

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The Elements

By John Boyne ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""Around us, gurneys pass by while outside, in the waiting room, people sit with broken arms, sprained ankles, knife wounds, all the injuries that human beings suffer on a daily basis, because our skin..."

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A Guardian and a Thief

By Megha Majumdar ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""But the needs of others were always smaller than the needs of one's own child."..."

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Flashlight

By Susan Choi ★★★★★★★★★½ 9.5/10 ""My God, she remembers this, too: his utter faith in her. No one, least of all her, ever held such faith in her again."..."

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Life, & Death, & Giants

By Ron Rindo ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""I cannot make sense of my own confusion. I'd heard thousands of people cheering for my beloved grandson, saw them on their feet, as if in worship, singing his name. I swell with pride, of course. Who..."