Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
A family eats only local for a year from their Virginia farm.
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Books: A
243 books starting with A.
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Anna and the French Kiss
Anna Oliphant is sent to Paris boarding school and falls for Etienne while misreading Bridget and Matt.
3,262-word summary · 14 min read
Anna Dressed in Blood
Ghost hunter Cas meets Anna, the ghost who kills back.
2,622-word summary · 12 min read
Anna Karenina
Anna leaves Karenin for Vronsky while Levin seeks faith and farming outside Moscow.
3,942-word summary · 18 min read
Anne of Avonlea
Anne teaches at sixteen, adopts twins, and learns that fixing Avonlea takes patience.
1,909-word summary · 8 min read
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery brings talkative Anne Shirley to Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, where mistakes, school rivalries, and fierce friendship slowly turn…
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Anne of the Island
Anne leaves Avonlea for Redmond College, shares Patty's Place with friends, and learns to tell admiration apart from love.
2,766-word summary · 12 min read
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne spends three letter-filled years as principal of Summerside High, outlasts the Pringle clan, and warms a lonely vice-principal and a dreaming little girl…
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Anne's House of Dreams
Newlyweds Anne and Gilbert start in a seaside house with kind neighbors.
2,465-word summary · 11 min read
Annihilation
Four women enter Area X on the twelfth expedition to map a breathing tower that writes on its walls and a lighthouse full of lost journals.
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Anthem
A sweeper finds a tunnel, builds light, flees with Liberty, and rediscovers the lost word I.
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Antigone
A new king forbids burial to one brother. His niece defies him with dust and wine, and pride seals three tombs.
2,545-word summary · 11 min read
Anxious People
A failed bank robber takes eight strangers hostage at an apartment viewing, and nobody is who they seem.
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Anya's Ghost
A lonely Russian immigrant falls into a well, befriends the ghost trapped there, and discovers that the ghost's help comes with a dangerous price.
2,001-word summary · 9 min read
Apples Never Fall
A retired tennis coach vanishes, and her four children rethink their family story.
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Archenemies
Nova steals for the Anarchists while Adrian hides his Sentinel identity, and a serum that erases prodigy powers puts them both at risk.
2,485-word summary · 11 min read
Archer's Voice
Bree flees to Pelion, Maine and falls for Archer Hale, a mute recluse hiding a violent family past.
2,787-word summary · 12 min read
Are You My Mother?
A newborn bird falls from the nest and asks a kitten, a hen, a dog, a cow, a plane and a giant Snort if any will be his mother.
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Twelve-year-old Margaret navigates puberty in New Jersey while trying to choose a religion on her own.
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Handler mines family, jail, dating, and travel for brash essays where oversharing is both joke and shield.
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Ariadne
A Cretan princess helps Theseus kill the Minotaur, is abandoned on Naxos, and rebuilds her life while her sister faces tragedy in Athens.
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Two Mexican American boys in 1987 El Paso become inseparable and learn what love asks of family.
2,093-word summary · 9 min read
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Ari and Dante return for senior year in El Paso, navigating first love, AIDS, family grief, and the cost of being openly gay in 1987 Texas.
2,188-word summary · 10 min read
Armada
Gamer Zack learns Armada game trains real defense against alien Europans.
2,004-word summary · 9 min read