Divergent
Veronica Roth's Divergent explained: the five factions, Tris's choice of Dauntless, the aptitude test, and where the trilogy's premise starts to crack under…
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Books: D
111 books starting with D.
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Divergent: Official Illustrated Movie Companion
An oversize behind-the-scenes guide to the 2014 Divergent film, with casting stories, costume and set design, and scores of photos.
2,524-word summary · 11 min read
Divine Rivals
Iris Winnow trades secret letters with rival Roman Kitt as gods Enva and Dacre wake to war.
2,594-word summary · 12 min read
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Sidda Walker, a theater director, fights with her mother Vivi after a New York Times interview, then learns Vivi's past through the Ya-Ya scrapbook from…
2,611-word summary · 12 min read
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
2,841-word summary · 13 min read
Doctor Sleep
Grown Dan Torrance gets sober in New Hampshire and helps gifted Abra Stone face the True Knot.
2,841-word summary · 13 min read
Doctor Zhivago
A doctor and poet lives through revolution, war, and love in Pasternak's novel of private life under the pressure of Russian history.
2,213-word summary · 10 min read
Does It Hurt?
Running Sawyer hitches a sailboat with guarded Enzo and wrecks off the Australian coast.
2,251-word summary · 10 min read
Dog Days
Greg wastes summer perfectly through pools, dogs and dad fishing trips.
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Dolores Claiborne
A Maine housekeeper confesses two deaths in one voice: Vera fall and husband lost in eclipse.
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Don Quixote
A poor gentleman maddened by knight romances rides out as Don Quixote with Sancho Panza, until the world answers back.
3,785-word summary · 17 min read
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
A bus driver leaves the reader in charge with one rule, and a very persuasive pigeon spends the rest of the book trying to break it.
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
Richard Carlson’s 1997 bestseller offers one hundred short chapters on lowering the volume on daily irritations, and it is more pragmatic than its title…
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Done and Dusted
Injured rider Emmy returns to Meadowlark and falls for brother's best friend Luke.
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Orwell's account of washing dishes in Paris hotels and tramping through London does not ask for pity, only for a clear look at how poverty actually works.
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Dracula
Count Dracula sails for England in letters and diaries, and Van Helsing leads the hunt to stop him.
2,860-word summary · 13 min read
Dragon Cursed
Isola survived a dragon attack as a child and became a hero, but she fears her rare magic is a curse turning her into a beast.
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Dragonflight
A kitchen drudge with hidden mind talent Impresses a golden queen and must unite a starved dragon Weyr against Thread. First of Pern.
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Dragonfly in Amber
Claire 1968 recalls Jacobite Paris with Jamie to stop Culloden.
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Old friends reunite at the Inn of the Last Home, guard a glowing Blue Crystal Staff, face black dragon Khisanth, and free slaves at Pax Tharkas in this 1984…
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Drama
Callie designs sets for Moon Over Mississippi amid crushes and crew chaos.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Edwards teaches seeing edges spaces to draw via right brain exercises.
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Dream Country
Four Sandman shorts on muses, cats, Shakespeare, and a veiled heroine.
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Dreamcatcher
King's 2001 novel follows four Maine friends whose hunting trip meets an alien crash. A friendship story wrapped in graphic infection horror.
2,627-word summary · 12 min read