The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
How mass incarceration became a racial caste system after civil rights.
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The Nickel Boys
Idealist Elwood and skeptic Turner endure Nickel reform school beatings, ledgers, and graves.
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The Night Before Christmas
A father watches St Nicholas arrive with reindeer on Christmas Eve in classic poem.
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The Night Circus
Two young magicians duel inside a black-and-white circus that only opens at night, and fall in love against the rules.
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The Night She Disappeared
Two teen moms vanish one night, and two years later a writer finds notes in the woods.
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The Night Swim
A true crime podcaster covers a rape trial while probing an old drowning in a small town.
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The Night We Met
She picked the wrong ride home; now her best friend might be the right man.
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The Nightingale
Nightingale retold: Vianne and Isabelle in occupied France, hide children, run routes, trials.
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The No-Show
Three women are stood up on Valentine's Day by the same man, but the timeline is not what it seems. O'Leary's warmest book with a knife in it.
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Precious Ramotswe opens a detective agency in Gaborone and solves small cases with tea, patience, and kindness.
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The Notebook
The Notebook retold: Noah reads to Allie in a nursing home, summer love in New Bern, letters and choice.
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The Obelisk Gate
Essun travels south to find safety and her daughter while Nassun stays with her father and learns fear. The Hugo-winning second Broken Earth book widens…
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A man recalls age seven when a lodger's suicide let hunger birds in, and Lettie Hempstock saved him.
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The Odyssey
Homer's Odyssey in Fagles translation: Odysseus fights home past Cyclops, Circe, and Sirens while Telemachus seeks news and Penelope stalls suitors in Ithaca.…
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The Old Man and the Sea
Off Cuba, old Santiago rows out after 84 empty days, hooks a great marlin, and holds on for three days alone.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
Four meals traced from corn fields to foraging show what industrial food costs and what else is possible.
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The Once and Future King
T.H. White retells Arthur from boyhood with Merlyn to Camelot's fall, mixing comedy, myth, and a hard look at war and power.
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The Once and Future Witches
Three estranged sisters bring witchcraft back to an 1893 city where magic hides in nursery rhymes and the fight for the vote is also a fight for power.
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The One
A DNA test promises perfect love, but five Matches face lies, murder and a hacked database.
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The One
Four girls remain in the Selection and America must choose between Prince Maxon and Aspen, and her future.
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The One and Only Ivan
A mall gorilla who paints promises a dying elephant friend to get baby Ruby to a better home.
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Dying teen Lenni and 83-year-old Margot paint one hundred years of stories.
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The One Minute Manager
A young seeker learns three one minute habits from a plainspoken boss: clear goals, quick praise, and fast fair correction.
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The One Plus One
Broke cleaner Jess Thomas gets a lift from wealthy Ed Nicholls to take math gifted daughter Tanzie to her Olympiad, and a cramped road trip slowly turns to…
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