The Only Good Indians
Four Blackfeet men who killed a pregnant elk are hunted by her spirit a decade later, and the only person who can end the cycle is a teenage girl who was not…
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The Only One Left
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
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The Only Woman in the Room
A novel about Hedy Lamarr's escape from an arms-dealer husband, her Hollywood career, and the frequency-hopping patent the Navy ignored.
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The Opal Deception
Mind-wiped Artemis steals a Munich painting while escaped pixie Opal Koboi frames Holly Short for murder and plots exposure.
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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Zipes translates all 156 tales from the Grimms' 1812 and 1815 first edition, rougher and stranger than the famous 1857 versions.
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The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson's Pulitzer-winning novel follows Pak Jun Do from a North Korean orphanage to a deadly identity swap, under a state whose loudspeakers never stop…
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The Orphan's Tale
A Dutch teenager rescues a Jewish baby from a death train and joins a German circus, where a Jewish aerialist teaches her to fly.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Mary Boleyn tells how she and sister Anne loved Henry VIII and paid for ambition at the Tudor court.
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The Other Hand
Nigerian Little Bee leaves detention after two years and reunites with Sarah O'Rourke, linked by a violent beach meeting in Nigeria.
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The Other Mrs.
A Chicago family inherits a house on a Maine island, then a neighbor is found murdered. Kubica's 2020 thriller builds to a final reframe.
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The Other Woman
In London, Emily falls for devoted Adam but faces his cold mother Pammie, whose quiet sabotage of dresses, flats, and plans hides a twist that reframes both…
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The Outsider
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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The Outsiders
Outsiders retold: Ponyboy and greasers vs Socs, church fire, rumble, stay gold ache.
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The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
A burned-out school librarian gets a summer to herself when her estranged husband returns, and discovers that being a mother does not have to mean losing…
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The Overnight Guest
A snowbound writer shelters a lost boy in Iowa while a twenty-year-old story of neglect closes in.
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The Overstory
Nine strangers shaped by trees collide in the Pacific Northwest timber wars in Powers's 2018 Pulitzer winner.
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The Pact
After Emily Gold dies from a gunshot, her boyfriend Chris Harte says it was a suicide pact and faces trial for murder.
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The Paper Palace
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
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The Paris Apartment
Jess finds her brother missing in Paris where every neighbor hides something.
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The Paris Library
Odile lands her dream job at the American Library in Paris as war closes in, then hides that past in Montana until teen Lily draws it out.
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The Paris Wife
Hadley Richardson marries young Ernest Hemingway and follows him to 1920s Paris, fame, and heartbreak.
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The Partner
A Biloxi lawyer fakes his death, steals $90 million, and hides in Brazil until hired muscle drags him home to trial.
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The Passage
A failed Army experiment makes blood-hungry virals, and a quiet girl named Amy may hold the answer a century later.
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The Path of Daggers
Rand wields Callandor against Seanchan while Elayne and Egwene maneuver.
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