The Reptile Room
Baudelaires find kind Uncle Monty until Olaf returns as assistant Stephano.
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The Republic
Socrates debates justice and sketches a city ruled by philosophers, with the cave and the soul.
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The Republic of Thieves
Locke and Jean rig an election while Locke faces Sabetha, his lost love and rival.
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The Rescue
Volunteer fireman Taylor finds a crashed mother and son in a storm, then falls for them both.
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Arthur Dent flees Vogons, dines at Milliways at the end of time, and strands on prehistoric Earth in Adams' sharp 1980 sequel.
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The Return of the King
Frodo and Sam reach Mount Doom while Aragorn claims Gondor and Pippin and Merry fight at Minas Tirith.
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The Richest Man in Babylon
Clason's 1926 Babylon parables: Arkad's seven cures, the five laws of gold, and Dabasir's climb out of debt, retold with what still works.
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The Right Move
Grumpy ball star and sunny flight attendant fake date for cameras and keep every rule but one.
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
A Berlin correspondent turned historian traces Nazi Germany from beer halls to bunker using eyewitness memory and captured German records.
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The Rise of Nine
John, Six and Nine race to India to find Eight before the Mogs strike.
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The Risk
Brenna needs a fake boyfriend for an internship interview and picks rival star Jake, who wants real dates in return.
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The Risk
Quiet Lana hunts past attackers by night while falling for Logan Bennett, the FBI agent tracking her.
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The Ritual
Blakely chosen for lord game seeks mother truth with Ryat breaking her.
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The Road
A father and son walk through ash America with a cart and a pistol, repeating carry the fire.
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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
M. Scott Peck argues that maturity begins with accepting difficulty, then builds discipline, love, and spiritual growth through honest, often painful work.
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The Road Trip
Two exes squeeze into one small car for the drive to a Scottish wedding, with four years of history and one photograph between them.
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The Roommate
Uptight Clara shares a flat with porn star Josh and teams up to build ethical adult films for women.
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The Rooster Bar
Three law students buried in debt discover their for-profit law school is a scam, and decide the only way out is to con their way into practicing law before…
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The Rose & the Dagger
Shahrzad is pulled from her Caliph husband and left in a desert camp of rebels, needing to break his curse and end a war before it ends her.
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The Rose Code
Three Bletchley Park women reunite in 1947 to expose a wartime traitor in Quinn's codebreaking novel.
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The Rosie Effect
Married in New York, Don Tillman turns Rosie's pregnancy into research and nearly loses her, until a crisis forces him to listen.
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The Rosie Project
Melbourne genetics professor Don Tillman launches the Wife Project to find a partner by questionnaire, then meets chaotic Rosie Jarman and agrees to help her…
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The Round House
At thirteen, Joe Coutts hunts for his mother's attacker when the law stalls, in Louise Erdrich's National Book Award novel of family, jurisdiction, and revenge…
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The Ruins of Gorlan
Small orphan Will becomes Ranger Halt's apprentice and helps hunt the Kalkara at Gorlan.
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