The Tale of Despereaux
A bookish mouse, a light loving rat, and a servant girl meet in a castle where soup is banned to save Princess Pea.
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Peter Rabbit disobeys his mother, squeezes under the gate into Mr. McGregor garden, and ends in a chase back home to chamomile tea.
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The Tale of the Body Thief
Lestat trades bodies with a psychic thief for one day of mortality and ends up trapped, sick, and hunting his own vampire body.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
A small-time con man is sent to bring a rich man's son home from Italy and decides to become him instead. Highsmith's amoral classic of the first antihero.
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Five wizard fairy tales from Hermione book, with Dumbledore notes, including the Three Brothers and the Hallows.
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The Talisman
Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer flips between America and the Territories to find a Talisman that can save his dying mother.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Petruchio woos sharp-tongued Kate while suitors scheme for sweet Bianca in Shakespeare's rowdy early comedy of marriage and disguise, first printed in 1623.
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The Tao of Pooh
Hoff explains Taoism through Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore in gentle chats.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris retells the years of Lale Sokolov as tattooist at Auschwitz Birkenau, his love for Gita Furman, and the food trades and quiet risks that kept…
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
A Chinese tea farming mother gives up a daughter who later seeks roots.
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Mad narrators, Dupin puzzles, mournful poems, and Pym in one Bantam collection.
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The Tempest
Prospero raises a storm to wreck his enemies on his island, where his daughter meets a prince and old wrongs face trial.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
A ward in a mansion finds a book about doors to other worlds that turns out to be her own family history.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Helen flees a cruel marriage, hides as Helen Graham at Wildfell Hall, and tells her full story through a long diary young Gilbert Markham must read before…
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The Tenth Circle
After Trixie accuses Jason of rape and he dies off a bridge, parents Daniel and Laura hide guilt and grace in Alaska flight.
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The Testament
John Grisham's The Testament sends washed-up lawyer Nate O'Riley to the Brazil Pantanal to find missionary heir Rachel Lane and settle her…
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The Testaments
Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.
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The Therapist
A couple moves to a gated street where the previous therapist was murdered in their house.
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The Thief
A boastful young thief is pulled from a prison to steal a legendary stone for the king's magus, and the story he tells about himself is not the whole story.
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The Thief Lord
Orphaned brothers join a gang of Venice street kids and a masked Thief Lord, chasing a magic merry-go-round that can change a person's age.
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The Things They Carried
Alpha Company humps through Vietnam carrying rifles, letters, and guilt. O'Brien's linked 1990 collection asks what a true war story really tells.
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The Things We Cannot Say
A Florida mother travels to Poland to answer her silent grandmother's plea, uncovering a wartime love story and a decades-old identity swap.
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The Things We Leave Unfinished
Georgia Stanton and Noah Harrison finish Scarlett's last novel while her WWII romance with pilot Jameson unfolds in letters. A dual timeline story of grief,…
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The Third Wheel
Greg tries to find a date for the Valentine's dance, ends up the third wheel in his own plan, and watches Rowley get the girl.
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