The Thirteenth Tale
A dying novelist tells her true story at last to a bookseller's daughter, and the mystery of the Angelfield twins comes into the open.
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A dying novelist tells her true story at last to a bookseller's daughter, and the mystery of the Angelfield twins comes into the open.
2,928-word summary · 13 min read
Meggie loves priest Ralph across decades on Drogheda sheep station.
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Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.
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Carter and Sadie Kane have five days to wake the sun god Ra before the serpent Apophis breaks free and eats the world.
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Mitch Albom's 2012 fable follows Dor, the first measurer of time punished in a cave, as he returns to guide a heartbroken teen and a dying businessman toward…
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Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
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Geralt and Yennefer shelter Ciri as mages split and war breaks over the Thanedd coup.
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When his mother falls ill with a fairy disease, Artemis Fowl travels back in time to find the extinct lemur that can cure her and confronts his younger self.
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Niffenegger's Time Traveler's Wife retold: Henry's jumps, Clare waiting, art, and a marriage in two tenses.
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How tiny shifts push ideas and products past a tipping point into epidemics.
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Percy joins a winter quest to save Annabeth and Artemis with Thalia, Grover, Bianca and Zoe, facing Atlas and Luke under a hard Oracle prophecy on Mount…
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After Endura sinks and the Thunderhead falls silent, Greyson Tolliver becomes its sole voice while Citra and Rowan fight to return.
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Priestess Arha guards dark Tombs until wizard Ged comes to steal back ring.
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A Maine town digs up a ship and gets brilliant, toothless and cruel.
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Dave Ramsey lays out seven Baby Steps, from a $1,000 starter fund to a paid-off house, with the debt snowball at the center.
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Ciri flees as a bandit while Geralt gathers allies to find her.
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Exiled Lara returns to free Aren and break her father hold.
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A Dublin Murder Squad detective investigates a staged dinner-party killing and finds a cover-up that reaches into her own department.
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Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.
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A Boy Scout troop on a Canadian island takes in a stranger who cannot stop eating, and the worm inside him turns a camping trip into a war.
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A grieving teen trades a dull library summer for catering work and learns to let people in again.
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