The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
A blocked writer tries to clear his mentor Harry Quebert after a girl missing since 1975 is found buried with his famous manuscript.
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The Turn of the Key
A nanny writes from prison about a smart Highland house, four girls, and the night one child died.
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The Turn of the Screw
A governess sees Quint and Jessel at Bly, or projects them; James never settles which, and Miles dies.
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The Tuscan Child
After her father's death, Joanna follows a returned letter to Tuscany and uncovers his wartime love, a hidden painting and a village secret. A dual-timeline…
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The Twelve
The middle volume of the Passage trilogy braids the year America died, a picnic massacre decades earlier, and the survivors' war against the twelve master…
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The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion
Official photo guide to the Breaking Dawn Part 1 film, from the wedding to Isle Esme to the birth scene crew work.
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The Twits
Mr. and Mrs. Twit trade vile pranks and torment caged monkeys until the birds and monkeys flip the house on them.
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The Two Towers
Frodo and Sam crawl toward Mordor with Gollum while Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli chase orcs across Rohan.
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The Ugly Truth
Greg faces puberty, a school lock-in and Uncle Gary's wedding while Mom returns to college in Wimpy Kid book five.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague.
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Sole survivor of a collapse that killed her friends, Mara Dyer moves to Miami, where visions that come true suggest her grief hides something darker.
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The Underground Railroad
Cora escapes Georgia on a literal railroad through states of terror and hope.
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The Undomestic Goddess
A burned out London lawyer flees a career mistake and takes a housekeeper job she cannot do.
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The Unhoneymooners
Olive Torres takes her sister's Hawaii honeymoon with enemy Ethan Thomas after food poisoning ruins the wedding.
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
A retired man in Devon walks to Berwick to visit a dying friend, hoping his steps keep her alive.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
A woman in a North Carolina flower-farming family walks through a red door into 1951, where she must solve her mother's disappearance and decide whether to…
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The Untethered Soul
Singer names the noisy inner voice and shows how watching thoughts, loosening old hurt, and keeping the heart open through surrender can ease daily suffering…
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The Upside of Falling
Two teens fake-date for a summer dare and end up facing grief, family secrets, and first love.
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The Valley of Horses
Exiled from the Clan, Ayla survives alone in a hidden valley, tames a horse and a cave lion, and nurses a wounded stranger back to life.
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The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
A grieving therapist buys a model home in a rainy valley where the walls leak ghosts.
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The Vampire Lestat
Lestat tells his own tale from French village to rock star, waking ancient ones who hate questions.
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The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white.
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The Vanishing Stair
Stevie Bell returns to Ellingham Academy under a secret bargain, chasing the truth about a 1936 kidnapping while a new death makes the school feel smaller and…
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The Vegetarian
After a bloody dream, Yeong-hye stops eating meat, and her ordinary marriage cracks open in Han Kang's spare and unsettling novel.
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