The Velveteen Rabbit
A toy rabbit becomes real through a boy love, illness, and grace that finishes what wear started.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle's hungry caterpillar eats through the week and turns into a butterfly: what the holes, counts, and days teach, and why kids still ask for it again.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
A lonely witch tutors three young witches at a hidden house and falls for their prickly librarian.
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The Vile Village
Three orphans raised by a rule bound village find hidden friends and a sky escape in book seven.
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The Villa
Two friends house-sit a haunted Italian villa tied to a 1974 rock murder while their own bond frays.
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The Virgin Suicides
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
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The Viscount Who Loved Me
Anthony Bridgerton vows to marry without love until Kate Sheffield challenges him at every turn.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's edge.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Thirty starved men reach Brazil as heroes in 1742, then three more land in Chile calling them mutineers, and Grann sorts the wreck.
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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Vanessa Mazur quits assisting football star Aiden Graves, until he returns with a marriage proposal that changes both their plans.
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The War of Art
Pressfield names Resistance and urges daily professional work.
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The War of the Worlds
A Surrey writer watches Martians land in cylinders, march on London in tripods, and fall to Earth's smallest life.
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The War of Two Queens
Caged Poppy endures Blood Queen while Casteel marches and gods wake.
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The War That Saved My Life
Ten-year-old Ada has never left her London flat, hidden away because of her clubfoot. Wartime evacuation sends her to Kent, where a reluctant guardian and a…
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The Warded Man
Each night demons rise and humanity hides behind wards. Three young survivors choose to fight back in Brett's 2008 fantasy opener.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Three migrants ride north out of Jim Crow toward Chicago and LA.
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The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks's 1984 debut follows Frank Cauldhame, an isolated sixteen-year-old on a Scottish island, as his brother's escape and a family secret unravel his…
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The Waste Lands
Jake rejoins ka tet through Lud toward Blaine riddle ride.
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The Water Dancer
An enslaved man with a strange power for travel fights to free himself and rescue those he loves.
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The Way I Used to Be
Eden is assaulted at fourteen and spends high school in silence, anger and slow steps toward speaking out. Amber Smith follows her from freshman to senior year…
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The Way of Kings
A slave, a warlord, and a scholar thief collide on a storm battered world marching toward an old war.
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The Way of Shadows
Street rat Azoth trades his old life to train as Kylar under killer Durzo Blint, learning wetboy skills and costly Talent as war threatens Cenaria.
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The Wedding
Wilson Lewis courts his own wife again with Noah's help as daughter Anna plans her wedding.
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The Wedding Date
Stuck elevator strangers trade wedding dates and calendars with kissing.
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