The Wee Free Men
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching teams with the Nac Mac Feegle to rescue her brother from the Fairy Queen.
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The Well of Ascension
After the Lord Ruler falls, Vin and Elend must hold Luthadel against three armies while a mist spirit hunts Vin and the Well of Ascension calls.
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The Westing Game
Sixteen strangers in Sunset Towers inherit a puzzle from the dead Samuel W. Westing. Thirteen-year-old Turtle Wexler outthinks them all to reach the answer.
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The Whisper Man
Widower Tom Kennedy moves with his son Jake to Featherbank, where a child killer called the Whisper Man once hunted. When boys vanish again, Tom must face old…
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The Whistler
A Florida judicial investigator takes a bribery tip that leads to a crooked judge, a tribal casino, and murder.
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The White Queen
Elizabeth Woodville secretly marries Edward IV and fights to keep her children safe as earls turn and kings fall. Told in her voice, it mixes court politics…
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The White Tiger
A poor driver writes to the Chinese Premier about rich masters, corruption, and murder.
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The Wicked King
Jude must hold Cardan on the Elfhame throne while the Undersea plots.
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The Wide Window
The Baudelaires brave Aunt Josephine, Captain Sham and leech-filled Lake Lachrymose.
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The Widow
A widow of a suspected criminal faces reporters and police while hiding what her marriage really cost.
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The Wife Between Us
A jealous ex-wife stalks her replacement, but nothing in this marriage is what it seems.
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The Wife Upstairs
A struggling dog walker falls for a wealthy widower in Alabama, but his missing wife may still be alive upstairs.
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The Wind in the Willows
Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad mess about in boats, lose themselves in the Wild Wood, and retake Toad Hall.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
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The Winner's Curse
An aristocratic girl buys a slave who is secretly a prince plotting rebellion.
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The Winners
Two years on, Beartown opens a new rink, welcomes Maya and Benji home, and faces money fights and a gun at the ice.
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The Wise Man's Fear
Kvothe leaves the University to serve Maer Alveron in Vintas, then survives Felurian, the Adem and a trial back home.
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The Wish
A dying photographer recalls 1996 Ocracoke first love and an adoption choice.
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The Wishing Game
A broke teacher's aide hoping to adopt a grieving seven-year-old gets invited to Clock Island to compete for a reclusive author's only new book.
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The Wishing Spell
Twins Alex and Conner fall through a book of fairy tales and must gather eight keepsakes to get home.
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The Witch Elm
Toby Hennessy has always been lucky, until a beating leaves his memory full of holes and a skull turns up in the garden of the family home. A stand-alone novel…
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A Barbados girl learns work in Puritan Connecticut and stands by a Quaker.
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The Witches
A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.
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The Witching Hour
A San Francisco surgeon inherits a haunted New Orleans house where a spirit has courted her witches for centuries, until a Christmas Eve birth gives it living…
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