The Wives
A woman who sees her husband only on Thursdays tracks down his other wives and learns her marriage is not what she believed.
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The Woman in Cabin 10
Journalist Lo sees a body thrown from a luxury cabin, then learns no passenger is missing.
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The Woman in Me
Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and freedom.
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The Woman in the Window
Agoraphobic Anna Fox thinks she sees a murder across the street in Harlem.
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The Woman in White
A drawing teacher and Marian Halcombe fight a forged register to prove Laura is alive.
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The Women
Nurse Frankie McGrath serves in Vietnam and fights to be seen at home.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.
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The Woods
Twenty years after two teenagers were murdered and two vanished at summer camp, prosecutor Paul Copeland identifies a fresh corpse as one of the missing.
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The World According to Garp
Writer Garp navigates fame, marriage, and loss with bears and wrestling.
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman's 2005 bestseller argues that technology, trade, and open borders leveled the global playing field, and it names the ten forces that did it.
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The Wrath and the Dawn
Shahrzad marries a king who executes each bride at dawn, hoping to stay alive through stories. A lush Arabian Nights retelling about grief, trust, and palace…
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The Wright Brothers
David McCullough tells the story of two self-taught Ohio brothers, working largely alone and out of a bicycle shop, who solved the problem of flight before…
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The Year of Magical Thinking
After sudden loss at dinner, Didion records the year mind keeps expecting return.
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The Year of the Flood
Toby and Ren live through the plague apart, guided by God's Gardeners, then join to find Amanda.
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
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The Young Elites
Adelina survives fever and execution to join a secret group of gifted malfettos plotting against the queen of Kenettra.
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The Younger Wife
A Melbourne surgeon announces he is divorcing his wife, who has Alzheimer's, to marry a woman his daughters' age, and the family's buried violence surfaces.
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Max Brooks's deadpan survival manual explains the Solanum virus, the only ways to destroy the living dead, fortifying a home, and the outbreaks history quietly…
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
The directors of the Warsaw Zoo hid roughly three hundred Jews in empty cages and outbuildings after the German invasion, while Jan worked for the resistance.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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Then She Was Gone
Ten years after Ellie vanished, her mother finds a link in a new family.
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There Are No Saints
Two rival artists circle a struggling San Francisco painter. Cole Blackwell wants her, Alastor Shaw wants her dead. Book one of the Sinners duet.
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There There
Twelve Native characters converge on a powwow in Oakland in Tommy Orange's 2018 debut about identity, family, and survival.
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These Hollow Vows
Brie trades with the Unseelie to save her sister and steals for a prince.
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