We Were the Lucky Ones
Based on her own family, Hunter follows the Kurc family of Radom as war scatters five siblings from Siberia to Brazil and back toward reunion.
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We Were the Mulvaneys
After a rape following a school dance, the Mulvaneys, a family that believed it was blessed, comes apart over fifteen years. Narrated by the youngest son.
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We'll Always Have Summer
Belly must choose between Conrad and Jeremiah after two years with Jeremiah and a wedding plan at Cousins.
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Wedding Night
Lottie marries an old flame days after a breakup, then flies to a Greek island while her sister quietly works to sabotage the honeymoon. A farce about memory,…
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West With Giraffes
A teen drives two hurricane giraffes cross country to San Diego Zoo.
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Weyward
Three Weyward women across centuries heal with herbs while accused.
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What Alice Forgot
After a gym fall erases ten years, Alice, 39, wakes as her 29 year old self and must relearn her three kids and failing marriage as a stranger.
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What Happened to Goodbye
Mclean has reinvented herself in four towns since her parents divorced. In Lakeview she uses her real name, and for the first time staying put becomes a choice.
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What Happened to You?
Oprah Winfrey and psychiatrist Bruce Perry explain how early experience shapes the brain, and why asking what happened to someone works better than asking what…
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Murakami connects daily running to writing novels, from his jazz club years to marathons and a 62-mile ultramarathon, with frank notes on aging. A quiet memoir…
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What If It's Us
Two teens meet by chance at a New York post office and try to turn missed connection into first love.
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe of xkcd answers absurd science questions with real physics, rough math and stick figures, from relativistic baseball to draining the oceans.…
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What Lies Between Us
Nina keeps mother Maggie locked upstairs for years, trading lies about sisters and deaths that unravel fast.
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What Lies in the Woods
Naomi returns after Olivia vanishes to face what happened in the woods at eleven.
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What Moves the Dead
Alex Easton arrives at the Usher house to find Madeline dying, the tarn full of fungus, and the local hares refusing to stay dead.
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What She Knew
Rachel lets her eight-year-old son run ahead in a Bristol park, and the nine-day search turns her into a suspect in the public eye.
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Nineteen New Yorker essays on pitchmen, ketchup, Enron, profiling, late bloomers and the limits of prediction, arranged in three parts.
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What the Wind Knows
Annie scatters her grandfather's ashes on Lough Gill and is pulled into 1921 Ireland, where she becomes the missing Anne Gallagher and falls for Dr. Thomas…
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When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.
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When He Was Wicked
Widowed Francesca Bridgerton falls for her late husband cousin Michael, who loved her silently for years.
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When in Rome
A burnt-out pop star hides out in small-town Kentucky and falls for the grumpy pie-shop owner hiding her.
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When No One Is Watching
Sydney Green watches her Brooklyn block's Black residents vanish one by one in Cole's Edgar-winning thriller about gentrification as a crime scene.
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When the Moon Hatched
An assassin who hears air takes a job that throws her to dragons and a hunter.
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When We Believed in Mermaids
ER doctor Kit flies to New Zealand when fire victim may be sister Josie.
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