The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.
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The Call of the Wild
Stolen pet Buck learns club and fang on the Klondike trail from Perrault to Thornton and the wolves.
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The Casual Vacancy
Barry Fairbrother dies and leaves a Pagford council seat open, sparking an election, a class war over the Fields, and trouble for local teenagers.
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The Cat in the Hat
A tall Cat turns a rainy day upside down for Sally and her brother, with Thing One and Thing Two in tow.
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye explained: Holden's weekend in New York, the phony adults, Phoebe's carousel, and why readers keep coming back to him.
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The Client
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway learns a mob secret in Memphis and hires lawyer Reggie Love for one dollar.
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The Color of Magic
A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.
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The Color Purple
Celie writes letters to God and to her sister, surviving abuse in the rural South to find her own voice.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantes escapes Chateau d'If and returns as the Count to repay friends and ruin betrayers.
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The Couple Next Door
After a dinner next door, Anne and Marco find baby Cora gone and every neighbor has a motive.
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The Coworker
When odd accountant Dawn vanishes, star salesperson Natalie becomes the prime suspect in a tense office thriller with turtles, lies and revenge.
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The Crown of Gilded Bones
Poppy, crowned queen, faces war with the Ascended after Casteel is taken captive.
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