The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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The Kiss Quotient
Stella Lane hires escort Michael Phan to practice dating and learns logic fails where touch and family press in.
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner retold: Amir and Hassan in Kabul, the alley, the escape to America, and the return to find Sohrab.
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The Last Lecture
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
A con artist targets a rich wife, then the marriage game turns with a hidden past.
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The Last Olympian
Percy Jackson turns sixteen as Kronos marches on Manhattan, forcing Camp Half-Blood into a final stand for Olympus beside Annabeth as the old prophecy demands…
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The Last Song
Angry teen Ronnie spends a summer in Wilmington with her pianist father, finding first love, family repair, and loss.
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The Last Thing He Told Me
Hannah Hall gets a note saying Protect her, then her husband vanishes and she must team with his teen daughter to find why.
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The Last Wish
Geralt hunts strigas genies and golden dragons while Law of Surprise binds Ciri.
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The Lean Startup
Ries lays out Build-Measure-Learn, MVPs, pivots and validated learning for building companies under extreme uncertainty.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo teaches the KonMari method: keep only what sparks joy, tidied by category for a lasting home reset.
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