Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants retold: Jacob on a circus train, Marlena and Rosie, Prohibition era dust.
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Watership Down
Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.
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Ways of Seeing
Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.
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We Were Liars
Cadence Sinclair returns to Beechwood Island after an accident she cannot recall, chasing summers with Johnny, Mirren and Gat toward the truth.
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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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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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When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing: Kya the Marsh Girl, Tate and Chase, the 1969 murder in Barkley Cove, and what the trial misses.
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Sidewalk Ends retold: poems and drawings, Sarah Cynthia, unicorns, homework and giants.
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Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak follows Max in his wolf suit from mischief to a forest of Wild Things, through the wordless rumpus and back home to supper waiting still hot…
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica.
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