The Two Towers
Frodo and Sam crawl toward Mordor with Gollum while Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli chase orcs across Rohan.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague.
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The Underground Railroad
Cora escapes Georgia on a literal railroad through states of terror and hope.
2,936-word summary · 13 min read
The Undomestic Goddess
A burned out London lawyer flees a career mistake and takes a housekeeper job she cannot do.
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The Unhoneymooners
Olive Torres takes her sister's Hawaii honeymoon with enemy Ethan Thomas after food poisoning ruins the wedding.
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The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle's hungry caterpillar eats through the week and turns into a butterfly: what the holes, counts, and days teach, and why kids still ask for it again.
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The Virgin Suicides
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
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The Viscount Who Loved Me
Anthony Bridgerton vows to marry without love until Kate Sheffield challenges him at every turn.
2,666-word summary · 12 min read
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's edge.
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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Vanessa Mazur quits assisting football star Aiden Graves, until he returns with a marriage proposal that changes both their plans.
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The War of the Worlds
A Surrey writer watches Martians land in cylinders, march on London in tripods, and fall to Earth's smallest life.
2,667-word summary · 12 min read