The Grim Grotto
Snicket eleventh Baudelaire book, Sept 2004 HarperCollins, 323 pages: the Queequeg crew, Gorgonian Grotto fungus, Fiona choice, and Sunny wasabi cure that…
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The Grownup
A fake psychic takes Susan Burke's haunted house job at Carterhook Manor and meets stepson Miles. Flynn's Edgar-winning short story retold in full.
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The Guardian
Widowed at twenty-five, Julie Barenson leans on a Great Dane named Singer, then dates two men and learns one of them is a killer.
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The Guardians
A innocence lawyer reopens a prison murder where the wrong man waits on death row.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A London writer trades letters with Guernsey islanders after the war.
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The Guest
Cast out of her wealthy boyfriend's Hamptons house, twenty-two-year-old Alex spends five days talking her way through other people's homes and accounts.
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The Guest List
A storm traps Jules and Will's luxury wedding on remote Cormorant Island off Ireland, where secrets among Hannah, Olivia, Johnno and Aoife turn celebration…
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The Guncle
A sitcom star takes his niece and nephew for a summer and learns presence beats punchlines.
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The Gunslinger
Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.
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The Hammer of Thor
Magnus and Sam chase Thor's stolen hammer to a giant wedding heist, with Alex Fierro joining Floor Nineteen as Loki bargains and Ragnarok stirs.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale retold: Offred in Gilead, the Commander, Serena Joy, Mayday, and the van.
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The Happiest Man on Earth
Eddie Jaku's memoir follows a Leipzig childhood, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, a death march, and the slow rebuilding of a life in Australia.
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The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin spends a year testing monthly resolutions on energy, marriage, work, parenting, and play, tracking small habits to build a happier ordinary…
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The Happy Ever After Playlist
Sloan takes in a lost dog while grieving her fiance, then falls for its owner, a touring musician, through texts and playlists.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
A founder and CEO writes about the parts of running a company that no framework can fix, from layoffs and demotions to the loneliness of the job.
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The Hate U Give
Starr Carter sees her friend Khalil shot by police and must choose whether to speak up.
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The Hating Game
Two executive assistants share an office, a rivalry, and a promotion neither will concede without a fight.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Eleanor joins a ghost study at Hill House, bonds fast with Theodora, and feels the house single her out by name.
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The Hawthorne Legacy
Avery hunts for lost Toby Hawthorne while old wills, postcards and a violent rival force her to face what the inheritance really costs.
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The Hazel Wood
Alice Proserpine has spent her life running from bad luck. When her mother vanishes, she follows a trail of fairy-tale clues to her grandmother's estate and…
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A deaf man becomes the quiet center for lonely souls in a small Georgia mill town.
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The Heart Principle
Violinist Anna Sun plans one night with Quan Diep, then faces autistic burnout and family duty after her father's stroke in Hoang's 352-page 2021 Berkley…
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne follows Cyril Avery, adopted in Dublin in 1945, through seventy years of love and secrecy as Ireland changes around him and he learns to live openly.
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
In a 1930s company town, Black and Jewish neighbors hide a deaf boy from the state and pay for it for years.
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