The Heir
Princess Eadlyn holds her own Selection with 35 suitors while Illea rebels.
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The Heiress
A missing heiress returns to claim a mansion full of letters and lies.
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett's The Help retold: Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter in 1962 Jackson, the interviews, and the book that breaks the town open.
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The Henna Artist
In 1950s Jaipur, a henna artist to rich women rebuilds her life until the sister she never knew arrives.
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The Hero of Ages
Vin and Elend face ash, mist, and Ruin itself as the prophecies fail and Sazed searches old faiths for answers.
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The Hidden Oracle
Apollo lands as a teen in New York with no powers and must earn his way back with Meg and demigods.
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.
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The Historian
A daughter traces her father's search for Dracula through letters and archives across Europe.
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The History of Love
An elderly locksmith and a grieving teenage girl in New York are joined by a lost manuscript published in Spanish under another man's name.
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The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins
Rateliff traces every draft of Bilbo from 1930 notes to print.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide retold: Earth's end, Ford, Zaphod, Marvin, and the answer 42.
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The Hobbit
The Hobbit from Bag End to the Lonely Mountain: Bilbo's riddle game with Gollum, Smaug, the Battle of Five Armies, and how the fairy tale sets up The Lord of…
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
The 1611 King James Bible in a 1,472-page Thomas Nelson edition: from Genesis to Revelation, law, prophets, Gospels, and letters.
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The Horse and His Boy
Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.
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The Host
Stephenie Meyer imagines Earth settled by Souls, where Wanderer wakes inside Melanie Stryder and hears her voice refuse to fade, sparking a desert flight to…
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The Hostile Hospital
The Baudelaires hide in half-built Heimlich Hospital, uncover a thirteen-page file hinting a parent survived, and flee Olaf's surgery trap through fire.
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The Hot Zone
Ebola and Marburg move from African outbreaks to a Virginia monkey house and an Army response in suits.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
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The Hours
Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel braids three lives around Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: the author in 1923, a reader in 1949, and an editor in 1990s New York.
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The House Across the Lake
A widowed actress watching the couple across Lake Greene sees a disappearance that drags her own drowned husband back up.
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The House at Pooh Corner
Tigger bounces into the Hundred Acre Wood while Pooh builds Eeyore a house and Piglet does a grand thing.
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The House at Riverton
In 1999, ninety eight year old maid Grace Bradley tapes the truth about a 1924 shooting at Riverton Manor, poet Robbie Hunter, two sisters and a lie held for…
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
Caseworker Linus Baker inspects an orphanage of dangerous magical children and finds a family instead.
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The House in the Pines
Maya's best friend died at seventeen; seven years later a video of Frank with another dead girl pulls her home.
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