The House of Eve
Two Black women in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, one a pregnant teenager and one a doctor's wife who cannot carry a child, are pulled together by a…
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The House of Hades
Percy and Annabeth cross Tartarus while the five close the Doors of Death before Gaea wakes.
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The House of Mirth
Lily Bart, beautiful and penniless at twenty-nine, navigates New York's marriage market until a Dorset yacht scandal strips her of the only currency she has.
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The House of the Scorpion
A clone raised in a drug lord's poppy fields learns what he was made for and chooses what to do with the life he was given.
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The House of the Spirits
Three generations of the Trueba family face love, ghosts and a coup, from Rosa's strange death to Alba's prison cell.
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The House on Mango Street
Esperanza Cordero grows up on Mango Street in Chicago, watching neighbors closely while dreaming of a house of her own.
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The House We Grew Up In
The Bird family of the Cotswolds breaks apart after a suicide and spends twenty years not talking about what happened.
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The Housemaid
The Housemaid retold: Millie cleans for the Winchesters, locked doors, twists in Long Island.
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The Housemaid's Secret
Millie takes a job for the Garricks and hears strange crying behind doors.
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The Humans
An alien borrows Andrew Martin's life to erase a proof, then a dog, peanut butter, and a tired family win him over.
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Quasimodo loves Esmeralda from the bells while Frollo lusts and Gringoire watches Paris burn in 1482.
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
On his 100th birthday Allan Karlsson climbs out of his care home window and pockets a gangster fortune, while flashbacks trace his explosive century.
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games explained: the reaping, Rue, the tracker jackers, the nightlock berry standoff, and what the arena is really for.
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The Hunger Games Tribute Guide
The official 2012 companion to the first Hunger Games film profiles all twenty-four tributes and walks through the reaping, training, and interviews.
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The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion
Behind the scenes guide to the 2012 film, from casting and sets to costumes and arena effects.
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The Hunt for Red October
Soviet captain Ramius defects with stealth sub Red October while Jack Ryan must prove intent.
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The Hunting Party
Nine Oxford friends gather at a remote Scottish lodge for New Year, where old rivalries and secrets end in murder.
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The Huntress
A Soviet night pilot, a Boston photographer doubting her stepmother Annelise, and a Nazi hunter chase Die Jagerin from wartime Europe to 1950 Boston in a long…
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The Husband's Secret
Cecilia finds a letter meant to be opened after her husband's death, and reads it while he lives.
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The Hypnotist's Love Story
A hypnotherapist falls for a widower whose ex keeps watching from the shadows.
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The Icebound Land
Captured and enslaved in Skandia, Will fights a drug that erases him while Halt and Horace cut a bloody road through Gallica to bring him home.
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The Idea of You
A thirty nine gallery owner falls for a twenty pop star and pays.
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The Identicals
Twin sisters swap Nantucket and Martha Vineyard lives for a summer.
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The Idiot
A Turkish-American freshman at Harvard falls in love through email with a Hungarian math student and spends a summer in Hungary trying to turn correspondence…
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