The Island of Sea Women
On Jeju island, haenyeo divers Young-sook and Mi-ja share decades of friendship strained by war and massacre.
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The It Girl
Ten years after April murder at Oxford, new claims of innocence force pregnant Hannah to rethink friends.
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The Japanese Lover
A Polish refugee and the son of a Japanese gardener fall in love in San Francisco in 1939, then keep the affair secret for nearly seventy years.
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The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.
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The Joy of Cooking
First self-published in 1931, this one-volume kitchen teacher shows how to learn skills, follow its action format, and pick an edition.
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The Judge's List
Lacy Stoltz hunts a sitting judge who murders off his list.
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The Jungle
Jurgis Rudkus follows work to Chicago packinghouses, watches his family wear down from low pay and foul food, and ends by joining the socialists.
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The Jungle Book
Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Seeonee Hills, learns the Law from Baloo and Bagheera while Shere Khan circles. Kipling's 1894 story collection.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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The Keeper
Retired cop Cal Hooper faces one last killing in his Irish village.
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The Keeper of Happy Endings
Barbara Davis's 2021 standalone braids a Paris dressmaker's wartime losses with a grieving Boston artist who unlocks her family's secrets through an old row…
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The Keeper of Lost Things
An old writer collects lost objects and leaves the quest to his housekeeper.
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The Kill Order
Mark survives flares and Flare virus as WICKED forms thirteen years before maze.
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The Kind Worth Killing
A plane seat chat about murder becomes a pact, then a game where no one tells the full truth.
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The Kiss of Deception
Princess Lia flees an arranged marriage and hides in a village, unaware one stranger is a prince and the other an assassin.
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The Kiss Quotient
Stella Lane hires escort Michael Phan to practice dating and learns logic fails where touch and family press in.
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The Kiss Thief
Promised to one man, taken by another, Francesca must choose in Chicago.
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The Kitchen House
Irish orphan Lavinia is raised by enslaved cooks in the kitchen house, then torn between that family and the big house.
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner retold: Amir and Hassan in Kabul, the alley, the escape to America, and the return to find Sohrab.
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The Knife of Never Letting Go
Todd Hewitt flees Prentisstown with silent Viola as Noise exposes the town lie, hunted by Aaron and Mayor Prentiss toward Haven and a cure rumor.
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The Lake House
Detective Sadie reopens 1933 Edevane baby vanishing tied to writer Alice.
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The Language of Flowers
Aged out of foster care, a guarded florist speaks through blooms while pushing away the one man who stays.
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The Last Anniversary
A single woman inherits island house and unknots a vanished baby story.
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The Last Battle
Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.
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