The Lost Apothecary
A hidden 1791 apothecary poisons cruel men, and two centuries later an historian uncovers her trail.
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The Lost Bookshop
A modern woman in Dublin chases the mystery of a vanished bookshop, uncovering a 1920s bookseller and a missing girl. Magic, grief, and old letters tie the two…
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann retraces Percy Fawcett's 1925 disappearance in the Amazon and finds that the lost city he sought was not entirely a fantasy.
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The Lost Colony
Artemis and Holly chase returning demons while a rival genius risks everything for fame.
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The Lost Girls of Paris
In 1946, a war widow finds an abandoned suitcase in Grand Central holding photographs of twelve women who vanished in the war, and follows their story back to…
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The Lost Hero
Jason wakes with no memory while Piper and Leo learn they are demigods sent to free Hera.
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The Lost Man
A man is found dead at a lone grave in the Queensland outback, his car stocked and kilometres away. His brother works out the last day and the family behind it.
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The Lost Sisters
Taryn Duarte writes a letter to her twin, Jude, explaining how she fell for Locke and why she stayed silent while he used them both.
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The Lost Symbol
Langdon races through Washington to save Solomon from a tattooed killer seeking an ancient Masonic secret.
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The Lost World
Malcolm lives after all and returns to Site B where engineered herds eat themselves and Dodgson steals eggs.
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The Lottery
In Jackson's 1948 story, a village draws lots to keep the corn heavy, and the chosen person is stoned by her neighbors.
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The Love Hypothesis
Love Hypothesis retold: Olive fakes dating Adam, lab hijinks, consent talks, Boston fall.
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones retold: Susie watches from above as her family hunts her killer.
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The Lowland
Two brothers grow up beside a marshy lowland in Calcutta, and the choices of the younger one draw the older into a life of duty, distance, and quiet grief that…
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The Lucky One
Marine Logan finds photo lucky and seeks Beth in North Carolina.
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The Lying Game
Isa returns to Salten with her baby when bones surface in the marsh and force four school friends to face what they buried.
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The Maddest Obsession
Sharp-tongued Gianna spars with secretive Christian Allister in this 2019 Made #2 mafia romance, where teasing hides danger and lies.
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The Magic of Thinking Big
Schwartz's 1959 self-help classic argues that success follows from the size of your thinking, supported by sales anecdotes, vocabulary drills and goal setting.
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The Magician
Sophie and Josh flee to Paris with Nicholas Flamel, where John Dee, Machiavelli, and an awakened god close in on the missing pages of the Codex.
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The Magician King
Quentin rules a peaceful Fillory until a golden key strands him on Earth, while Julia's brutal road from hedge witch to demigod rewrites the whole story.
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The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing creation, and the apple…
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The Magicians
Quentin learns real magic at Brakebills, wastes talent in New York, then finds Fillory rotting.
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The Magnolia Story
How Chip and Joanna Gaines met, closed their first shop, nearly lost everything in a housing development, and built Fixer Upper.
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The Maid
Hotel maid Molly Gray finds a dead guest and must use her eye for detail to clear herself.
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