The Green Mile
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
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The Heir
Princess Eadlyn holds her own Selection with 35 suitors while Illea rebels.
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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 Horse and His Boy
Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
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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 Importance of Being Earnest
Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses.
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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 Last Lecture
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
A con artist targets a rich wife, then the marriage game turns with a hidden past.
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The Last Wish
Geralt hunts strigas genies and golden dragons while Law of Surprise binds Ciri.
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The Lean Startup
Ries lays out Build-Measure-Learn, MVPs, pivots and validated learning for building companies under extreme uncertainty.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo teaches the KonMari method: keep only what sparks joy, tidied by category for a lasting home reset.
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The Locked Door
Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.
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The Lorax
The Once-ler fells Truffula Trees for Thneed greed despite the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, warning him to stop.
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The Lucky One
Marine Logan finds photo lucky and seeks Beth in North Carolina.
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The Maidens
Therapist Mariana hunts Cambridge professor Edward Fosca after a Maidens murder.
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The Master and Margarita
Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.
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The Name of the Rose
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
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The Nanny Diaries
NYU student Nan nannies four-year-old Grayer X on Park Avenue, caught between a demanding Mrs. X, an absent Mr. X, and a lonely child who needs her more than…
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The Only One Left
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
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The Outsider
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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The Paper Palace
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
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The Power of Now
Tolle argues pain comes from mind chatter and peace from full attention to now.
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