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 House of Hades
Percy and Annabeth cross Tartarus while the five close the Doors of Death before Gaea wakes.
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The Iliad
Achilles quits the fight over Briseis, Patroclus falls to Hector, and Troy burns toward its fate in Homer's war epic.
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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 Light Between Oceans
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.
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The Mistake
Logan chases Grace for a second chance after one thoughtless night while graduation pressure builds.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Mary Boleyn tells how she and sister Anne loved Henry VIII and paid for ambition at the Tudor court.
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The Pelican Brief
Law student Darby Shaw writes a brief on murdered justices and becomes a target, fleeing with a reporter.
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The Screwtape Letters
A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention.
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The Secret
Byrne argues like attracts like and teaches ask, believe, and receive for money, health, and love.
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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Human Oraya enters the vampire Kejari tournament with rival Raihn while her father watches from the House of Night.
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Aiden relives a murder day in eight hosts to solve Evelyn Hardcastle's killing.
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The Story of Art
Gombrich traces art from cave painting to modernism with clear stories and famous images.
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The Subtle Knife
Will finds a window to Cittagazze, meets Lyra, and both hunt the knife that cuts between worlds.
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The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Five wizard fairy tales from Hermione book, with Dumbledore notes, including the Three Brothers and the Hallows.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague.
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The Underground Railroad
Cora escapes Georgia on a literal railroad through states of terror and hope.
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The Viscount Who Loved Me
Anthony Bridgerton vows to marry without love until Kate Sheffield challenges him at every turn.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's edge.
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The Woman in Me
Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and freedom.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.
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Too Late
Sloan is trapped with drug lord Asa until undercover Luke offers a way out.
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