The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle's hungry caterpillar eats through the week and turns into a butterfly: what the holes, counts, and days teach, and why kids still ask for it again.
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The Way of Kings
A slave, a warlord, and a scholar thief collide on a storm battered world marching toward an old war.
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The Well of Ascension
After the Lord Ruler falls, Vin and Elend must hold Luthadel against three armies while a mist spirit hunts Vin and the Well of Ascension calls.
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The Wise Man's Fear
Kvothe leaves the University to serve Maer Alveron in Vintas, then survives Felurian, the Adem and a trial back home.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.
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Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins finds Flint's map, sails with Squire Trelawney's crew that hides pirates, and learns Long John Silver is both cook, friend, and mutineer.
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Turtles All the Way Down
Aza Holmes lives with intrusive thoughts while chasing a missing billionaire with Daisy.
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Twisted Hate
Jules Ambrose and Josh Chen turn years of hate into a risky arrangement that forces both to face old wounds.
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Watchmen
A full retelling of Alan Moore's Watchmen: a retired hero's death in 1985 America sparks a sprawling plot with an exiled god and a shocking bid for peace, from…
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica.
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Elphaba is born green in Oz and called wicked for refusing the Wizard in Maguire's 1995 novel.
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World War Z
A UN researcher collects survivor accounts from Patient Zero in China to Yonkers and the Redeker Plan, charting the zombie war.
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Yes Please
Amy Poehler moves from Boston childhood through UCB and SNL to Parks and Recreation in this 2014 memoir. Funny essays on work, motherhood, divorce, and saying…
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A Clockwork Orange
Teenage Alex leads his droogs on ultraviolent nights until the state rewrites him with the Ludovico Technique.
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A Dance with Dragons
Tyrion flees east, Dany chains her dragons in Meereen, and Jon holds the Wall as winter comes.
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A Feast for Crows
After the War of the Five Kings, Cersei seizes power while Brienne searches and the Ironborn rise.
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A Little Life
Four friends in New York orbit Jude, whose hidden past of abuse shapes every page of this 720-page epic.
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A Storm of Swords
Kings bleed, weddings turn red, and bastards rise as war splits Westeros.
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A Time to Kill
Lawyer Jake Brigance defends a father who killed his daughter's attackers.
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A Walk to Remember
Bad boy Landon falls for pastor's daughter Jamie in 1950s North Carolina.
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All Your Perfects
Quinn and Graham's perfect love frays under infertility, and they must decide what perfect means now.
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American Dirt
Lydia and Luca flee Acapulco after cartel murder and ride north through Mexico toward the US.
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Angela's Ashes
Frank recalls Brooklyn and Limerick childhood with Angela's struggle, Malachy's drink and stories that saved him.
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Anxious People
A failed bank robber takes eight strangers hostage at an apartment viewing, and nobody is who they seem.
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