The Memory Keeper's Daughter
On a snowy night a doctor gives away his newborn daughter and tells his wife she died.
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The Paris Apartment
Jess finds her brother missing in Paris where every neighbor hides something.
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The Power of Habit
Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste to the bus boycott.
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The Rosie Project
Melbourne genetics professor Don Tillman launches the Wife Project to find a partner by questionnaire, then meets chaotic Rosie Jarman and agrees to help her…
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The Scorch Trials
Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.
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The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling seeks Hannibal Lecter's help to catch Buffalo Bill before Catherine Martin runs out of time.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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The Thursday Murder Club
Four residents of Coopers Chase meet weekly to solve cold cases until developer Tony Curran is murdered and the Thursday Murder Club must work with police…
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The Time Machine
Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
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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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