The Housemaid's Secret
Millie takes a job for the Garricks and hears strange crying behind doors.
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The Inheritance Games
Avery Grambs inherits billions from a stranger and must live a year in Hawthorne House.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Addie trades her soul for freedom in 1714 France and lives forgotten for 300 years, until a Brooklyn bookseller remembers her name.
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The Last Olympian
Percy Jackson turns sixteen as Kronos marches on Manhattan, forcing Camp Half-Blood into a final stand for Olympus beside Annabeth as the old prophecy demands…
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The Last Thing He Told Me
Hannah Hall gets a note saying Protect her, then her husband vanishes and she must team with his teen daughter to find why.
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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 Martian
Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his crew leaves him for dead, and survives with botany, repairs, and stubborn humor.
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The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect, cannot go to work, and watches his family shift from shock to cold relief.
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The Name of the Wind
Kvothe the Bloodless tells Chronicler how a clever Ruh boy survived loss, street life and the University to chase the Chandrian.
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The Night Circus
Two young magicians duel inside a black-and-white circus that only opens at night, and fall in love against the rules.
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The Odyssey
Homer's Odyssey in Fagles translation: Odysseus fights home past Cyclops, Circe, and Sirens while Telemachus seeks news and Penelope stalls suitors in Ithaca.…
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The Old Man and the Sea
Off Cuba, old Santiago rows out after 84 empty days, hooks a great marlin, and holds on for three days alone.
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