Heaven Is for Real
A Nebraska pastor's four-year-old survives a burst appendix, then describes angels, Jesus, and relatives he never met.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
A Chinese American boy befriends a Japanese American girl in wartime Seattle, then loses her to the internment camps.
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I Know This Much Is True
A housepainter fights to free his schizophrenic twin from a locked ward while a grandfather's memoir and a lost marriage resurface. Long, heavy, hard to forget.
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If We Were Villains
Seven Shakespeare students at a cutthroat conservatory close ranks after a death by the lake, and one serves ten years for it.
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
A mouse gets a cookie and turns one small favor into a whole busy day.
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If You Tell
Three sisters survive fear in a Raymond farmhouse and help police face long hidden murders.
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Inheritance
Eragon and Saphira march on Uru'baen to end Galbatorix, with hidden hearts and hard goodbyes.
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Just Kids
Patti Smith recalls broke young years with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1960s New York, from Brooklyn rooms to the Chelsea Hotel, art, music, and a kept promise.
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Killing Floor
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is arrested for murder in Margrave, Georgia, then learns the victim was his brother.
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Kingdom of the Wicked
Twin witch Emilia summons demon prince Wrath to hunt her sister's killer in 19th century Sicily.
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Last Sacrifice
Rose faces execution after the queen dies while Lissa fights for the throne in the finale.
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Legendary
Tella enters a new Caraval in Valenda to pay a debt with Legend's name, while curses and waking Fates raise the cost.
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Leviathan Wakes
A destroyed ice hauler, a missing heiress, and an alien growth pull a crew and a tired detective toward war across the solar system.
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Lilac Girls
Three women meet across World War II: a New York volunteer, a Polish courier turned prisoner, and a German camp doctor.
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Little House in the Big Woods
The Ingalls family spends a full year in a Wisconsin log cabin, filling the attic, marking Christmas, and sugaring maples in spring.
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Little House on the Prairie
The Ingalls family leaves Wisconsin for Kansas, builds a log house, and faces wolves, fire, and fever.
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Maybe in Another Life
One midnight ride splits Hannah Martin's life in two, and Reid follows both versions to see what love and choice decide.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, reminds himself in Greek on campaign: mind your thoughts, do your work, accept nature, face death calmly.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berendt spends five years in Savannah and gets drawn into the Jim Williams murder trials, among eccentrics and root doctors.
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Midnight Sun
Twilight retold by Edward Cullen: a silent mind, singer blood in Forks, and restraint tested to the edge.
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Mile High
A Chicago hockey star and a new team flight attendant clash on every road trip until banter turns into care.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway gives a London party across one June day while veteran Septimus Smith faces shell shock in the same city.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Korede covers up her sister Ayoola's murders in Lagos until Ayoola starts dating Tade, the doctor Korede secretly loves.
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Norse Mythology
Gaiman retells the Norse myths in order, from the creation of the world to Ragnarok, with Odin, Thor and Loki at the center.
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