The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Fourteen-year-old Junior leaves his Spokane reservation school for an all-white farm town, drawing cartoons through grief, basketball, and divided loyalty.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve Strand cases from Irene Adler to the Copper Beeches, with Holmes at his sharpest and strangest.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex Haley.
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The Ballad of Never After
Evangeline hunts four missing Arch stones with Jacks to free a cursed Apollo and learns what his rescue will cost.
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The Bodyguard
Hannah Brooks, an executive protection agent grieving her mother, poses as movie star Jack Stapleton's girlfriend on his Texas family ranch.
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The Cheat Sheet
Best friends Bree and NFL star Nathan fake date for three weeks after her drunken confession goes viral.
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The City of Ember
Two twelve-year-olds trade jobs and chase a chewed-up note to save their fading underground city before its lights fail.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
A Cro-Magnon girl orphaned by disaster grows up with a Neanderthal clan, learning their medicine and customs while testing their limits.
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The full Poe shelf in one volume: mad narrators, rotting houses, Dupin, and the Raven.
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The Crown
Eadlyn Schreave must rule Illea and finish her Selection, torn between Kile, Henri, and translator Erik.
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The Dragon Reborn
Rand flees to Tear to claim Callandor while Perrin, Mat, and Egwene are drawn after him to the fallen Stone.
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The Drawing of the Three
Wounded on a beach, Roland pulls two strangers from New York through doors to survive and keep moving toward the Tower.
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The Fifth Season
A hiding orogene hunts her missing daughter across a breaking continent while three lives turn out to be one.
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The Fountainhead
An architect who will not copy faces a rival who pleases everyone, a lover who fears the world, and a trial over dynamite.
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The Goal
Sabrina plans for Harvard Law until an unexpected pregnancy ties her to steady hockey player Tucker.
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The God Delusion
Dawkins argues a personal God almost certainly does not exist, then traces religion and morals to evolution.
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The God of Small Things
Twins Rahel and Estha grow up in Kerala in 1969, where family rules and caste lines shape a loss that follows them into adulthood.
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The Great Hunt
Rand hunts the stolen Horn of Valere across the land while Egwene and Nynaeve face the Seanchan and the White Tower.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Eleanor joins a ghost study at Hill House, bonds fast with Theodora, and feels the house single her out by name.
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The Historian
A daughter traces her father's search for Dracula through letters and archives across Europe.
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
The 1611 King James Bible in a 1,472-page Thomas Nelson edition: from Genesis to Revelation, law, prophets, Gospels, and letters.
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The House Across the Lake
A widowed actress watching the couple across Lake Greene sees a disappearance that drags her own drowned husband back up.
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The House of the Spirits
Three generations of the Trueba family face love, ghosts and a coup, from Rosa's strange death to Alba's prison cell.
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
On his 100th birthday Allan Karlsson climbs out of his care home window and pockets a gangster fortune, while flashbacks trace his explosive century.
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