The Hunting Party
Nine Oxford friends gather at a remote Scottish lodge for New Year, where old rivalries and secrets end in murder.
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The Institute
A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.
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The Invention of Wings
Sarah Grimke and enslaved Handful grow up bound in Charleston, then push toward freedom and abolition.
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The Kitchen House
Irish orphan Lavinia is raised by enslaved cooks in the kitchen house, then torn between that family and the big house.
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The Last Battle
Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Locke Lamora leads con artists in Camorr until a rival boss and a deadly coup force a fight for survival.
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The Lincoln Highway
Emmett and Billy plan California in 1954, but two escapees steal their car and drag them east to New York.
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The Martian Chronicles
Linked stories trace failed Mars landings, crowded American towns on Mars, and nuclear war on Earth to one last family.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Retired Poirot probes a locked study murder in King's Abbot, told by the village doctor.
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The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri follows Gogol Ganguli from a hated namesake to adult loss, marriage, and family reckoning between Calcutta and Boston.
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The Pact
After Emily Gold dies from a gunshot, her boyfriend Chris Harte says it was a suicide pact and faces trial for murder.
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The Paris Wife
Hadley Richardson marries young Ernest Hemingway and follows him to 1920s Paris, fame, and heartbreak.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.
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The Plague
Oran is sealed after plague breaks out, and Dr Rieux treats the dying while neighbors face exile, fear, and small acts of care.
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The Poppy War
A war orphan wins a place at Sinegard academy, bonds with a fire god, and faces invasion.
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The Prophet
A prophet delayed twelve years answers his city on love, work, sorrow and freedom before his ship sails.
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The Purpose Driven Life
Rick Warren's 40-day guide to Christian purpose, from worship and fellowship to growth, service and mission.
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The Remains of the Day
Stevens, the perfect English butler, drives west in 1956 and looks back on Darlington Hall, Miss Kenton, and a life spent serving.
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Arthur Dent flees Vogons, dines at Milliways at the end of time, and strands on prehistoric Earth in Adams' sharp 1980 sequel.
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The Rose Code
Three Bletchley Park women reunite in 1947 to expose a wartime traitor in Quinn's codebreaking novel.
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The Runaway Jury
A tobacco trial in Biloxi is quietly rigged from inside the jury box and by a woman offering to sell the verdict.
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The Seven Year Slip
A grieving publicist inherits a time slipping Manhattan apartment and falls for a chef living seven years in the past.
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The Silkworm
A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.
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The Silmarillion
Tolkien's posthumous First Age history, edited by Christopher Tolkien: the Music of the Ainur, Feanor's Silmarils, Beren and Luthien, Gondolin, and the fall of…
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