The Silver Chair
Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
A widowed bookseller on Alice Island adopts abandoned toddler Maya, rebuilds Island Books, and finds love with sales rep Amelia before illness closes in.
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The Sweetest Oblivion
Sheltered Elena Abelli catches the eye of feared made man Nicolas Russo after her sister flees an arranged match.
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The Things They Carried
Alpha Company humps through Vietnam carrying rifles, letters, and guilt. O'Brien's linked 1990 collection asks what a true war story really tells.
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The Thirteenth Tale
A dying novelist tells her true story at last to a bookseller's daughter, and the mystery of the Angelfield twins comes into the open.
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The Turn of the Key
A nanny writes from prison about a smart Highland house, four girls, and the night one child died.
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The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion
Official photo guide to the Breaking Dawn Part 1 film, from the wedding to Isle Esme to the birth scene crew work.
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The Undomestic Goddess
A burned out London lawyer flees a career mistake and takes a housekeeper job she cannot do.
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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Vanessa Mazur quits assisting football star Aiden Graves, until he returns with a marriage proposal that changes both their plans.
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The War of the Worlds
A Surrey writer watches Martians land in cylinders, march on London in tripods, and fall to Earth's smallest life.
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The Wife Upstairs
A struggling dog walker falls for a wealthy widower in Alabama, but his missing wife may still be alive upstairs.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
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Things We Left Behind
Lucian Rollins returns to Knockemout to bury his father's past and collides with librarian Sloane Walton.
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This Is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.
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Truly Madly Guilty
A Sydney barbecue turns when two-year-old Ruby falls in a fountain. Three couples face guilt, marriage strain, and repair.
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Tuck Everlasting
Winnie Foster meets the immortal Tuck family in the woods and must decide whether to drink from their spring.
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Under the Dome
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes and her husband Ed restore an abandoned villa near Cortona, learning its stone walls, markets, and seasonal cooking one room and one meal at a…
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V for Vendetta
A masked rebel stalks fascist London while lost girl Evey finds her nerve, in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1988 DC graphic novel.
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Voyager
Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
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Where She Went
Three years after the crash, rock star Adam Wilde spends one night in New York facing Mia and their breakup.
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Wildfire
Hockey goalie Russ Callaghan and bold Aurora Roberts reunite as camp counselors after a one-night stand in this Maple Hills summer romance.
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