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The Grandest Game
08 $Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year’s game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win. Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power.
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The Housemaid
08 $The Housemaid (2022) is a mystery novel written by Freida McFadden. The story follows Millie Calloway, a young woman with a criminal past, who is employed as a housekeeper by a rich woman, Nina Winchester, with a seeming mental health condition.
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The Housemaid Is Watching
08 $This domestic thriller centers around Millie, the main character, who secures a job as a maid for the affluent Winchester family. Hired on the spot by Nina, the wife, Millie moves into their mansion, living in the attic bedroom. For Millie, who is homeless, this job signifies a fresh start.
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The Housemaid Secrets
08 $Two-paragraph version: Millie is a housekeeper who has helped many women get out of abusive relationships. Millie gets hired by Wendy for that purpose, to get away from her husband Douglas. When things get ugly, Millie shoots Douglas, and he dies.
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The Idiot
010 $The world of The Idiot is structured by strict social hierarchies that bestow authority based on factors such as rank, wealth, and gender, rather than on one’s actual character as an individual. This creates an unjust and unsustainable social system, which the novel takes a critical stance against.
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The Inmate
08 $aApsychological thriller about a single mother who returns to her hometown in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths. Memories of her past begin to haunt her when she takes a job at the federal prison where the father of her child, who once tried to kill her, is serving a life sentence for a triple homicide.
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The Kiss Of Death
08 $At Pantheon University, violinist Dalia Mercier crosses paths with Levi Delombre, a genius hacker haunted by their shared past. What begins as Levi’s plan for revenge turns into a complicated bond, forcing them both to face old wounds and unexpected feelings.
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The Kite Runner
08 $1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
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The Last Olympian
08 $Percy and his friends must defend Mount Olympus from the vengeful Titan lord, Kronos. As the ultimate battle unfolds, the fate of the entire world rests in their hands.
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The Lightning Thief
08 $A story about a troubled young boy who finds out his father is a Greek god, making him a demigod. He and his friends are given the task of finding and returning Zeus’s lightning bolt as monsters from the Underworld attempt to stop them.
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The Locked Door
08 $While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence.
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The Lovely Bones
08 $It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from a personal heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death.