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ALPHABETICAL

The Prodigal Daughter (Kane & Abel, #2)
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Professional
W.C. Heinz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Professor
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Professor And The Madman
Simon Winchester

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

The Professor (McMurtrie and Drake, #1)
Robert Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Professor of Desire
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Professor's House
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Program
Suzanne Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Project
Courtney Summers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Promise
Ann Weisgarber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Promise of American Life
Herbert Croly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1909

The Promise of a Pencil
Adam Braun

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Promise of Happiness
Justin Cartwright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Promise of Stardust
Priscille Sibley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Property
Rutu Modan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Prophetic Imagination
Walter Brueggemann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Prophet of Yonwood (Book of Ember, #3)
Jeanne DuPrau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr., Abraham Joshua Heschel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Proposal
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Short Story | Published in 2014

The Proposition
Katie Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
Snorri Sturluson

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Prospector
J.M.G. Le Clézio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Prospectors
Ariel Djanikian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

The Providence of Fire
Brian Staveley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Prussian Officer
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1914

The Psychology of Love
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud, A.A. Brill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Public and Its Problems
John Dewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

The Pugilist at Rest: Stories
Thom Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

The Pull of the Moon
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Puppet Masters
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Puppet Show
Patrick Redmond

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1)
M.W. Craven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Puppets of Spelhorst
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
Edmund S. Morgan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1958

The Purple Land
William Henry Hudson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Rick Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Alicia Garza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
Elinor Lipman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
A.W. Tozer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

The Pursuit of Happiness
Douglas Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Pursuit of Happyness
Chris Gardner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
Nancy Mitford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Pursuit (Sherring Cross, #3)
Johanna Lindsey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Pushcart War
Jean Merrill

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Push: Mother. Daughter. Angel. Monster?
Ashley Audrain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Puttermesser Papers
Cynthia Ozick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Puzzle Ring
Kate Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
Eric Berlin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007