Jim, who now calls himself James, escapes slavery, kills the enslaver who holds his wife and daughter, and frees them.

U.S. libraries are rebounding: median visits per person rose from 0.4 in fiscal 2021 to 2.8 in fiscal 2023, and electronic circulation is up 84% since fiscal 2018, according to IMLS.

Charlie Gordon loses his intelligence and returns to his earlier state.

Lyman Ward, writing about his grandmother Susan Burling Ward, reveals that her affair with Oliver’s assistant Frank Sargent led to the drowning of her young daughter Agnes, after which Frank killed himself and Oliver withdrew from Susan for decades.

Years after surviving Eel Marsh House, Arthur Kipps sees the Woman in Black again at a park, just before a pony and trap carrying his wife Stella and their baby son crashes into a tree.

In 1985 the adult Losers’ Club returns to Derry and kills It, the shape-shifting creature that appears as Pennywise the clown, by tearing out its heart in the sewers beneath the town.

Mary Lennox and her cousin Colin restore the hidden garden, and Colin, who believed he was too sick to walk, grows strong.

Louis finishes telling his story to the interviewer, who asks to be turned into a vampire.

Turtle Wexler wins the Westing game by realizing that Sam Westing is still alive and had been playing three other identities: Barney Northrup, Sandy McSouthers and Julian Eastman.

The narrator ends in his underground hideout, deciding that he will come out and take part in society.