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DEBUT NOVEL
THE 7 1/2 DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE
Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Understood? Then let's begin...
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AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING
The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at 3 a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship--like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor--April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
ALIVE IN SHAPE AND COLOR
Even before Lawrence Block could rest on his laurels from In Sunlight or In Shadow, a question arose. What would he do for an encore?
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ALL WE EVER WANTED
Three very different people must choose between their family and their values, asking themselves who they really are, and searching for the courage to live a life of true meaning.
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ALTERNATE SIDE
A provocative novel that explores what it means to be a mother, a wife, and a woman at a moment of reckoning.
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AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined.
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ANY DREAM WILL DO
Powerful standalone novel about a woman forced to start her life anew, embarking on the most courageous journey of all—to a place where she learns what love and trust really mean.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN
Novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.
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AUNTIE POLDI AND THE SICILIAN LIONS
A charming, delightfully sexy, and bighearted novel starring Auntie Poldi, Sicily’s newest amateur sleuth.
AWAYLAND
An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion.
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BARBED WIRE HEART
A remarkable novel with a deep emotional core, seamlessly blending page-turning suspense with a multilayered and unflinching portrayal of a poor, rural community where family is everything.
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BEFORE WE WERE YOURS
Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story.
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BELIEVE ME
A struggling actor, a Brit in America without a green card, Claire needs work and money to survive. Then she gets both. But nothing like she expected.
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BONE MUSIC
There’s more than one way to stoke the flames of revenge... Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew—a pair of serial killers.
DEBUT NOVEL
BONFIRE
It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career. But when a new case takes her back home, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack.
DEBUT NOVEL
THE BOOK OF ESSIE
Gripping novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher.
DEBUT NOVEL
THE BOOK OF M
Set in a dangerous near future world, and tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love.
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THE BOOK OF POLLY
With a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother...
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BRING ME BACK
Driving along the highway Finn decides to stop at a service station to use the restroom. He hops out of the car, locks the doors behind him, and goes inside. When he returns Layla is gone...
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BY INVITATION ONLY
Examines what happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina.
THE CACTUS
Unexpectedly pregnant at age 45, Susan Green finds her perfectly organized life turning upside down. Her mother dies, leaving the family house to Susan’s ne’er-do-well brother, Edward...
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CALYPSO
When Sedaris buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, it is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself.
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THE CHILD FINDER
A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl.
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CIRCE
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother.
SECOND NOVEL
THE CLAIRVOYANTS
Karen Brown’s most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
THE CLOISTER
The timeless love story of Peter Abelard and Heloise, and its impact on a modern priest and a Holocaust survivor seeking sanctuary in Manhattan.
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COME SUNDOWN
A saga of love, family ties, and twisted passions on The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana, which is a family business, and an idyllic spot for vacationers.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
CRIMSON LAKE
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man—and public enemy number one.
THE DARK ROOM
A heart-pounding thriller from an “electrifying”* author that shows what happens when our deepest secrets are unburied.
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DARK SACRED NIGHT
Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard checks into the case herself...
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DARK SENTINEL
After the devastating loss of her entire family, Lorraine Peters heads to the woods searching for peace of mind and anything to quell the anger in her soul. She--a human woman ignites the desire of her Carpathian lifemate--and of an ancient vampire with a score to settle.
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THE DAUGHTER OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
A new thrilling tale of the great detective’s daughter and her companion Dr. John Watson, Jr. as they investigate a murder at the highest levels of British society.
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DEAD WOMAN WALKING
She’s seen the killer’s face – and he’s seen hers. Now he won’t rest until he’s eliminated the only witness to his crime.
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THE DEATH OF MRS. WESTAWAY
Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
OFFICIAL SEQUEL
DRACUL
The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a riveting novel of gothic suspense that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's -- and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them.
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DON'T LET GO
Suburban NJ Detective Napoleon “Nap” Dumas hasn’t been the same since senior year, when his twin brother Leo and Leo’s girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks...
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EDUCATED
An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
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ELEVATION
The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together—a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences.
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EMMA IN THE NIGHT
From the author of All Is Not Forgotten comes a thriller about two missing sisters, a twisted family, and what happens when one girl comes back...
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ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada was destined for fame. But her mathematician mother is determined to save Ada from the curse of her estranged husband's heritage.
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THE ESCAPE ARTIST
Death is just another way to disappear. Two hours outside of Washington, DC is the mortuary for the U.S. government's most top-secret and high profile cases.
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EVERY BREATH
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina...
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EVERY NOTE PLAYED
From neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice comes a powerful exploration of regret, forgiveness, freedom, and what it means to be alive.
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FALL OF GONDOLIN
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar, the Lord of Waters.
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THE FEMALE PERSUASION
An electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be. To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem.
TRANSLATED FICTION
FEVER
An epic story of survival and betrayal for fans of Station Eleven and The Road.
DEBUT NOVEL
THE FIFTH LETTER
A fun vacation game turns destructive, exposing dark secrets, deeply buried grudges, and a shocking betrayal in Nicola Moriarty’s intriguing debut.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
FIRE & BLOOD
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount...
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
FIREFLY
From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a 13 year old boy is making his way to Germany and safety. Codenamed 'Firefly', he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail.
DEBUT NOVEL
FLOATING WORLD
A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdorés, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans.
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FLORIDA
Brings one into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature.
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FORCE OF NATURE
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with?
DEBUT NOVEL
FRESHWATER
Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side."
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FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD
The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards...
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GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER
A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, about a once-in-a-lifetime friendship between two girls who are driven apart but never stop trying to find one another again.
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THE GLASS OCEAN
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.
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GLASS TOWN
A brilliantly rendered story about obsession and one man's attempt to unravel the mystery that destroyed his grandfather's life, set against a magical and intricately woven cityscape.
THE GLITCH
Introducing one of the most memorable and singular characters in recent fiction,The Glitch is a completely original, brainy, laugh-out-loud story of work, marriage, and motherhood for our times.
GNOMON
In the world of Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded, and the System has access to its citizens' thoughts and memories...
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
GODS OF HOWL MOUNTAIN
Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina.
DEBUT NOVEL
THE GOLDEN STATE
The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent―her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States...
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GONE SO LONG
Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her 40s, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn’t remember.
THE GREAT ALONE
Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.
GREEN
A novel of race and privilege in America that you haven't seen before: a coming-of-age story about a life-changing friendship, propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable voice.
THE HALF WIVES
Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning.
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HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION
The libretto of the award-winning musical, with backstage photos, a production history and interviews with the cast.
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HARDCORE TWENTY-FOUR
This Jersey girl hits hard—twenty-four seven. The blockbuster Stephanie Plum series continues with Hardcore Twenty-Four...
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HEADS YOU WIN
Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive.
PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
HEARTS OF THE MISSING
When a young woman linked to a list of missing Fire-Sky tribal members commits suicide, Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is assigned to the case. As the evidence leads her to a shocking discovery, she uncovers not only murder but one at the very core of what it means to be Fire-Sky People.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
HELLO, SUNSHINE
Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream—she’s a culinary star with millions of fans, a line of #1 bestselling cookbooks, and has it all...until her secrets come to light.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS
The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, a sprawling and deeply felt portrait of a Mexican-American family occasioned by the impending loss of its patriarch.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
HOW TO STOP TIME
A love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.
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THE HUSH
It’s been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon’s life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his exploits; the fascination remains.
I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade.
DEBUT NOVEL
IF WE WERE VILLAINS
Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring...
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THE IMMORTALISTS
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die.
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IN HER BONES
Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight.
THE KEEPER OF LOST THINGS
A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, and more.
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KINGDOM OF THE BLIND
When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache receives a letter inviting him to an abandoned farmhouse outside of Three Pines, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him as an executor of her will.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
KUDOS
In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
THE LARGESSE OF THE SEA MAIDEN
Follows Jesus’ Son. Written in the same luminous prose, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating old age, mortality, the ghosts of the past, and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.
SISTER DUO
THE LAST MRS. PARRISH
Thriller of a coolly manipulative woman who worms her way into the lives of a wealthy “golden couple” from Connecticut to achieve the privileged life she wants.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
THE LAST SUPPERS
Set in 1950s Louisiana, the story of an unforgettable woman whose quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her own past.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
LEGION: THE MANY LIVES OF STEPHEN LEEDS
A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people—Stephen calls them aspects—to hold and manifest the information.
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LETHAL WHITE
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember much, there is sincererity in his story.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
LEVERAGE IN DEATH
Lieutenant Eve Dallas puzzles over a bizarre suicide bombing in a Wall St. office building in the latest in the #1 New York Times bestselling series...
SECOND NOVEL
LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK
Alternating between past and present, Lillian Boxfish revisits her very interesting and long life via a five mile nostalgic trek thru The Big Apple as one year ends and another begins.
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LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE
Riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
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LONG ROAD TO MERCY
Atlee Pine, an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. And she’s the best at it. One of the Bureau’s top profilers.
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LOOK ALIVE TWENTY-FIVE
There's nothing like a good deli and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World famous for its pastrami, cole slaw and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
MACBETH
Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He’s convinced he won’t get what is rightfully his. Unless he kills for it.
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MAGPIE MURDERS
A fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
MANHATTAN BEACH
In the Great Depression, Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family.
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THE MANSION
After two years of living on cheap beer and little else in a bitterly cold tiny cabin outside an abandoned, crumbling mansion, young programmers Shawn Eagle and Billy Stafford have created something that could make them rich: a revolutionary computer they name Eagle Logic.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
MARILLA OF GREEN GABLES
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to greatness.
DEBUT NOVEL
MERMAID AND MRS. HANCOCK
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah’s ship for what appears to be a mermaid.
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THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS
Across a subcontinent on a journey of many years, we go deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety - in search of meaning, and of love.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
MR. FLOOD’S LAST RESORT
The spellbinding tale of a lonely caregiver and a cranky hoarder with a house full of secrets.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
MRS. FLETCHER
From the author of The Leftovers and Little Children comes a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of America’s culture wars.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
MRS. OSMOND
What was freedom, she thought, other than the right to exercise one's choices? Isabel Osmond, a spirited, intelligent young heiress, flees to London after being betrayed by her husband, to be with her beloved cousin Ralph on his deathbed.
DEBUT NOVEL
MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER
Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola is: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic.
NEMO RISING
An exciting sequel to the Captain Nemo adventures enjoyed by millions in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
THE NIGHT OCEAN
A riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.
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NINE PERFECT STRANGERS
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might be real work.
PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
NORTH OF DAWN
For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack.
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NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT
One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then drama as she thought she was dying? Two major steps back.
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OF BLOOD AND BONE
They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature.
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ON TURPENTINE LANE
When Faith Frankel, a professional thank-you-note writer, moves from Brooklyn back to her hometown of Everton, Mass., she falls in love with and buys a little house on Turpentine Lane with a past, and gets more than she bargained for.
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ONCE UPON A RIVER
A dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames. The regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open on an injured stranger. In his arms is the drowned corpse of a little child.
DEBUT NOVEL
ONE OF THE BOYS
A riveting and emotionally harrowing debut about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father.
ONE OF US WILL BE DEAD BY MORNING
Fifteen people are trapped on Skek, a barren island in the middle of the North Sea somewhere between the coasts of the UK and Denmark.
DEBUT NOVEL
ONLY CHILD
Squeezed into a coat closet with his classmates and teacher, first grader Zach Taylor can hear gunshots ringing through the halls of his school. A gunman has entered the building, taking nineteen lives...
PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
THE ONLY STORY
First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.
DEBUT NOVEL
THE ORACLE YEAR
From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of a twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future.
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ORIGIN
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives in Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.”
OUR KIND OF CRUELTY
Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely life, before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy.
MASTER OF HORROR
THE OUTSIDER
An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
PAST TENSE
Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. He thinks, what's one extra day?
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PERFECT COUPLE
It's wedding season on Nantucket. The beautiful island is overrun with summer people--an annual source of aggravation for year-round residents. And that's not the only tension brewing offshore.
A PLACE FOR US
Unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition.
DEBUT NOVEL
THE PHILOSOPHER’S FLIGHT
Set in a World-War-I-era America, Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy—an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly.
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THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING
As the novel opens, a threat looms. Enemies are planning an attack of unprecedented scale on America. Uncertainty and fear grip Washington. The President himself becomes a suspect, and then goes missing...
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PROMISE NOT TO TELL
Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life...
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THE PUNISHMENT SHE DESERVES
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the past as they try to solve a crime that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of a quiet, historic medieval town in England.
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THE RECKONING
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son--a decorated WWII hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot...
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RED CLOCKS
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo.
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THE REVOLUTION OF MARINA M.
St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history.
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THE RULES OF MAGIC
For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in NYC at the cusp of the 60s, the whole world is about to change.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
SIEGE OF STONE
The Sorceress Nicci, the Wizard Nathan Rahl, and the young swordsman Bannon remain in the legendary city of Ildakar after a great internal revolt has freed the slaves and brought down the powerful wizards council. But as he fled the city, capricious Wizard Commander Maxim dissolved the spell...
PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman—Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: Briseis.
DEBUT NOVEL
THE SISTERS OF THE WINTER WOOD
Raised in a small village surrounded by vast forests, Liba and Laya have lived a peaceful sheltered life - even if they've heard of troubling times for Jews elsewhere. When their parents travel to visit their dying grandfather, the sisters are left behind in their home in the woods.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE SLEEPWALKER
From the author of "The Guest Room"" comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire—the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, a young Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut--If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you?
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE SORCERER'S APPENDIX
Gretel has never had any time for sorcerers, considering them nothing more than show-offs with questionable fashion sense. It is with some reluctance, then, that she look into the matter of a murdered magician...
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
SOURDOUGH
Lois Clary, a talented young programmer from Michigan follows a job to California, only to be drawn into the weird world of food that waits there. It’s about work and eating, robots and microbes, independence and ambition.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
SPARK OF LIGHT
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.
DEBUT NOVEL
SPOILS
The Kite Runner meets The Things They Carried in this explosive debut which maps the blurred lines between good and bad, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE STARS ARE FIRE
An exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE STOLEN MARRIAGE
In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
SURPRISE ME
Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However...
SECOND NOVEL
SWIMMING LESSONS
Swimming Lessons tells the story of Ingrid Coleman who writes letters to her husband, Gil about the truth of their marriage, but decides not to send them. Instead she hides them within the books her husband collects.
DEBUT NOVEL
SYCAMORE
Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine.
DEBUT NOVEL
TANGERINE
The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends—once inseparable roommates—haven’t spoken in over a year.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.
DEBUT NOVEL
THERE THERE
A relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
TIME'S CONVERT
On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
TIMELESS
One of fantasy's most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, in an all-new trilogy full of swordplay, danger, and imaginative thrills. Centuries ago, in the city of Menzoberranzan, a young weapon master earned a reputation far above his station or that of his poor house.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
TRAJECTORY
Following Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
TRANSCRIPTION
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE TWELVE-MILE STRAIGHT
An audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.
DEBUT FICTION COLLECTION
UNCOMMON TYPE
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
US AGAINST YOU
After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local hockey team will soon be disbanded...
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WARLIGHT
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself – at once both shadowed and luminous – Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WASHINGTON BLACK
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WATCHING YOU
Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It’s not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. It is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. Everyone is watching you.
DEBUT NOVEL
WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE SOLOMONS
A hilarious multigenerational family saga set in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles that explores the secrets and gossip-filled lives of a kibbutz community near Jerusalem.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LULULEMONS
A novel starring one of Weisberger's favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada—Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who’s just landed the client of a lifetime.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent...
WHITE TEARS
A ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE WITCH ELM
Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life: he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, he might never be the same man again.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WITHOUT MERIT
Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal...
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times...and spying on her neighbors.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
WONDER VALLEY
When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE WORD IS MURDER
A wealthy woman planned her own funeral--but did she arrange her murder--strangled six hours after? A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can’t control.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Y IS FOR YESTERDAY
Darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school...
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
YOU DON'T OWN ME
Part of the Under Suspicion series. When TV producer Laurie Moran investigates an unsolved murder, she becomes entangled in a web of long-buried secrets and begins to wonder if her own life is in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots revenge.
ZERO SUM GAME
Cas Russell is the geek's Jack Reacher... She is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price.
