A touching and deeply funny debut about starting over sober only to discover lifeâs biggest messes are still waiting right where you left them.
The very last person anyone should worry about is Emma. Yes, hi, sheâs an alcoholic. But sheâs officially been sober for one entire year. Thatâs twelve months of better health. Fifty-two whole weeks of focusing on nothing but her nine-to-five office job, group meetings, and avoiding the kind of bad decisions that previously left her awash in shame and regret. Itâs also been 365 days of not dating. And with her new dating profile, Emma, 26, of New York is ready to put herself back out there.
Exceptâwas dating always this complicated? And did Emmaâs mother really have to choose now to move in with her new boyfriend? Being assigned to plan her officeâs holiday party feels like icing on the suddenly very overwhelming cake until her estranged father reappears with devastating news. Icing, meet cherry on top. But then thereâs Ben, the charming IT guy who, despite Emmaâs awkwardness and shortcomings, seems to maybe actually get her? Sobriety is turning out to be far from the flawless future Emma had once envisioned for herself, but as she allows herself to open up to Ben and confront difficult past relationships, sheâs beginning to realize that taking things one day at a time might just be the perfectly imperfect path sheâs meant to be on.
Bittersweet and darkly hilarious, Ava Robinsonâs debut novel about navigating sobriety and complicated family dynamics is witty, heartbreaking, and profoundly relatable.
Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a person - costs them too much time with too many of the people who need them most.
And it's all Angel's fault. She sold Edie out in what should have been the greatest moment of their lives. Instead, Edie was shipped off to the icy prison planet spinning far below the soaring skybridges and neon catacombs of Kepler space station - of home - to spend the best part of a decade alone.
But then a chance for early parole appears out of nowhere and Edie steps into the pallid sunlight to find none other than Angel waiting - and she has an offer.
One last job. One last deal. One last target. The trillionaire tech god they failed to bring down last time. There's just one thing Edie needs to do - trust Angel again - which also happens to be the last thing Edie wants to do. What could possibly go all hammajang about this plan?
Ocean's 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai'i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build a better one.
Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with another twisty domestic thriller about a wife wondering who tried to kill her husband twice before finally succeeding⊠because that was supposed to be her job.
Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a renowned pediatric surgeon, an infamous tragedy survivor, and a national hero. Heâs also very deadâthanks to a fall down the stairs. His neighbors angrily point a finger at the newest Ms. Dougherty, Addison. The sudden marriage to the mysterious young woman only lasted ninety-seven days, and heâd had two suspicious âaccidentsâ during that time. Now Addison is a very rich widow.
As law enforcement starts to circle in on Addison and people in town become increasingly hostile, sides are chosen with Kathryn, Richmondâs high school sweetheart, wife number one, and the mother of his children, leading the fray. Despite rising tensions, Addison is even more driven to forge ahead on the path she charted years agoâŠ
Determined at all costs to unravel Richmondâs legacy, she soon becomes a targetâwith a shocking note left on her bedroom: You will pay. But it will take a lot more than faceless threats to stop Addison. Her plan to marry Richmond then ruin him may have been derailed by his unexpected death, but sheâs not done with him yet.
Maddie Sanderson would be proud to honor her older brotherâs dying wish, that she scatters his ashes over eight destinations that the adventurous 29-year-old never got to visit before he died from cancer. But in his will, Josh assigned her an impossible partner to help complete the missionâDominic Perry.
Seriously, if Maddie werenât already at his funeral, she would have killed him for this.
Sure, Dom was Joshâs life-long best friend. Heâs also the infuriating man who broke Maddieâs heart back when she was naĂŻve enough to give it to him. But since Dom insists on following the rules and Josh didnât leave much room for Maddie to argue the matter, they embark together on a farewell trip that spans thousands of miles, exploring new places and revisiting their complicated history along the way.
After a snowstorm leads to a shared bed, Maddie starts to wonder if her brother might be matchmaking from the grave. But when grief also reopens old wounds between them, Maddie will need more than Joshâs ghostly guidance to trust Dom again.
When We Were Very Young is a delightful collection of children's poetry by the beloved author A.A. Milne. This enchanting book is part of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, and it invites readers into a world of whimsy and imagination.
Each poem is crafted with playful rhymes and charming characters, making it a perfect read for both the young and the young at heart. Whether you're exploring the curious thoughts of a child or embarking on an imaginative journey, this collection is sure to bring a smile to your face.
Discover the timeless tales that have captured the hearts of generations and enjoy the joyful spirit of childhood through Milne's magical words.
A once-famous ballerina faces a final choiceâto return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away foreverâin this incandescent novel of redemption and love.
On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident stalled her career. Once the most celebrated dancer of her generation, she now turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of her past.
She is unmoored in her old city as the ghosts of her former life begin to resurface: her loving but difficult mother, her absentee father, and the two gifted dancers who led to her downfall.
One of those dancers, Alexander, is the love of her life, who transformed both Natalia and her art. The other is Dmitri, a dark and treacherous genius. When the latter offers her a chance to return to the stage in her signature role, Natalia must decide whether she can again face the people responsible for both her soaring highs and darkest hours.
Painting a vivid portrait of the Russian ballet world, where cutthroat ambition, ever-shifting politics, and sublime artistry collide, City of Night Birds unveils the making of a dancer with both profound intimacy and breathtaking scope. Mysterious and alluring, passionate and virtuosic, Juhea Kimâs second novel is an affecting meditation on love, forgiveness, and the making of an artist in a turbulent world.
Alayna Withers has only had one kind of relationship: the kind that makes her obsessive and stalker-crazy. Now that Hudson Pierce has let her into his heart, sheâs determined to break down the remaining walls between them so they can build a foundation thatâs based on more than just amazing sex.
Except Hudsonâs not the only one with secrets. With their pasts pulling them into a web of unfounded mistrust, Alayna turns to the one person who knows Hudson the bestâCelia, the woman he almost married. Hoping for insight from someone who understands all sides of the story, Alayna forms a bond with Celia that goes too farârevealing things about Hudson that could end their love for good.
This is the first relationship where Alayna hasnât spiraled out of control. And she might lose Hudson anywayâŠ
Dirty Diana is a deliciously provocative novel about a woman caught between the comfortable stability of her marriage and her memories of a more sensual past. This is the first book in a three-part series based on the #1 fiction podcast.
Diana Wood has a job she likes and a husband, Oliver, she loves. Together, they have a daughter they adore. Theyâre in married love, which isnât exactly the same as love love, but itâs fine. Or is it? Is fine good enough?
Diana and Oliver havenât had sex in months and their intimacy seems more like a memory than a reality. The cozy trappings of Dianaâs life in Dallas, Texas have become ever-more confining. She is restless, growing more distant from Oliver by the day.
A trip to see an old friend in Santa Fe prompts Diana to remember the woman she used to beâan aspiring artist; someone devoted to creativity, spontaneity, sensuality. In her pastâespecially with Jasper, the dashing photographer with whom she once had an unforgettable love affairâDiana let herself fantasize, she let her body lead the way. She was whollyâŠalive.
Returning to Dallas, Diana decides to rediscover the deeply feeling woman she once was. She begins interviewing other women, painting their portraits as they speak. She encourages them to give voice to their secret desires as she captures their deepest, innermost fantasies. But is it possible for Diana to reclaim her more sensual self and maintain the marriage she committed to? What if connecting to her own desires means dissolving the safe life sheâs so carefully cultivated?
A hilarious love story about a disillusioned divorcée who agrees to let her children play matchmaker.
Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she has two kids, a cat, and uncontested control of the TV remote? Besides, sheâd rather be single than subject herself to the hell of online dating. But her office rival is vying for her column, and no column means no stable source of income.
In a desperate attempt to keep her job, Anna finds herself pitching a unique angle: seven dates, all found offline, chosen by her children.
From awkward encounters to unexpected connections, Anna gamely begins to put herself out there, asking out waiters, the mailman, and even her celebrity crush. But when a romantic connection appears where she least expected it, will she be brave enough to take another chance on love?
The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a mesmerizing tale where reality and fantasy intertwine. When a young manâs girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he embarks on a quest to find the imaginary city where her true self resides.
His journey leads him to a mysterious library, filled with secrets of its own. Upon reaching the walled city, a shadowless realm of horned beasts and willow trees, he discovers his beloved working in a dream library. Yet, she has no memory of their shared past, and as the boundaries between realities blur, he faces a poignant decision on what he is willing to lose.
This novel is a love story, a quest, and an ode to books and the libraries that house themâa parable for the strange times we live in.
If you knew then what you know now, would you make the same choices? Imagine having a second chance with the one you never forgot.
From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragic accident, and the man who gives up everything to help her.
When Evie Hudson wakes in an unfamiliar hospital room, she thinks sheâs fresh out of a teenage party with her best friend, Bree. Except, Bree isnât around anymore and high school was years ago. Evie had just survived the crash that killed her husband, Oliverâwhom she can't remember either. After suffering a traumatic loss of memory, sheâs left to connect the dots. But how?
Drew, a promising photographer whose chance encounter with Evie unravels the elusive details of her marriage and her husbandâs death. As Drew watches Evie stitch the story of her life together, secrets emerge that might shatter both of their worlds.
This tangled second-chance romance leads Evie to question every decision she ever made. This time around, sheâs seeing all the things she missedâand the life she gets to choose...again.
Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factoryâa real-life Handmaid's Taleâduring World War II.
In a sleepy German village, Allina Straussâs life seems idyllic: she works at her uncleâs bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends weekends with her friends and fiancĂ©. But it's 1939, Adolf Hitler is Chancellor, and Allinaâs family hides a terrifying secretâher birth mother was Jewish, making her a Mischling.
One fateful night after losing everyone she loves, Allina is forced into service as a nurse at a state-run baby factory called Hochland Home. There, she becomes both witness and participant to the horrors of Heinrich Himmlerâs ruthless eugenics program.
The Sunflower House is a meticulously-researched debut historical novel that uncovers the notorious Lebensborn Program of Nazi Germany. Women of âpureâ blood stayed in Lebensborn homes for the sole purpose of perpetuating the Aryan population, giving birth to thousands of babies who were adopted out to âgoodâ Nazi families. Allina must keep her Jewish identity a secret in order to survive, but when she discovers the neglect occurring within the home, sheâs determined not only to save herself, but also the children in her care.
A tale of one womanâs determination to resist and survive, The Sunflower House is also a love story. When Allina meets Karl, a high-ranking SS officer with secrets of his own, the two must decide how much they are willing to share with each otherâand how much they can stand to risk as they join forces to save as many children as they can. The threads of this poignant and heartrending novel weave a tale of loss and love, friendship and betrayal, and the secrets we bury in order to save ourselves.
She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.
While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. Thereâs Eugene Fleck, a seemingly sweet online influencer who might also be YouTube star Robin Hoodie, masked hero to the homeless, who hijacks delivery trucks and distributes their contents to the needy. Sheâs also on the trail of Bruno Jug, a wealthy and connected man in the wholesale produce business who is rumored to traffic young girls alongside lettuce and tomatoes. Most terrifying of all is Zoranâa laundromat manager by day and self-proclaimed vampire by night with a taste for the blood of pretty girls. When he shows up on Stephanieâs doorstep, itâs not for the meatloaf dinner.
With timely assists from her stalwart supporters Lula, Connie, and Grandma Mazur, Stephanie uses every trick in the book to reel in these men. But only she can decide what to do about the two men she actually loves. She canât hold Ranger and Morelli at bay for long, and sheâs keeping a secret from them that is the biggest bombshell of all. Now or never, sheâs got to make the decision of a lifetime.
Told in alternating timelines, The Lake of Lost Girls is a haunting novel that will thrill fans of All Good People Here and We Are All the Same in the Dark.
Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You.
It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina. But freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears.
Twenty-four years later, Jessica's sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast, Ten Seconds to Vanish, that focuses on the cold cases, to guide her own investigation. Soon, interest reaches fever pitch when the bodies of the long-missing women begin turning up at a local lake, which leads Lindsey down a disturbing road of discovery.
In the present, one sister seeks to untangle a complicated web of lies.
In the past, the other descends ever deeper into a darkness that will lead to her ultimate fate.
This propulsive and chilling suspense is a sharp examination of sisterhood and the culture of true crime.
Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago.
Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.
But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.
And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge....
A masterful novel that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith and cements Hawkinsâs place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.
Jessica Goodman meets The Agathas in this taut, twisty YA thriller set in the glittering world of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where secretsâand bodiesânever stay buried.
For the New Orleans elite, the Les Masques Ball is sure to be the social event of the seasonâif they can avoid another dead Queen. When debutante Margot Landry was found dead the morning after her reign at last yearâs ball, it was a tragedy, but not a shocking one. Margot was a wild child with a self-destructive streak, nothing like this yearâs Queen, Lily LeBlanc. With a perfectly poised debutante on the throne, everything is going according to planâŠuntil the ball is hijacked by a mysterious figure in a Jester costume.
That night, Lily sends a text to three of the Maids on her royal courtâher best friend, Vivian; her boyfriend's sister, Piper; and April, her former frenemyâasking them all to meet the next morning. But Lily never shows up.
On the surface, these three debutantes donât have anything in common except their exclusive private school and their ties to Les Masques. But soon, they realize why Lily brought them together: something dark is lurking beneath the glamorous surface of the debutante world, and it might be the reason she disappeared. And the further the girls dig, the more they begin to suspect that Margot's death may not have been an accidentâand that Lily may be next.
When the Jester starts threatening to expose their own secrets, this unlikely trio must team up to uncover the monsters behind the Mardi Gras masksâbefore theyâre left with another dead debutante.
Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning. That's only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin The Grey Wolf.
A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list - and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching. Armand Gamache, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his son-in-law and second in command, and Inspector Isabelle Lacoste can only trust each other, as old friends begin to act like enemies, and long-time enemies appear to be friends. Determined to track down the threat before it becomes a reality, their pursuit takes them across Québec and across borders. If they fail, the devastating consequences would reach into the largest of cities and the smallest of villages.
LAPD Detective RenĂ©e Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harryâs daughter.
RenĂ©e Ballard and the LAPDâs Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-three, so the genetic link must be familial. It is his father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.
Meanwhile, Ballardâs badge, gun, and ID are stolenâa theft she canât report without giving her enemies in the department the ammunition they need to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her solo mission leads her into greater danger than she anticipates. She has no choice but to go outside the department for help, and that leads her to the door of Harry Bosch.
Finally, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit. Boschâs daughter Maddie wants to supplement her work as a patrol officer on the night beat by investigating cases with Ballard. But RenĂ©e soon learns that Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the cityâs library of lost souls.
Bowen Penhallow has always been a loner, studying dark and ancient magic on a mountaintop in Wales. He prefers it that way, but when his friend Declanâwho happens to be a ghostâasks him to attend a Yuletide wedding at a grand estate deep in the Welsh countryside, Bowen reluctantly agrees.
Tamsyn Bligh is not a witch, but she makes her living off of them. As a procurer and seller of magical items, Tamsynâs business is not always above board, but sheâs been trying to fix that (mostly). Bowen is an occasional customerâas well as the star of several of Tamsynâs dirtiest dreamsâbut sheâs been around enough witches to know that, as a human, getting involved with one is not the smartest idea. Sheâs finagled an invite to the Witchy Wedding of the Century in the hopes of finally making a score big enough to retire. Just one priceless magical artifact from Tywyll House would set her up for life.
But Tamsyn isnât the only one sneaking about in Tywyll House, and the mix of a very strong spell combined with a wedding mishap transports Bowen and Tamsyn into Tywyll Houseâs past, to the Yuletide Celebration of 1957. As Bowen and Tamsyn work together to get back to the present, they must also face off with the origins of Tywyll Houseâs haunting, the suspicions of their fellow witchesâŠoh, and the fact that somewhere between the mistletoe and the bonfire, they might be falling in love.
A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin, this middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their motherâs death.
Remember, you are bound by the Official Secrets ActâŠ
Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now theyâre living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World War IIâBritainâs eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley Park. As Jakob joins Bletchleyâs top minds to crack the Nazi's Enigma cipher, fourteen-year-old Lizzie embarks on a mission to solve the mysterious disappearance of their mother.
The Battle of Britain rages and Hitlerâs invasion creeps closer. And at the same time, baffling messages and codes arrive on their doorstep while a menacing inspector lurks outside the gates of the Bletchley mansion. Are the messages truly for them, or are they a trap? Could the riddles of Enigma and their mother's disappearance be somehow connected? Jakob and Lizzie must find a way to work together as they race to decipher clues which unravel a shocking puzzle that presents the ultimate challenge: How long must a secret be kept?
It's never too late for new beginnings.
On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springsâan active senior community in southern Floridaâshe unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her fatherâs old pharmacyâand the man who broke her heart sixty years earlier.
As a teenager growing up in 1920âs Brooklyn, Augustaâs role model was her father, Solomon Stern, the trusted owner of the local pharmacy and the neighborhood expert on every ailment. But when Augustaâs mother dies and Great Aunt Esther moves in, Augusta canât help but be drawn to Estherâs curious methods. As a healer herself, Esther offers Solomonâs customers her own adviceâunconventional remedies ranging from homemade chicken soup to a mysterious array of powders and potions.
As Augusta prepares for pharmacy college, she is torn between loyalty to her father and fascination with her great aunt, all while navigating a budding but complicated relationship with Irving. Desperate for clarity, she impulsively uses Estherâs most potent elixir with disastrous consequences. Disillusioned and alone, Augusta vows to reject Estherâs enchantments forever.
Sixty years later, confronted with Irving, Augusta is still haunted by the mistakes of her past. What happened all those years ago and how did her plan go so spectacularly wrong? Did Irving ever truly love her or was he simply playing a part? And can Augusta reclaim the magic of her youth before itâs too late?
A Song to Drown Rivers is an epic historical fantasy inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China. It delves into themes of womanhood, war, sacrifice, and love against all odds.
Her beauty hides a deadly purpose.
Xishiâs beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue, who believe the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi captures the attention of the renowned young military advisor, Fanli, he offers her a unique opportunity: to wield her beauty as a weapon. Her mission is to infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy, seduce their immoral king, and weaken them from within, thereby avenging her sisterâs murder and improving the lives of her people.
Trained by Fanli in everything from classical instruments to concealing emotions, Xishi hones her beauty into the perfect blade. The attraction between them is undeniable, burning away any falsehoods.
Within the enemy palace, Xishi is under the watchful eyes of the kingâs advisors, while the king himself shows her great affection. Despite his gentleness, a lurking brutality means she can never let her guard down. As Xishi rises in the Wu court, the risk of being unmasked as a traitor grows, threatening to bring both kingdoms down.
Shred Sisters is a wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and the hard-won path between two sisters.
It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight, but when her stunning confidence morphs into something erratic and unpredictable, she becomes a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Put simply, she has no brakes.
Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, dreams of winning a Nobel Prize and unlocking the mysteries of the mind. Amy believes in facts, proof, and the empirical world. Except none of that can explain whatâs happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the bipolar disorder that will shatter Amyâs carefully constructed world.
As Amy comes of age and seeks to find her placeâfirst in academics, then New York publishing, and through a series of troubled relationshipsâevery step brings collisions with Ollie, who slips in and out of the Shred family without warning. For all that upends and unsettles these sisters, an inextricable bond always draws them back.
Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring the fierce complexities of sisterhood, mental health, loss, and love. If anything is true, itâs what Amy learns on her road to self-acceptance: No one will love you or hurt you more than a sister.
How far would you go to belong?
Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunionâitâs been a decade since she graduated, and she is looking forward to seeing old faces and reminiscing about her time there. This visit is special because Maya will also be attending the graduation of her little sister, Naomi.
But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Mayaâs worst nightmare when she receives the news that Naomi is dead. The police are calling it an accident, but Maya suspects that there is more to the story than they are letting on.
As Maya pieces together what happened in the months leading up to her sisterâs death, she begins to realize how much Naomi hid from her. Despite Mayaâs warnings, Naomi had joined Sterling Club, the most exclusive social club on campusâthe same one Maya belonged to. And if she had to guess, Naomi was likely tapped for the secret society within it.
The more Maya uncovers, the more terrified she becomes that Naomiâs decision to follow in her footsteps might have been what got her killed. Because Mayaâs time at Princeton wasnât as wonderful as sheâd always made it seemâafter all, her sister wasnât the first young woman to turn up dead. Now every clue is leading Maya back to the past . . . and to the secret sheâs kept all these years.
She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. Sheâs seen it allâmen who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.
Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.
Then the brutal murder of a young womanâthe latest in a string of deaths across the coastâconfounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she canât shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesnât get to the truth, sheâll be the killerâs next victim...
A dark story about obsession and the things weâll do for love, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiestâŠ
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardâwinning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary peopleâs lives.
History is a flood. The mighty red . . .
In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding.
Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his.
Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. Heâs determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker.
Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughterâs and her own.
Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day.
The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.
Book 2 in the New Species series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series.
Dr. Trisha Norbit is flat on her back in a hospital bed, pinned under a really big New Species male. Though drugged out of his mind, he promises her ecstasy and is determined to deliverâbut hospital staff intervenes. 215 is a man Trisha will never forget. But, when she meets him again at HomelandâŠhe doesnât even remember her!
The nosy new doctor wants to know all about the breeding habits between humans and Species. Slade proposes a hands-on education but sheâs not interested in a one-night stand. He canât offer more because heâs haunted by the memory of a woman he once tried to claim. Heâs shocked when he realizes they are one and the same. Heâs blown itâsheâll never give him a chance now.
But, when her life is in danger, heâs the only one who can save her. As they flee through the wilderness, their desire ignites and cannot be denied. Hot sex, on the run, has consequences that are even more dangerous and will change their lives forever.
From the number one bestselling author Catherine Doyle comes the most fiery enemies-to-lovers romantasy of the year. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Leigh Bardugo, and Stephanie Garber.
In the dark underbelly of a beautiful city, two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous mistake of all is falling in loveâŠ
In Fantome, a kingdom of cobbled streets, flickering lamplight, beautiful buildings, and secret catacombs, Shade-magic is a scarce and deadly commodity controlled by two enemy factions: the Cloaks and the Daggers â the thieves and the assassins. On the night of her motherâs murder, 17-year-old Seraphine runs for her life, seeking sanctuary with the Cloaks. Seraâs heart is set on revenge. But are her secret abilities a match for the dark-haired boy whose quicksilver eyes follow her around the city?
Nothing can prepare Sera for the moment she finally comes face-to-face with Ransom, heir to the Order of Daggers. And Ransom is shocked to discover that this unassuming farm girl wields a strange and blazing magic he has never seen beforeâŠ
Among rumours of monsters stalking the streets and the rival guilds grappling for control of Fantomeâs underworld, Sera and Ransom are drawn together by something more than just magic and must face a deadly choice - forgiveness or vengeance? Kiss or kill? Dagger or Flame?
From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can changeâor even make our peace withâthe path weâve taken.
Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfatherâs military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down. But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are: find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knewâand where to find him.
Tanner is due at his next posting soon, but his curiosity is piqued, and he sets out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask around. Heâs been in town less than twenty-four hours when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a doctor and single mom. They both feel an immediate connection; Tanner knows Kaitlyn has a story to tell, and he wants to hear it. To Kaitlyn, Tanner is mysterious, excitingâand possibly leaving in just a few weeks.
Meanwhile, nearby, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a national forest. With only his old dog, Arlo, for company, he lives quietly, haunted by a tragic accident that took place decades before. When he hears rumors that a white deer has been spotted in the forestâa creature of legend that inspired his father and grandfatherâhe becomes obsessed with protecting the deer from poachers.
As these charactersâ fates orbit closer together, none of them is expecting a miracle... but that may be exactly what is about to alter their futures forever.
From the author of Maybe Next Time comes a funny and emotional read about a couple struggling in their relationship who accidentally swap bodies on their way to a family wedding weekend.
Amy and Flynn have been dating for two years. And they love each other. Donât they?
Only Amy canât read Flynnâs mind and Flynn canât read Amyâs. Little do they know this weekend is make or break.
Amyâs nervous older sister is getting married at the worldâs swankiest wedding venue in rural Devon and is relying on her younger sister to be the perfect Chief Bridesmaid. Frustrations on the way to the wedding escalate until both Amy and Flynn are shouting at each other in a country lane during a thunderstorm. Why canât they see things from the otherâs point of view? When lightning strikes, Flynn and Amy are thrown to the ground, and when they stand back up they realizeâtheyâve switched bodies.
Forced to attend the glamorous wedding weekend as each other is surely an impossible task. With spa mornings, exes, flash mob rehearsals, speeches and more, getting through this swap will test their relationship to breaking point. And when they each discover big secrets in the otherâs pastâit seems that switching bodies could be the least of their problems. Even if they do manage to swap backâcan their relationship survive?
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and familyâbut especially loveâfrom the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirtiesâsuccessful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fatherâs death, heâs medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different womenâhis enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interludeâa period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills.
Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the worldâs first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keaneâs work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.
They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanityâs next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the islandâs residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.
Set in the worldâs largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
The Nobel Prize winnerâs latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.
In September 1913, MieczysĆaw, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitzâs Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior?
Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the surrounding highlands reach the men, a sense of dread builds. Someone--or something--seems to be watching them and attempting to infiltrate their world.
Little does MieczysĆaw realize, as he attempts to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.
A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore, and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.
A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel in this fiendishly clever, suspenseful new novel.
Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the Master of Suspense. There, Alfred offers his guests round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows.
To celebrate the hotelâs first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasnât spoken to any of them in sixteen years, not after what happened.
But who better than them to appreciate Alfredâs creation? And to help him finish it.
After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.
The author of New York Times bestseller and Reeseâs Book Club pick Lucky returns with a love letter to rock ânâ roll and star-crossed love. Follow Jane Pyreâs road trip around Europe as she attempts to find out what really happened to her partner in love and music, who disappeared without a trace years earlier, leaving Jane to pick up the pieces.
Jane Pyre was once one half of one of the most famous rock ânâ roll duos in the world, The Lightning Bottles. Years later, sheâs perhaps the most hated (and least understood) woman in music. She was never as popular with fans as her bandmate (and soulmate) Elijahâeven if Jane was the one who wrote the songs that catapulted The Lightning Bottles to instant, dizzying fame, first in the Seattle grunge scene, and then around the world. But then Elijah disappeared and everything came crashing down.
Even now, years after Elijah vanished, Jane is universally blamed and reviled by the public. In an attempt to get some peace and quiet, Jane rents a house in a remote part of Germany where she knows she wonât be disturbed. But on the day she arrives, sheâs confronted by her new next-door neighbor, a sullen teenaged girl named Hen who just so happens to be a Lightning Bottles superfanâand who claims to have a piece of information that might solve the mystery of what happened to Elijah, and whether he is, in fact, still alive and leaving messages for Jane after all these years.
A cross-continent road trip about two misunderstood outsiders brought together by their shared love of music, interwoven with flashbacks to the beginnings of Jane and Elijahâs love story and meteoric rise, The Lightning Bottles is a love story, a celebration of rock ânâ roll, and a searing portrait of the cost of fame.
This is the story of Hazel, a young healer navigating a ruthless court to save the life of the king, grappling with a pantheon of gods with questionable agendas as she fights for agency and true love in her own life as the goddaughter of none other than Death himself.
All gifts come with a price.
Hazel TrĂ©pas has always known she wasnât like the rest of her siblings. A thirteenth child, promised away to one of the gods, she spends her childhood waiting for her godfatherâMerrick, the Dreaded Endâto arrive.
When he does, he lays out exactly how heâs planned Hazelâs future. She will become a great healer, known throughout the kingdom for her precision and skill. To aid her endeavors, Merrick blesses Hazel with a gift, the ability to instantly deduce the exact cure needed to treat the sick.
But all gifts come with a price. Hazel can see when Death has claimed a patientâwhen all hope is goneâand is tasked to end their suffering, permanently. Haunted by the ghosts of those sheâs killed, Hazel longs to run. But destiny brings her to the royal court, where she meets Leo, a rakish prince with a disdain for everything and everyone. And itâs where Hazel faces her biggest dilemma yetâto save the life of a king marked to die. Hazel knows what she is meant to do and knows what her heart is urging her toward, but what will happen if she goes against the will of Death?
From the astonishing mind of Erin A. Craig comes the breathtaking fairy tale retelling readers have been waiting forâ what does a life well-lived mean, and how do we justify the impossible choices we make for the ones we love?
Artemio Furia is no ordinary man. He is a gaucho whose name is spoken with both respect and fear across all levels of society. Between 1806 and 1807, his centaurs and he served in the armies of Juan MartĂn de PueyrredĂłn to expel the English.
His influence among the locals is decisive. It is said that, with a mere snap of his fingers, he can incite the entire countryside to rise.
As the May Revolution of 1810 begins to unfold, the patriotic faction, desiring the independence of the RĂo de la Plata, calls upon him to fight for freedom. Having the support of the gaucho Furia's forces could mean victory.
Amidst these political intrigues that could end his life, the dark and tragic past of Artemio Furia resurfaces. Although he wishes to forget it, honor compels him to confront it with vengeance. In this other battle, Artemio Furia may lose more than his life. He may lose love.