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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Old Crimes delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close, even as the past continues to reverberate across generations. And despite the characters? yearnings for connection, they can?t seem to tell the whole truth: A woman uses her hearing impairment as a way to guard herself from her husband?s commentary. A telephone lineman strains to communicate with his family even as he feels pushed aside in a digital world. A...
2) Never lie
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English
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"Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains...
3) End of story
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Language
English
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Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, a few months after the death of her husband, Angela is devastated when she is ejected from her graduate program in linguistics at Harvard University. Soon after, she suffers a miscarriage. Spinning and raw, and with suppressed unresolved trauma, the young widow and her four-year-old child move into her mother's house. Trained with an understanding of spoken language as the essential foundation of thought, Angela finds underpaid work at the...
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English
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A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past, in a thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New...
Author
Publisher
Atmosphere Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Family. The same people who destroyed Gavin's self-esteem are the ones he must save. When Gavin looks in the mirror he sees his twin Devon - literally. Yet like the mirror, inside they are the reverse of each other. Devon is the chosen one, anointed by their tough Mob-connected father, who demeans Gavin as a nerd but expects him to save his brother from his worst instincts. Gavin struggles to believe in himself and make his own decisions in the face...
Author
Publisher
Datura
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Iris Henderson wakes up in a hospital bed alone, with no memory of why or how she got there. Moments later, she is introduced to her husband Marcus, a man she does not even recognise. And things only get stranger from there. Iris is told that she volunteered to be the first test-subject for a ground-breaking AI therapy, and that she is the pioneering scientist behind the experimental treatment. Whilst everyone warns her to leave it alone, a confused...
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English
Description
"Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style twenty years old, living and working...
Author
Publisher
Other Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it's not too late to live it. A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times Book Review). Forty years ago-almost a lifetime-he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late mother's house with the obsolete archive of the newspaper...
10) Easy prey
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Publisher
Ryan D. Mims
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mary Salter is a city councilwoman trying to find solutions to poverty and homelessness in her city. She has built a team of activists to support those in need. John Gordon is an FBI Agent investigating a series of murders across the South Western United States. They must team up because a serial killer is preying on the poorest members of El Cajon. They are not prepared for what they discover. Vampires are real and they like easy prey. Will John...
12) Orange laughter
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In tales that weave back and forth from New York City in the 1990s to North Carolina in the 1960s, Tony Pellar fights madness in the subway tunnels as he flees the Soul Snatcher and tries to remember the people of his childhood including Mikey, a childhood friend, and Agatha, a woman with a disfigured face.
13) The book of fire
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that will consume their home, and their lives as they know it,...
14) The teacher
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English
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"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Kiersten McCann, president of the West Hollywood Moms' Club, turns up dead in her own pool, it quickly becomes clear this wasn't an accident. And the party guests-all members of the exclusive club-are now key suspects in her murder. Accusations fly, and three mothers find themselves at the center of the investigation. Whitney, Brooke, and Jade all have heavy secrets to bear...and possible motives for their friend's murder. But as the police...
16) I will follow
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Shea Davison is a teen-aged TikTok star with nearly a million followers, but she is being followed by Nora, who is convinced that she and Shea are fated to be best friends--even if she has to kidnap Shea to make it a reality.
17) Martyr!
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Language
English
Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work...
19) The guests
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
As a hurricane besieges their coastal Florida town, the Davies family invites close friends to wait out the storm in comfort and style, but when three uninvited strangers seeking safe haven arrive, long-held secrets are revealed, one by one, until only one truth remains: not everyone is going to make it out alive.
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Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Lion City has gone by many names and is famous for many things--its decadent street food, its world-class shopping, its lush gardens that burst with tropical blooms. But paradise is always hiding a snake. For Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK, Singapore is opportunity. Every day, brokering deals for her firm's wealthy clientele, she gets closer to her ultimate goal: making partner. For Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria, Singapore...