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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The London house Winston rents shares a dilapidated back garden with the house next door, recently bought by Bernice. Their feud starts even before she moves in, mostly fueled by Winston's grief as he watches his workaholic boyfriend drift away and newly divorced Bernice's desperate attempt to provide a stable home for her son. Winston starts receiving envelopes with images from the garden's heyday, inspiring him to start cleaning it up, for himself...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When 22-year-old Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude's face and name are the only memories Kat has from before her accident. As Kat tries to relearn her history and identity, she trusts Jude will provide all the answers. But as the months progress, Kat begins to fear that, maybe, Jude has been lying to her. Recruit. Hunt. Perform or Perish. Growing up in a sophisticated New Age cult, isolated from...
4) Stranded
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When eight people arrive on the beautiful but remote Buidseach Island, they are ready for the challenge of a lifetime: to live alone for one year. Eighteen months later, a woman is found in an isolated fishing village. She's desperate to explain what happened to her: how the group fractured and friends became enemies. How they did what they must to survive until the boat came to collect them. And how things turned deadly when the boat didn't come....
5) Ilium
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
She is young and unmoored, with no family and no sense of self or purpose, and longs for a life less boring. When a mysterious older man named Marcus woos her at a party in the very same garden she coveted as a child, it seems less coincidence than salvation. After a whirlwind romance and marriage, Marcus confesses he is dying and enlists her in a mission that offers an identity and a lifestyle surpassing anything she could ever have imagined. Enter...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know who's responsible: a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs living in an old mine settlement deep in the woods. Detective Barbara Atkins, a specialist in vampyr killings, is called in to officially determine if this is a Colony killing-and...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel, Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have no leads, and as the weeks pass there's little news. Harry...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Painter Annie Shaw appears to be living the American dream with her renowned journalist husband, Duncan, and daughter, Tabitha, in the Virginia countryside. The facade starts to crack when Annie discovers her elderly Vietnamese refugee mother's dead body among her hoarded goods in Annie's carriage house. In the weeks that follow, the emotionally fragile Annie gradually loses her grip on reality. Medication that once kept her obsessive-compulsive disorder...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Early 18th-century men who settled in the French colony of La Louisiane, in the Americas, are desperate for wives from their home country, France. The Superioress of La Salpetriere, a Parisian institution that serves as a women's hospital, prison, and orphanage, is instructed to provide a list to government authorities of fertile and obedient young women to send to Louisiana as potential brides. Petronille, Genevieve, and Charlotte are among the 90...
11) Here in the dark
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day, she savages them, with words sharper than a knife. Angling for a promotion, she reluctantly agrees to an interview,a conversation that reveals secrets she thought she had long since buried. Then her interviewer disappears...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. An architect, he finally has an opportunity to build his masterpiece with a new client. Assuming, that is, his rich, fickle client―the last woman he slept with before coming out―doesn’t follow through on her threats to mess it up. Naturally, that’s when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily (the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma, having plunged from a bridge onto train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan has always tried to...
14) Nightwatching
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's midnight, and a mother has just gotten her frightened 5-year-old son back to sleep when she hears an unexpected "wheeze of weight" on the stairs. She sees a tall stranger slink onto the landing. He's wearing plastic gloves and his grinning face is uncovered, indicating he doesn't intend to leave evidence or witnesses, and his sneakers are dry despite the storm, suggesting he's planned ahead and expects to stay a while. He misses her watching...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Neely's monsters don't always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she's in trouble. With a history of mental illness in her family, and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can't follow--the caverns. There she can find peace. There she can pretend to...
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Do you know who your neighbour is? Would you trust them with your life? I heard Emily before I saw her. The harsh smack of heels against cheap wooden floorboards. The loud phone calls. The incessant music. I knew Emily before I met her. Discarded receipts in our communal hallway. Sticky leftovers in the shared food waste bin. Wine shop vouchers in the letterbox. Now she's gone missing, and I'm the only one who can find her. The only one who can save...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money will pass to her dutiful younger brother, Wal. Still, she is left a modest remembrance from her mother, and for the first time Tempèsta has a world of choices...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited -- to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement -- Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He becomes a historian. He has a daughter, Jugnu, who grows up to be a television journalist and then escapes her marriage for a career in the United States. And...
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