FICTION
In IMAGINE ME GONE, when Margaret’s fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him… THE MOTHER is about an emotionally devastated mother’s struggle to understand her teenage son’s death and her search for meaning and hope in the wake of incomprehensible loss… In THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway… JUNE is a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever… FLIGHT PATTERNS is the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind—and to the woman she always wanted to be…
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MYSTERY & THRILLER
THE OUTLIERS is a story where one girl learns that in a world of intrigue, betrayal, and deeply buried secrets, it is vital to trust your instincts… SWEET LAMB OF HEAVEN is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office… In BOAR ISLAND, fearless park ranger Anna Pigeon as she battles to solve a heinous crime set amidst the wild and dangerous landscape of a US National Park… DON’T YOU CRY takes readers on a taut and twisted thrill ride that shows that no matter how fast and far we run, the past always catches up with us in the end… In BEFORE THE FALL, eleven people depart Martha’s Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York when the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul’s family.
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SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
In NIGHT SHIFT, at Midnight’s local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves—only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town… Set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe, in CHILDREN OF EARTH AND SKY where empires and faiths collide to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming… In ZERO K, Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise… THE PROGENY is a modern twist to an ancient mystery surrounding the most notorious female serial killer of all time… THE DARKEST TORMENT, the latest Lords of the Underworld tale, is about a fierce warrior on the brink of sanity who will stop at nothing to claim the exquisite human with the power to soothe the beast inside him…
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YA
THE STAR-TOUCHED QUEEN is a lush, vividly-imagined fantasy inspired by Indian mythology with a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction… With time travel, quantum physics, and sweeping romance, THE SQUARE ROOT OF SUMMER is an exponentially enthralling story about love, loss, and trying to figure it all out… EVEN THE SKY FALLS explores whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance about discovering what it means to feel alive in the face of one of life’s greatest dangers: love… HIGHLY ILLOGICAL BEHAVIOR is quirky story of coming-of-age, coming out, friendship, love—and agoraphobia… In OUTRUN THE MOON, strong-willed Mercy Wong leads a cast of diverse characters in this extraordinary tale of survival set against a backdrop of devastating tragedy.
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MIDDLE GRADE / CHILDREN’S BOOKS
In AS BRAVE AS YOU, winner of the Coretta Scott King – Johnson Steptoe Award, everything backfires—literally—when two brothers decide to prove how brave they are… TROUBLE THE WATER is a sweeping tale of the friendship between a black girl and a white boy and the prejudices they must overcome in segregated Celeste, Kentucky, as the pair try to solve the mysteries surrounding a lonely old dog… In THE HIDDEN ORACLE, After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus, landing in New York City as a regular teenage boy… In WISHING DAY, on the third night of the third month after a girl’s thirteenth birthday, every girl in the town of Willow Hill makes three wishes—the first wish is an impossible wish, the second comes from true herself, and the third, the deepest wish of her secret heart… In THE GIRL OF INK AND STARS, Isabella Riosse, forbidden to leave her island, dreams of the faraway lands her father once mapped—the island’s Forgotten Territories…
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