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Boy Meets Girl
by Meg Cabot
A romantic comedy about a girl who falls in love with her boss while working at a New York City newspaper.
Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: - works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal) - is sleeping on the ... (Goodreads)
Disappearing Earth
by Julia Phillips
Two sisters go missing in a remote Russian town, unraveling the lives of its inhabitants. A haunting exploration of loss, identity, and community.
In an isolated town in Far Eastern part of Russia two young girls go missing. The literary review aggregator Book Marks reported that 75% of critics gave the novel a "rave" review and 25% gave it a ... (Wikipedia)
The Vanishing Stair
by Maureen Johnson
Stevie Bell continues her investigation into the murder at Ellingham Academy, but the stakes are higher and danger lurks around every corner.
New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In, New York Times, bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell ... (Barnes & Noble)
A Woman Is No Man
by Etaf Rum
Three generations of Palestinian women struggle to break free from the oppressive cultural norms of their community in Brooklyn.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA, TODAY, SHOW, BOOK CLUB PICK A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALIST FOR BEST FICTION AND BEST DEBUT • BOOKBROWE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A, MARIE CLAIRE, ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Turn of the Key
by Ruth Ware
A young nanny takes a job in a remote Scottish mansion, but strange occurrences and a murder trial leave her questioning her sanity.
INSTANT, NEW YORK TIMES, BESTSELLER “A superb suspense writer...Brava, Ruth Ware. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.” —Maureen Corrigan, author of, So We Read On, “This appropriately ... (Barnes & Noble)
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
by Mark Dunn
A story told through letters of a society that forbids certain letters of their language, unraveling their oppressive regime.
The plot is conveyed through mail or notes sent between various characters. The book is "progressively lipogrammatic"—as the story proceeds, more and more letters of the alphabet are excluded from ... (Wikipedia)
The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
A woman's spiritual journey of faith and doubt, set against the backdrop of a mysterious sea-serpent.
After being widowed when her wealthy, abusive husband dies of throat cancer, Cora Seaborne decides to ignore the trappings of her London society life and take up amateur palaeontology. Vacationing in ... (Wikipedia)
The Word Is Murder
by Anthony Horowitz
A woman is murdered hours after planning her own funeral. Private investigator Hawthorne and author Horowitz team up to solve the case.
She planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder? One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to ... (Goodreads)
The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
An intrepid reporter embarks on a luxury cruise, uncovering a dark and dangerous mystery.
INSTANT, NEW YORK TIMES, AND, USA TODAY, BESTSELLER, , FROM THE AUTHOR OF, IN A DARK, DARK WOOD, , Featured in TheSkimm, , An, Entertainment Weekly, “Summer Must List” Pick, , A, New York Post, ... (Barnes & Noble)
Horrorstör
by Grady Hendrix
A group of employees battle supernatural forces in a haunted Scandinavian furniture store.
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed ... (Goodreads)
A Trick of the Light
by Louise Penny
A murder mystery set in a small Quebec village, as a young detective uncovers secrets of the past.
"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden ... (Goodreads)
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
A small group of misfit college students uncover a sinister secret and their lives become entangled with dangerous consequences.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the ... (Goodreads)
The Waves
by Virginia Woolf
Inner musings of six characters in search of individual identity, expressed through the ebb and flow of the sea.
The novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood. Woolf is concerned with the individual consciousness and the ways in which multiple consciousnesses can weave together. Bernard ... (Wikipedia)
No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
A young man's struggles with emotional turmoil and suicidal ideation.
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human , this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a ... (Goodreads)
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
A couple's dream of a child comes true in the Alaskan wilderness, but with unexpected consequences.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she ... (Goodreads)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
An epic tale of love and adventure set in an 18th century Japanese trading port.
The novel begins in the summer of 1799 at the Dutch East India Company trading post Dejima in the harbor of Nagasaki . It tells the story of a Dutch trader's love for a Japanese midwife who is ... (Wikipedia)
The Arrangement
by Robyn Harding
A married couple agrees to an open relationship, but their arrangement quickly spirals out of control.
A, Pretty Woman, tale turns toxic and deadly in this provocative thriller of sex, obsession, and murder from Robyn Harding, the “master of domestic suspense” (Kathleen Barber) and the, USA TODAY, ... (Barnes & Noble)
An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
A newlywed couple's lives are torn apart when the husband is wrongfully convicted of a crime. The novel explores love, loyalty, and injustice.
Roy, a sales representative for a textbook company, and Celestial, an artist specializing in custom made baby dolls, are newlyweds who live in Atlanta. After their first year of marriage they travel ... (Wikipedia)
No Judgments
by Meg Cabot
A young woman returns to her hometown in Florida to help her grandmother during a hurricane, and finds love and self-discovery along the way.
The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida—and it’s sending waves crashing through Sabrina “Bree” Beckham’s love life… When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell ... (Barnes & Noble)
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
A man is the last survivor of a zombie-creating virus, struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Robert Neville appears to be the sole survivor of a pandemic that has killed most of the human population and turned the remainder into " vampires " that largely conform to their stereotypes in ... (Wikipedia)
A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
An exploration of the connections between two lives, bridging time, space and cultures.
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her ... (Goodreads)
Necessary People
by Anna Pitoniak
Two best friends navigate their competitive relationship as they both pursue success in the cutthroat world of New York City media.
One of them has it all. One of them wants it all. But they can't both win. Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, ... (Goodreads)
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
A man's struggle for identity and acceptance amidst a tumultuous romantic relationship.
David, a young American man whose girlfriend has gone off to Spain to contemplate marriage, is left alone in Paris and begins an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni. The entire story is narrated by ... (Wikipedia)
Nightrise
by Anthony Horowitz
Twins Jamie and Scott Tyler discover their supernatural powers and must use them to stop an evil organization from taking over the world.
The story begins with fourteen-year-old identical twin brothers Jamie and Scott Tyler, performing in a theatre in Reno, Nevada . The Nightrise Corporation is to kidnap the boys, who are part of the ... (Wikipedia)
Someone We Know
by Shari Lapena
A suburban neighborhood is rocked by a teenage boy's murder, revealing secrets and lies among its residents.
Maybe you don't know your neighbors as well as you thought you did . . . "This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently ... (Goodreads)
Evil Star
by Anthony Horowitz
The second book in the "Power of Five" series, five teenagers must stop an ancient evil from destroying the world.
Following the events of, Raven's Gate, (which took place a few weeks before the beginning of Evil Star ), Matt goes to a new private school which the Nexus are funding, but is left friendless because ... (Wikipedia)
Gone the Next
by Ben Rehder
A private investigator searches for a missing boy, uncovering dark secrets in a small Texas town.
Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him ... (Barnes & Noble)
Melmoth
by Sarah Perry
A haunting tale of a woman cursed to wander the earth, seeking out those who have committed unforgivable sins.
“Masterful…scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Last Queen
by C.W. Gortner
A historical fiction novel about the life of Juana of Castile, the last queen of Spain. Her tumultuous reign and personal struggles are explored.
Juana of Castile, the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country's throne, has been for centuries an enigmatic figure shrouded in lurid myth. Was she the bereft widow of legend who was driven ... (Goodreads)
The Test
by Sylvain Neuvel
A psychological thriller where candidates for a job are put through a series of bizarre tests. The stakes are high and the consequences are deadly.
Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in, The Test, Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. ... (Barnes & Noble)
