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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When DNA results reveal a disturbing connection to the mysterious disappearance of a famous baby nearly three decades ago, forensic scientist Dr. Sloan Hastings' increasingly perilous search for answers draws her to an unsettling small Nevada town.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness: desire, desperation, hunger, fear, sadness, shame, longing. In these stories, a young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium --...
3) Providence
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mark Lausson has everything he thought he wanted: a coveted job at elite Sawyer College in Ohio. But at the start of his second year, stuck in a small town with deadlines piling up and paychecks falling short, Mark can already feel the fantasy crumbling. And then, a few weeks in, sophomore Tyler Cunningham shows up in class. In Tyler -- confident, mysterious, and popular -- Mark glimpses another way of being in the world. He finds Tyler's self-possession...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey"--
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Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them? These questions lie at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives, and of how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement,...
Author
Publisher
Hampton Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sugar & Spice is the latest app craze taking the world by storm, but for Abby and Brendan Hollander, downloading it leads to a dangerous game of life and death. When the app assigns them a series of increasingly taboo tasks, they soon find themselves caught up in a twisted web of seduction and violence.
7) Freak
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows a Seattle serial murder investigation centering on Abby Locke, who has been imprisoned for the attempted killing of a police officer and who has captured the attention of a violent fan obsessed with proving her innocence.
8) Daughter
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life -- and art -- of her own"--
9) Control
Author
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Determined to prevent a tragedy, an Atlanta therapist uncovers a common denominator that is plaguing six of her clients from the rap and film world and debates the merits of violating her professional position to save lives.
Author
Publisher
The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"2008. The house Maxine and Seb have just bought was a bargain -- a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye, it needs a lot of work but Max couldn't resist it. Now they are in, though, nothing seems to be going right -- and as the problems mount up, Max starts to doubt her relationship as well as her decision. Is Seb all he seems to be? And why are the neighbours so evasive about the house's previous owner? 1994. Cookie and his parents...
11) The roses of May
Author
Series
Collector trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son -- and why? Detectives suspect there's a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina's received over the years. In her line of work, it's not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence...or worse. But as the investigation deepens, the secrets that Corina, her husband,...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith -- and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
Author
Publisher
Clash Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
How to Get Along Without Me is a collection that summons the perversity and poignancy of twentysomething dating lives from a bracingly wry and honest new literary voice. In a world designed for couples, the protagonists of these interconnected stories have easy access to acquaintances with benefits but no paths to emotional intimacy.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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...
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