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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
A tale of the secrets and passions of a marriage, exploring the depths of private lives.
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, ... (Goodreads)
419
by Will Ferguson
A Nigerian email scam spirals into a global web of deceit, revealing the dark side of the internet and human nature.
A startlingly original tale of heartbreak and suspense A car tumbles down a snowy ravine. Accident or suicide? On the other side of the world, a young woman walks out of a sandstorm in sub-Saharan ... (Goodreads)
The Disappeared
by C.J. Box
Wyoming game warden investigates the disappearance of a wealthy British businessman and uncovers a sinister plot.
Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. Three British executives, all women, never came home from the high-end guest ranch ... (Goodreads)
Moon of the Crusted Snow
by Waubgeshig Rice
A remote Anishinaabe community faces an unexpected crisis as the power grid fails and the outside world becomes unreachable.
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic ... (Goodreads)
Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
A pregnant woman embarks on a journey to find safety in a world of deteriorating evolution.
Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event in this dystopian ... (Goodreads)
Three Day Road
by Joseph Boyden
Two Cree snipers fight in WWI, one returns home addicted to morphine, the other lost to the war.
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is ... (Goodreads)
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Nine strangers are brought together by their love for trees, leading to a fight to save the last of the remaining forests.
Nicholas Hoel, Mimi Ma, Adam Appich, Ray Brinkman, Dorothy Cazaly, Douglas Pavlicek, Neelay Mehta, Patricia Westerford, and Olivia Vandergriff are people who had unique relationships with trees which ... (Wikipedia)
The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
A dystopian future where Indigenous people have the power to dream, and the government is trying to steal it.
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's ... (Goodreads)
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
Post-apocalyptic exploration of a world drastically changed after a pandemic.
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse,, Station Eleven, tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of ... (Barnes & Noble)
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
A multi-generational saga of secrets, tragedy, and resilience in a family of sisters.
At the start of the 20th century, James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live. Working as a piano tuner, he meets and ... (Wikipedia)
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
A story of love and loss set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France.
The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her work could be completed. By the early l940s, when ... (Goodreads)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
An elderly woman's journey of self-discovery, as she investigates a series of mysterious animal deaths.
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her ... (Goodreads)
Reverie
by Ryan La Sala
A teenage boy must navigate a dream world to uncover the truth behind a mysterious attack. Reality and fantasy blur in this thrilling adventure.
This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition includes an annotated chapter with handwriting and drawings from the author in the margins, two pages of author notes, two pages of illustrations from the ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Girl with All the Gifts
by M.R. Carey
A post-apocalyptic world where a young girl holds the key to humanity's survival.
Twenty years ago humanity was infected by a variant of the fungus native to South America called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which led to the Breakdown - the end of civilization as it was before. ... (Wikipedia)
Lanny
by Max Porter
A young boy named Lanny disappears from a small English village, and the community comes together to search for him.
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from ... (Goodreads)
The Reckless Oath We Made
by Bryn Greenwood
A knight-obsessed woman and a man with a brain injury form an unlikely bond and embark on a dangerous mission.
Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her ... (Goodreads)
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
by Andrew Sean Greer
Greta Wells navigates parallel lives in different eras, exploring love, loss, and the complexities of identity.
1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the break up with her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating ... (Goodreads)
The Last Train to London
by Meg Waite Clayton
A novel based on the true story of a woman who saved Jewish children from the Nazis by organizing their transport to England.
The, New York Times, bestselling author of, Beautiful Exiles, conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of, Orphan Train, and, All the Light We Cannot ... (Goodreads)
The Matlock Paper
by Robert Ludlum
A young law student uncovers a conspiracy involving the CIA and a secret operation in Africa.
James Barbour Matlock is a Vietnam veteran and college professor - but now the US government have an assignment for him. They want him to investigate what seems to be a large-scale dope and ... (Goodreads)
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
A gripping story of four unlikely lives intertwined in the tumult of India's caste system.
The book exposes the changes in Indian society from independence in 1947 to the Emergency called by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi . Mistry was generally critical of Indira Gandhi in the book. ... (Wikipedia)
The Bitterroots
by C.J. Box
Private investigator Cassie Dewell returns to her hometown to help an old friend, but finds herself entangled in a dangerous case involving a family with dark secrets.
A riveting novel from, New York Times, bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box,, The Bitterroots, The ties that bind can burn you. Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying ... (Barnes & Noble)
...And Ladies of the Club
by Helen Hooven Santmyer
A group of women form a club in a small Ohio town in 1868, and their lives intertwine over the next 60 years.
A #1 New York Times bestseller–and an American classic--now in trade paperback... A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, " ...And Ladies of the Club " centers on the ... (Goodreads)
The Sound of Rain
by Gregg Olsen
A detective returns to his hometown to solve a murder case, but uncovers dark secrets from his past.
Former homicide detective Nicole Foster has hit rock bottom. Driven off the force by her treacherous partner and lover, she’s flat broke and struggling with a gambling addiction. All Nicole has left ... (Goodreads)
The Third Angel
by Alice Hoffman
Three women's lives intertwine in a London hotel, each seeking love and redemption. A haunting tale of love, loss, and the power of storytelling.
In The Third Angel , Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly ... (Goodreads)
Faith
by Jennifer Haigh
A family's faith is tested when a priest is accused of sexual abuse. The novel explores the complexities of belief, loyalty, and forgiveness.
"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." — NewYork Times "We have the intriguing possibility that the next great American author is already in ... (Barnes & Noble)
If the Creek Don't Rise
by Leah Weiss
A small Appalachian town is plagued by poverty, abuse, and secrets. The lives of several residents intertwine in unexpected ways.
A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in southern fiction. In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie ... (Goodreads)
Badlands
by C.J. Box
A gripping thriller about a game warden's investigation into a murder in the remote wilderness of Wyoming.
In C.J. Box's, Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
by Karina Yan Glaser
The Vanderbeeker family tries to save their beloved Harlem brownstone from being sold, while also navigating family dynamics and neighborhood relationships.
From, New York Times, best-selling author Karina Yan Glaser comes one of, Times', Notable Children's Books of 2017: “In this delightful and heartwarming throwback to the big-family novels of ... (Barnes & Noble)
Swimming Lessons
by Claire Fuller
A woman disappears, leaving behind letters to her husband hidden in his books. Her daughter tries to uncover the truth about her mother's disappearance.
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When ... (Goodreads)
All the Birds, Singing
by Evie Wyld
A woman's journey of self-discovery, dealing with the consequences of her past.
From one of Granta 's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt ... (Goodreads)
