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The Hollywood Daughter: A Novel

Kate Alcott · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman - already...
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All Grown Up

Jami Attenberg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say:...
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Silence Fallen

Patricia Briggs · Ace Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In the #1 New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson novels, the coyote shapeshifter has found her voice in the werewolf pack. But when Mercy's bond with the pack - and her mate - is broken, she'll learn what it truly means to be alone... Attacked and abducted in her home territory, Mercy...
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The Devil's Feast

M J Carter · Putnam
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Investigative team Blake and Avery find themselves entangled in a case involving political conflicts, personal vendettas, and England's first celebrity chef. London, 1842. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest...
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Ill Will: A Novel

Dan Chaon · Ballantine Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Two sensational unsolved crimes - one in the past, another in the present - are linked by one man's memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. "We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves,"...
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Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story

Steven Curtis Chapman · Flemming H Revell
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

For decades, Steven Curtis Chapman's music and message have brought hope and inspiration to millions around the world. Now, for the first time, Steven openly shares the experiences that have shaped him, his faith, and his music in a life that has included incredible highs and faith-shaking...
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Pekoe Most Poison

Laura Childs · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs, Theodosia Browning attends a "Rat Tea," where the mice will play...at murder. When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses,...
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The Devil's Triangle

Catherine Coulter · Gallery Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes the highly anticipated thriller in their Brit in the FBI series, featuring special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine in their new roles as heads of the Covert Eyes team - but will their first case...
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The Cutthroat

Clive Cussler · Putnam
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in the newest action-adventure novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite...
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Dead Letters: A Novel

Caite Dolan-Leach · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A missing woman leads her twin sister on a twisted scavenger hunt in this clever debut novel of suspense for readers of Luckiest Girl Alive and Reconstructing Amelia. "Ahoy, Ava! Welcome home, my sweet jet-setting twin! So glad you were able to wrest yourself away from your dazzling...
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Every Wild Heart

Meg Donohue · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From USA Today bestselling author Meg Donohue comes a mystery, a love story, and a mother-daughter tale about two women on a precarious journey to uncover their true selves.Passionate and funny, radio personality Gail Gideon is a true original. Nine years ago when Gail's husband announced...
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Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars: A Novel

Miranda Emmerson · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In this sparkling debut novel imbued with the rich intrigue of Kate Atkinson's literary mysteries and the spirited heart of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, a disparate group of Londoners plunge into a search for a missing American actress.In the dreary days of November 1965, American...
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The Roanoke Girls: A Novel

Amy Engel · Crown
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die." After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's...
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Michael Finkel · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old...
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Her Secret: The Amish of Hart County

Shelley Shepard Gray · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray begins a new series - The Amish of Hart County - with this suspenseful tale of a young Amish woman who is forced to move to a new town to escape a threatening stalker.After a stalker went too far, Hannah Hilty and her family...
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Gunmetal Gray

Mark Greaney · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, delivers another breakneck thriller following the world's deadliest assassin - the Gray Man ... After five years on the run Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA. But his first...
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Most Dangerous Place: A Jack Swyteck Novel

James Grippando · Harpercollins
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense - based on shocking true-life events - from the New York Times bestselling...
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Celine: A novel

Peter Heller · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. Working out of her jewel box of an apartment...
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The Wanderers

Meg Howrey · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them - and their families - changed forever...
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The Evening Road

Laird Hunt · Little
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Two women, two secrets: one desperate and extraordinary day. Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness...
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Mississippi Blood: A Novel

Greg Iles · William Morrow
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

Greg Iles spent most of his youth in Natchez, Mississippi. His first novel, Spandau Phoenix, was the first of thirteen New York Times bestsellers, and his new trilogy continues the story of Penn Cage, protagonist of The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Devil's...
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Man Overboard

J.A. Jance · Touchstone Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In the latest Ali Reynolds mystery from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, Ali takes to the high seas with her husband.Roger McGeary, a brilliant software engineer, has gifted himself with an upscale cruise in honor of his fortieth birthday. When he falls to his death from the balcony...
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The Devil and Webster

Jean Hanff Korelitz · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college president and a student protest that mirrors today's campus unrest. Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing...
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If Not for You: A Novel

Debbie Macomber · Ballantine
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Debbie Macomber returns with a powerful and uplifting novel set in the same world as her New York Times bestseller A Girl's Guide to Moving On. After living in the shadow of her overbearing parents for twenty-five years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her life. She moves...
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Forever a Hero

Linda Lael Miller · Harlequin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

For the youngest Carson brother, finding - and fixing - trouble seems to be all in a day's work Mace Carson doesn't consider himself a hero. Back in college, he came upon a woman in trouble and intervened - but he was just one irate Wyoming cowboy with his boots planted firmly on the side...
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My Darling Detective

Howard Norman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman Jacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction - his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle....
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Under the Knife: A Novel

Kelly Parsons · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Biotechnology tycoon Morgan Finney is highly intelligent but shy and emotionally fragile. When his beloved wife Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will...
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The Black Book

James; Ellis David Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime?Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life....
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Murder on the Serpentine: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In the history of Anne Perry's bestselling Victorian mystery series, the stakes have never been greater than now - as a mission for queen and country places the future of the British Empire squarely in Thomas Pitt's hands. It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive...
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961

Nicholas Reynolds · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II.While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds,...
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New York 2140

Kim Stanley Robinson · Orbit
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always...
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Shining City: A Novel

Tom Rosenstiel · Ecco
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Peter Rena is a "fixer." With his partner, Randi Brooks, he is hired by the powerful elite to make problems disappear. Whether it's the Speaker of the House looking to get a scandal-ridden congresswoman to resign or the NFL calling about an out of control quarterback, Rena...
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The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi · Tor
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space,...
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The Woman on the Stairs: A Novel

Bernhard Schlink · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A missing painting. A mysterious woman. Her husband and her lover. Here, the internationally acclaimed author delivers what his fans have been waiting for since The Reader - a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love. A brilliant and naïve young lawyer's life is changed...
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Lisa See · Scribner
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple.Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been...
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Dangerous Games: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Bringing together a cast of fascinating characters in a riveting tale of ambition and corruption, politics, passion, and ultimate justice, Dangerous Games is a thrilling drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets...
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Never Let You Go

Chevy Stevens · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The author of Still Missing targets her readership with a novel that hits all the notes they come to expect from her -- and ratchets up the stakes even more. Lindsey Nash has left an abusive relationship and her ex-husband was sent to jail. She has started over with a new life, her own business,...
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Almost Missed You: A Novel

Jessica Strawser · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Violet and Finn were "meant to be," said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can't...
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley: A Novel

Hannah Tinti · The Dial Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past - and the truth about her mother's death - in this thrilling new novel from the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts....
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Before the War

Fay Weldon · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and -- almost worse -- intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe...
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Mangrove Lightning

Randy Wayne White · Putnam
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The ghosts of a 1925 multiple murder stalk Doc Ford, in the electrifying new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come...
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