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Palace of the Drowned: A Novel

Christine Mangan - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

It's 1966 and years have passed since the initial success of Frankie Croy's debut novel. She has spent her career trying to live up to the expectations of her editor and fans, only to fall short with each new publication. Now, after a particularly scathing review of her most recent...
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Something Read, Something Dead

Eva Gates - Wheeler Publishing Large Print
Format: Large Print

A bride-to-bes wedding is destroyed when her overbearing grandmother imposes her own plans and her cousin suddenly dies after eating a bridal-shower treat she made, in the fifth novel of the series following The Spook in the Stacks. (mystery & detective) .
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Las chicas robadas

Patricia Gibney
Format: Pocket Book

Cuatro chicas desaparecidas. Un secreto enterrado en el pasado. Lunes por la maana. Un obrero encuentra el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer embarazada. Ese mismo da, una joven acude con su hijo a la casa de la inspectora Lottie Parker para pedirle ayuda: su amiga ha desaparecido. Podra tratarse...
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Echoland: A Novel

Per Petterson - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback


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Minor Threats Volume 1: A Quick End To A Long Beginning

Patton Oswalt - ?Dark Horse Books
Format: Paperback

A new original comic series from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum - showrunners of Marvel's M.O.D.O.K on Hulu - and superstar artist Scott Hepburn!In the vein of Sin City, Watchmen, and The Boys, this noir-ish superhero caper, focuses on a lower-class kind of criminal, similar to the Coen...
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The Pieces We Keep

Kristina McMorris - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print

"In this richly emotional novel, Kristina McMorris evokes the depth of a mother's bond with her child, and the power of personal histories to echo through generations. . . Two years have done little to ease veterinarian Audra Hughes's grief over her husband's untimely death....
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Future tense: The cinema of science fiction

John Brosnan - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Future Tense anticipates every question that a lover of cinematic science fiction could want to ask. Technical mastery and special effects, the differences between written science fiction and filmed science fiction, history and lore of the genre - are all covered here along with plot summaries...
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Ek Aur Bisaat

Omi Singh
Format: Paperback


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Remain Silent: A Manon Bradshaw Novel

Susie Steiner - Random House
Format: Hardcover

An immigrant's mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth--a gripping crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed and Persons Unknown, featuring a "delightful protagonist who deserves a place alongside other beloved literary detectives."**Kirkus Reviews (starred...
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It's So Magic

LYNDA BARRY - Perennial
Format: Hardcover

The latest book full of "Ernie Pook's Comeek" installments features fewer of the emotional storms of early adolescence than My Perfect Life (1992) , arguably Barry's best collection. It's more about what impinges on late-1960s midteener Maybonne Mullen than what she initiates,...
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