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 work, alongside a very public breakdown, Frankie retreats to her friend's vacant palazzo in Venice torecharge and get re-inspired.Then Gilly appears. A precocious young admirer eager to befriend her favorite author, Gilly seems determined to insinuate herself into Frankie's solitary life. But there's something about the young woman that gives Frankie pause, that makes her wonder just how much of what Gilly tells her is the truth. Set against the catastrophic 1966 flooding of Venice, the encounters between these two women will lead to a series of lies and revelations that will tragically disrupt both of their lives.
Flatiron Books
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9781250788429
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Hardcover
Something Read, Something Dead
By Gates, Eva
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) .
Wheeler Publishing Large Print
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9781432877910
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Large Print
Las chicas robadas
By Gibney, Patricia
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 de la vctima Cuando el mismo obrero descubre otro cadver, Lottie deber trabajar da y noche para averiguar qu relacin guardan los crmenes. Y, mientras tanto, otras dos chicas desaparecen. La inspectora Parker est al lmite, perseguida por su trgico pasado y luchando por mantener unida a su propia familia. Pero lo que Lottie no sabe es que alguien muy cercano esconde un oscuro secreto para el que no est preparada. Lograr atrapar al asesino antes de que haya ms vctimas.
Publisher: n/a
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9788417333850
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Pocket Book
Echoland
By Petterson, Per
Graywolf Press
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9781644450765
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Paperback
Minor Threats Volume 1
By Oswalt, Patton
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 Bros' most pulpy films, but set in a high concept world of heroes and villains."I was hooked from the first page!" - Taika WaititiIt's hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses, but the little guys, the career criminals. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to telephone poles before the hero swings off to face the actual big bad. Times are tough for costumed crooks ... and they're about to get much worse.
Dark Horse Books
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9781506729992
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Paperback
The Pieces We Keep
By Mcmorris, Kristina
"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. Eager for a fresh start, Audra plans to leave Portland for a new job in Philadelphia. Her seven-year-old son, Jack, seems apprehensive about flying--but it's just the beginning of an anxiety that grows to consume him. As Jack's fears continue to surface in recurring and violent nightmares, Audra hardly recognizes the introverted boy he has become. Desperate, she traces snippets of information unearthed in Jack's dreams, leading her to Sean Malloy, a struggling US Army veteran wounded in Afghanistan.
Thorndike Press Large Print
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9781432873332
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Large Print
Future tense
By Brosnan, John
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 and analyses of the greatest and most notorious films, among them "The Thing", " Invasion of the Body Snatchers", and "The Incredible Shrinking Man."
St. Martin's Press
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9780312314880
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Hardcover
Ek Aur Bisaat
By Singh, Omi
Publisher: n/a
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9789389600438
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Paperback
Remain Silent
By Steiner, Susie
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 review) Newly married and navigating life with a toddler as well as her adopted adolescent son, Fly Dent, Manon Bradshaw is happy to be working part-time in the cold cases department of the Cambridgeshire police force, a job which allows her to "potter in, coffee in hand and log on for a spot of internet shopping--precisely what she had in mind when she thought of work-life balance." But beneath the surface Manon is struggling with the day-to-day realities of what she assumed would be domestic bliss: fights about whose turn it is to clean the kitchen, the bewildering fatigue of having a young child in her forties, and the fact that she is going to couple's counseling alone because her husband feels it would just be her complaining.
Random House
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9780525509974
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Hardcover
It's So Magic
By Barry, Lynda
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, and it's got much more of the stories Maybonne's irrepressible younger sister, Marlys, writes and draws as well as some by their brother, Freddie. The boy's arrival to live with his sisters at Grandma Mullen's (he'd been with an aunt since his mother's breakdown) is one of the momentous happenings these four-panel strips record. Others are the brief return of Uncle John, whom the sisters adore even though he's gay; the night Maybonne's friend Cindy loses her virginity to the "new boys from the Catholic school"; reading Cindy's letters from a former boyfriend, a high-school dropout now in the army in Vietnam; being called back to live with Mom again and getting there on the bus; and when Maybonne returns to her old school, finding her old friend Brenda has been telling wild stories about her.
Palace of the Drowned
By Mangan, Christine
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 work, alongside a very public breakdown, Frankie retreats to her friend's vacant palazzo in Venice torecharge and get re-inspired.Then Gilly appears. A precocious young admirer eager to befriend her favorite author, Gilly seems determined to insinuate herself into Frankie's solitary life. But there's something about the young woman that gives Frankie pause, that makes her wonder just how much of what Gilly tells her is the truth. Set against the catastrophic 1966 flooding of Venice, the encounters between these two women will lead to a series of lies and revelations that will tragically disrupt both of their lives.
Something Read, Something Dead
By Gates, Eva
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) .
Las chicas robadas
By Gibney, Patricia
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 de la vctima Cuando el mismo obrero descubre otro cadver, Lottie deber trabajar da y noche para averiguar qu relacin guardan los crmenes. Y, mientras tanto, otras dos chicas desaparecen. La inspectora Parker est al lmite, perseguida por su trgico pasado y luchando por mantener unida a su propia familia. Pero lo que Lottie no sabe es que alguien muy cercano esconde un oscuro secreto para el que no est preparada. Lograr atrapar al asesino antes de que haya ms vctimas.
Echoland
By Petterson, Per
Minor Threats Volume 1
By Oswalt, Patton
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 Bros' most pulpy films, but set in a high concept world of heroes and villains."I was hooked from the first page!" - Taika WaititiIt's hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses, but the little guys, the career criminals. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to telephone poles before the hero swings off to face the actual big bad. Times are tough for costumed crooks ... and they're about to get much worse.
The Pieces We Keep
By Mcmorris, Kristina
"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. Eager for a fresh start, Audra plans to leave Portland for a new job in Philadelphia. Her seven-year-old son, Jack, seems apprehensive about flying--but it's just the beginning of an anxiety that grows to consume him. As Jack's fears continue to surface in recurring and violent nightmares, Audra hardly recognizes the introverted boy he has become. Desperate, she traces snippets of information unearthed in Jack's dreams, leading her to Sean Malloy, a struggling US Army veteran wounded in Afghanistan.
Future tense
By Brosnan, John
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 and analyses of the greatest and most notorious films, among them "The Thing", " Invasion of the Body Snatchers", and "The Incredible Shrinking Man."
Ek Aur Bisaat
By Singh, Omi
Remain Silent
By Steiner, Susie
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 review) Newly married and navigating life with a toddler as well as her adopted adolescent son, Fly Dent, Manon Bradshaw is happy to be working part-time in the cold cases department of the Cambridgeshire police force, a job which allows her to "potter in, coffee in hand and log on for a spot of internet shopping--precisely what she had in mind when she thought of work-life balance." But beneath the surface Manon is struggling with the day-to-day realities of what she assumed would be domestic bliss: fights about whose turn it is to clean the kitchen, the bewildering fatigue of having a young child in her forties, and the fact that she is going to couple's counseling alone because her husband feels it would just be her complaining.
It's So Magic
By Barry, Lynda
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, and it's got much more of the stories Maybonne's irrepressible younger sister, Marlys, writes and draws as well as some by their brother, Freddie. The boy's arrival to live with his sisters at Grandma Mullen's (he'd been with an aunt since his mother's breakdown) is one of the momentous happenings these four-panel strips record. Others are the brief return of Uncle John, whom the sisters adore even though he's gay; the night Maybonne's friend Cindy loses her virginity to the "new boys from the Catholic school"; reading Cindy's letters from a former boyfriend, a high-school dropout now in the army in Vietnam; being called back to live with Mom again and getting there on the bus; and when Maybonne returns to her old school, finding her old friend Brenda has been telling wild stories about her.