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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. From the author of The Blondes comes a twisted, darkly humorous story about a woman?s attempted murder, her lost memories, and the old friends who try to put her back together?or finish her off for good.When Mia Sinclair-Kroner wakes from a coma, all she can remember are the movies she?s known and loved. Her college friends quickly assemble for a weekend party, in an effort to help her remember. But with old friends come old wounds, and it soon becomes clear that Mia?s accident might not have been an accident at all.Was it Agnes, driven by her unspoken resentments? Or Zoey, who covets everything Mia has? Have the years apart only fanned the extinguished flame between Ethan and Mia, compelling him to violence? Or did Victor, who moved away, return with an agenda? Or was it Martin, the wealthy husband, who put a country estate between Mia and her past?As old tensions and new suspicions rise, these friends must wade through their film knowledge, shared history, and everything that?s kept them apart in order to figure out which one of them is trying to end things once and for all.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. A youth group?s temple road trip through India is a liberating escape for a former mean girl and sunshine boy to explore their past and their feelings for each other in the much-anticipated novel about self-discovery by the award-winning author of My So-Called Bollywood Life.Born and raised in the US, Tara Bajaj hides her family secrets. With beautiful clothes, a popular social media presence, and a spot on the Rutgers High Bollywood dance team, she does it well?until her carefully cultivated image shatters. Shut out by friends and with her future in flux, Tara accepts a guide position for a youth group?s temple tour through North India. Rediscovering the heart of her ancestry is as good a place as any to start over.Silas D?Souza-Gupta is an aspiring photojournalist retracing the journey his two mothers took when they fell in love. The last thing he expects on this road trip through his roots is a girl with a history of her own. As Tara and Silas embark on the trip to remote pilgrimage sites from Punjab through the Himalayas, they each discover what it means to be a child in the Indian diaspora, the significance of karma, and the healing power of love.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. Paul Bennett had the perfect wife, the perfect family, the perfect life?until one fateful Christmas brought an unthinkable tragedy. In deep despair, he turns to drinking to drive away the pain, but he only succeeds in driving away his wife. His marriage shattered, his family gone, Paul now despises Christmas.But can the holiday he so detests hold a miraculous surprise? After an accident in which he loses consciousness, he wakes up in the company of the shepherds who will soon travel to Bethlehem to see the newborn Christ in the manger. Can Paul find salvation on the night that forever changed the world? Can he discover the true spirit of Christmas.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. A woman vanishes from a Texas town. Did she simply run off, or is something darker at play?When Patrick Dielman shows up at Detective Jo Larsen?s desk insisting that his wife, Jenny, is missing, Jo wonders if it?s a case of a bored housewife running away.But as she digs deeper into Jenny?s life, Jo learns that Dielman keeps a stranglehold on the family finances, down to the last nickel, and that Jenny?s first marriage dissolved following the death of her young son. By all accounts?including her doctor?s?she never recovered from the loss. Between a controlling husband, a tragic past, and a callous ex-husband, Jo can?t be sure if she should suspect foul play or accept that the woman may have wanted to disappear.For Jo, whose own demons are shadowing her every step, finding Jenny becomes more than the typical protect-and-serve.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. Minna, an appealing rabbit character, comes up with a great Valentine's Day project which involves enlisting her little brother to do kind things for their neighbors.

Paperback. Etat : Good. For Holly Marshall, there?s no such thing as a perfect match. That?s reflected in the unpredictable, fun clothing combos the aspiring artist wears around her hometown of Sugar Springs?and in her inability to fit in anywhere else. But when she sets out to prove to her family that she?s ready to grow up by settling down, could she have found her perfect mismatch in a play-by-the-book guy wearing a business suit? High-powered attorney Zack Winston is a man who always gets what he wants. While Holly wouldn?t mind sampling what Zack so deliciously has to offer, she needs someone who plans to stick around?and Zack?s disdain of small towns suggests he won?t. But as the camaraderie of Sugar Springs begins to charm, and Zack?s brothers show what family is all about, he and Holly may just get the chance to have it all?if they?re brave enough to reach out and take it.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. Sofia is trained in secret as a painter in her father?s workshop during a time when women did not paint openly. She loves her work, but her restless spirit leads her to betray her extraordinary gifts to marry a man who comes to despise her for not producing a son.After Sofia?s father is crushed by his own fresco during an attack motivated by a vendetta, Sofia realizes she must escape her loveless marriage. She flees to Siena, where, disguised as a boy, she paints again. When her work attracts the notice of a nobleman who discovers the woman under the dirty smock, Sofia is faced with a choice that nearly destroys her.Meticulously researched settings and compelling characters are united with a strong heroine in this rich portrait of medieval Italy.Revised edition: This edition of The Towers of Tuscany includes editorial revisions.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense.On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she?s been found murdered on a Coney Island beach.Joe throws himself into his work, struggling to reconcile his memories of Lois with the relative stranger found by the NYPD. And when another murder hits close to home and DNA links Joe to both crimes, he sinks deeper into the abyss. Joe can?t remember a thing. His last hope as the evidence mounts against him is Aideen Bradigan, a brilliant and dogged lawyer from his past.It will take Aideen?s drive and Joe?s own shrewd legal mind to uncover a potentially terrifying truth?and to shatter the devastating secrets that claw back to that fateful night in the dark.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. When you're fighting an injustice, can it be wrong to do what's right?Inspired by the scandalous true story that shocked a nation at the close of WWI.With America's entry into World War I, the population of Newport, Rhode Island, seems to double overnight as twenty-five thousand rowdy recruits descend on the Naval Training Station. Drinking, prostitution, and other depravities follow the sailors, transforming the upscale town into what many residents?including young lawyer William Bartlett, whose genteel family has lived in Newport for generations?consider to be a moral cesspool.When sailors accuse a beloved local clergyman of sexual impropriety, William feels compelled to fight back. He agrees to defend the minister against the shocking allegations, in the face of dire personal and professional consequences. But when the trial grows increasingly sensational, and when outrageous revelations echo all the way from Newport to the federal government, William must confront more than just the truth?he must confront the very nature of good and evil.Certainty recalls a war-torn era when the line between right and wrong became dangerously blurred.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. A Word Award winner. It?s 1939, and Canada is on the cusp of entering World War II. Seventeen-year-old farm girl Cornelia has been heartbroken since the day her mother died five years ago. As a new tragedy provides Cornelia still more reason to reject her parent?s faith, a mysterious visitor appears in her hour of desperation. Alone and carrying a heavy secret, she makes a desperate choice that will haunt her for years to come. Never telling a soul, Cornelia pours out the painful events of the war in her diary. Many decades later, Cornelia?s granddaughter, Benita, is in the midst of her own crisis, experiencing several losses in the same week, including the grandmother she adored. The resulting emotional and financial stress takes its toll on her and her husband, Ken, who is unemployed. On the brink of divorce, she discovers Cornelia?s diary. Now the secrets of her grandmother?s past will lead Benita on an unexpected journey of healing, reunion, and faith.…

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Hardback. Etat : Good. Frankie Stein looks nothing like his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stein, or the spooky-looking kids at Miss Wart's Academy for Ghouls & Goblins. His clean-cut looks make it hard for him to make friends. But Frankie knows a thing or two about being scary. He can make grotesque faces, paint bone-chilling pictures, and yelp as loud as a coyote. When he experiments with potions in the classroom and grows two fangs, he wins over the other kids, showing that popularity depends on more than how you look. Once again, Frankie Stein proves that he's happiest when he's true to himself. Kevan Atteberry's digital illustrations lend a hand to this back-to-school spook-tacular story. Atteberry, Kevan J. (illustrateur). …

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Paperback. Etat : Good. In a country that keeps secrets and buries sins, a stranger learns the price of both. In the remote Andean village of Colibrí, a boy discovers what appears to be the body of an angel. But in the face and wounds of the dead, winged woman, Dr. Gregory Moreno sees something even more disturbing: an uncanny resemblance to his beloved late wife that cannot be mere chance. And in American anthropologist Sophie Lawson, still more echoes of the doctor?s lost love stir?igniting the superstitions of the townspeople, and an elusive killer?s deepest desires and despair. When Sophie vanishes, her son and Dr. Moreno must navigate the streets, politics, and mysteries of a place where tortured ghosts and strange omens exist side by side with mortals both devout and corrupt. But they may need nothing less than a miracle to save her from sacrifice at the altar of a madman?s twisted passion. Conjuring shades of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, or even Neil Gaiman, Grave of Hummingbirds is a mesmerizing novel of dreams and demons, beauty and blood.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. For four young women abroad in Paris, a game of Truth or Dare turns life-and-death.?I had a secret: I wanted to leave the earth in a spectacular fashion. Specifically, by leaping from the Eiffel Tower.? So begins this provocative coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl bent on self-destruction and revenge, set in the City of Light.It?s the summer of 1999, the end of a millennium. In the mind of Nessa Baxter, a girl from rural Illinois, Paris is the remedy for all of her woes. The death of her beloved brother and the betrayal by her classmate Kat has left Nessa bereft and doubtful about her future. She plans to exact revenge on Kat during their renegade French Club trip. Along with classmates Whitney and Kiran, the four girls embark on a series of misadventures in Paris. As part of her plan, Nessa starts a game of Truth or Dare that spirals out of control.A suspenseful psychological drama, Midair is the story of a young girl?s descent into darkness and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. The dawn of postwar Paris in the 1940s: for one family, it?s a time of celebration, danger, and liberating romance in a breathtaking novel by the author of The Daughter of Union County. Paris in 1944 is emerging from a devastating war. So are proud Martinican immigrants Marie-Thérèse Brillard and her two children, Collette and Christophe. In their vibrant neighborhood of Montmartre?a multicultural haven for artists, musicians, and writers?Collette and Christophe long for romance and excitement. As they?re swept up in the jubilation following the Nazis? departure, they embark on love affairs that are the stuff of impossible dreams?forbidden, too, in the eyes of their vigilant and apprehensive mother. Christophe stumbles into the arms of an irresistible woman who harbors a secret that could change both their fates. Collette has a defiant passion for a white Frenchman. Even Marie-Thérèse?s attraction to a handsome black soldier is not without its risks. For each of them, love could be a new beginning?or it could cost them everything.…

Hardback. Etat : Good. Aiden Nomura likes to open doors, especially using his skills as a hacker to see what?s hidden inside. He just keeps pulling until one cracks open, exposing the flaws. It?s like a game until it isn?t. When a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic opens in Bern, Switzerland, near Aiden?s boarding school, he knows things are changing. Shortly after, bombs go off within quiet, safe Bern. Then Aiden learns that his cousin Winter has had a mental breakdown. He returns to the US immediately. But back home in Hamilton, Winter?s mental state isn?t the only thing that?s different. The city is becoming even stricter, and an underground movement is growing. Aiden slowly cracks open doors in this new world. But behind those doors are things Aiden doesn?t want to see?things about his society, his city, even his own family. Aiden may be the only one who can fix things before someone else gets hurt.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. Nominated for the PEN USA/West Fiction Prize. Failing Paris is the story of a week in the life of Sabine Wilcox, the 19-year-old student who has left the stifling rural existence of the American Southwest in exchange for a year in Paris. But the City of Light offers her no refuge. With only one week to address a dire problem, Sabine?s past and present painfully collide. Her life intertwines with two men who prove to be both more, and less, than they first appeared. This is a first novel by a writer whose work must not be overlooked.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. From the author of The Unkillable Kitty O?Kane comes a gripping novel about finding the American Dream?and what it costs. In 1913, Sarah Levine leaves her small village and sails to New York to start a promising new life with her husband, Micha. But all Sarah really wants is what has come so easily to her sisters?a family of her own. Finally, in her new home, her dream comes true?but at a terrible cost. She names the baby girl Liberty after the great statue in the harbor that she saw when she first came to America. From struggling to raise Liberty in a Lower East Side tenement to building a fashion empire, the only constants in Sarah?s life are her love for her daughter and the terrible secret that she must keep. Sarah gives Liberty everything she has, but the truth cannot stay hidden forever. As Liberty grows to womanhood and the world prepares to go to war again, Sarah is asked to make one last impossible choice.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. Returning home to the Scottish Highlands after battling the English, Tayg Munro receives a hero?s welcome?and a shocking ultimatum. In order to take his place as heir to the chiefdom of Culrain, he must choose a wife within the month or have one chosen for him. Angered by his family?s decree, Tayg delays the inevitable by volunteering for a mission for the king that takes him deep into the Highlands. Preoccupied by his marital obligation, the brooding warrior sets out with no hint of the fateful encounter that awaits him? Catriona MacLeod is known throughout the Highlands as the Shrew of Assynt, thanks to her razor-sharp tongue and her unwillingness to yield to her five brothers. When she?s told that her eldest brother has promised her hand in marriage to a man she has good reason to hate, she flees into the Scottish wilderness, determined to seek the king?s intervention in her plight. When she reluctantly joins forces with a handsome traveler, she cannot anticipate the treacherous plot that will soon embroil them?nor the passion that will ignite between them.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. Waverly Bryson?s life is officially perfect: She?s engaged to her gorgeous boyfriend, Jake; her Honey on Your Mind TV segment is more popular than ever; and Waverly?s Honey Shop is growing by leaps and bounds. What could possibly go wrong? For starters?everything.This is Waverly, after all, and drama follows her wherever she goes. Why should her trip down the aisle be any different? Now, before she can marry the man of her dreams, she?ll have to go head-to-head with his high-society mother, whose vision for their wedding isn?t exactly meshing with Waverly?s. Adding to the chaos is the impending departure of Paige, Waverly?s very pregnant retail partner; the arrival of her suddenly secretive best friend, Andie; and the meddling of a new TV producer who?s promising to ?shake things up.? Suddenly Waverly?s perfect life feels like it?s about to come crashing down?unless the irrepressible Miss Bryson can prove to the world?and to herself?that she really can have it all.…

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Two moms as opposite as a Happy Meal and a quinoa bowl. What a difference a week makes in a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud novel by the Washington Post bestselling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler. Celeste Mason is the Pinterest stay-at-home supermom of other mothers? nightmares. Despite her all-organic, SunButter-loving, free-range kids, her immaculate home, and her volunteering awards, she still has time to relax with a nice glass of pinot at the end of the day. The only thing that ruins it all is her workaholic, career-obsessed neighbor, who makes no secret of what she thinks of Celeste?s life choices every chance she gets. Wendy Charles is a celebrated productivity consultant, columnist, and speaker. On a minute-by-minute schedule, she makes the working-mom hustle look easy. She even spends at least one waking hour a day with her kids. She?s not apologizing for a thing. Especially to Celeste, who plays her superior parenting against Wendy whenever she can. Who do Celeste and Wendy think they are? They?re about to find out thanks to one freaky week. After a neighborhood potluck and too much sangria, they wake up?um, what??in each other?s bodies. Everything Celeste and Wendy thought they knew about the ?other kind of mom? is flipped upside down?along with their messy, complicated, maybe not so different lives. …

Hardback. Etat : Good. From the award-winning author of The Friendship comes a shattering, brilliantly inventive novel based on the volatile true love story of literary icons Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. Her death was the culmination of a brief, brilliant life lived in the shadow of clinical depression?a condition exacerbated by her tempestuous relationship with mercurial poet Ted Hughes. The ensuing years saw Plath rise to martyr status while Hughes was cast as the cause of her suicide, his infidelity at the heart of her demise. For decades, Hughes never bore witness to the truth of their marriage?one buried beneath a mudslide of apocryphal stories, gossip, sensationalism, and myth. Until now. In this mesmerizing fictional work, Connie Palmen tells his side of the story, previously untold, delivered in Ted Hughes?s own uncompromising voice. A brutal and lyrical confessional, Your Story, My Story paints an indelible picture of their seven-year relationship?the soaring highs and profound lows of star-crossed soul mates bedeviled by their personal demons. It will forever change the way we think about these two literary icons.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. Chloe Benson wakes up kidnapped and bound in an underground tomb with no memory of how she got there.She manages to escape but no one believes her story?not the police, not the doctors, and especially not her husband, Liam.When she suspects Liam is lying to her, Chloe is forced to retrace her past, following in her own footsteps to find the truth and stay alive. But who is following Chloe?Look behind you. You never know who's out there.#1 UK Kindle BestsellerRevised edition: This edition of Look Behind You includes editorial revisions.…

Hardback. Etat : Good. From the acclaimed author of In Your Hands comes a heartrending novel about the struggle to hold on to what you?ve lost, and knowing when it?s time to let go. In this keenly observant dissection of a love affair in limbo, award-winning author Inês Pedrosa masterfully draws readers into the feverish, unsparing dual confessions of a man and a woman who are finally baring their hearts, souls, fury, and grief over a relationship that was abruptly shattered and never forgotten. Until now, there was so much between them left unspoken. With each new unguarded, darkly funny, and emotional disclosure, they?re brought back together?though impossibly so. Through the intimate voices of these unforgettable narrators unfolds a remarkable love story of regret and reconciliation, of loss and wrenching truths, told across lines few have ever considered crossing. Praised by the New York Times for the ?incantatory prose . . . absorbing in its history, as well as in its family dynamics? of her multigenerational saga In Your Hands, Pedrosa casts a seductive new spell with Still I Miss You, her second novel to be translated into English.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. A mysterious ?fear disease? is scaring to death the citizens of Longzhou, China. Literally. Victims go insane or die frozen in terror, while survivors rant maniacally about demons infiltrating the city. But what?s really behind the sudden epidemic? To find the answer, Chief Inspector Luo Fei teams up with a controversial historian and a brilliant psychologist to track down the true source of the illness and halt the wave of horror that threatens the metropolis.As the trio ventures to the primitive jungles and mountains of Yunnan, they?re haunted by tales of a seventeenth-century general whose demonic soul, said to have been sealed away in a vial of his blood, has been unleashed on the modern world. Now, trekking deep into the legendary Valley of Terror, they find themselves being stalked by someone?or something?daring them to uncover the truth. And as superstition, science, and history collide, their discovery could be as heart-stopping as fear itself.…

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Anything can happen at Gorilla Garage. It?s where gorillas do the fixing. It?s where orangutans do the pumping. It?s where grease monkeys do the odd jobs. And it?s where chimpanzees make you feel right at home. Let the magical monkeyshines at Gorilla Garage pick you up, fix you up, and send you off with your motor humming. You?ll be moving at top speed in no time. Playful illustrations by Vincent Nguyen lend a hand in a story that?s all monkey business. What a gas. Nguyen, Vincent (illustrateur). …

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. A passionate musician growing up in the war-torn streets of Kabul takes her forbidden talents abroad in this triumphant memoir from debut author Zarifa Adiba.As an Afghan girl, Zarifa Adiba has big, unfathomable dreams. Her family is poor, her country mired in conflict. Walking to school in Kabul, Zarifa has to navigate suicide bombers.But Zarifa perseveres, nurturing her passion for music despite its ?sinful? nature under Taliban law. At sixteen she gains admission to the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, and at eighteen she becomes the lead violist, co-conductor, and spokesperson for Zohra, the first all-female orchestra in the Muslim world.Despite Zarifa?s accomplishments?which include a stunning performance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland?her future in music demands a reckoning with her life back home. Many of the girls in Zohra are forced to marry, but Zarifa yearns to study, travel, and explore her independence. Her so-called ?bad girl? identity puts her at odds with her culture and her family.Playing for Freedom is the deeply compelling story of a woman who dares to compose a masterpiece even with all odds stacked against her. …

Paperback. Etat : Good. As war rages between Venice and Turkey, Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, is determined to lead his men to victory with his trusted ensign, Iago. But, after being passed up for a promotion, Iago has plans of his own. Using the general?s wife, Desdemona, as a pawn, Iago spins an elaborate web of deception. Once he has Othello where he wants him, revenge will be his.One of Shakespeare?s most performed tragedies, Othello?s themes of racism, revenge, and betrayal continue to resonate, as does its most tantalizing and arguable question: What makes Iago so unconscionably evil?Revised edition: Previously published as Othello, this edition of Othello (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.…