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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * John Grisham takes you back to Camino Island where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise. In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island,
"The best Paula Hawkins yet?by a tense and haunting mile."?Lee Child "An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller... truly exceptional."?Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods "A masterful exploration of the nature of obsession...I loved it."?Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek The propulsive and powerful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Welcome to Eris: an island with
A mesmerizing novel of two sisters whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor?a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth An Oprah Daily, CNN, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year ?Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer.?Ann Patchett ?Beautiful and haunting . . . this is brilliant.?Publishers Weekly (starred review) They were sist
Stephanie Garber's The Ballad of Never After is the fiercely-anticipated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Once Upon a Broken Heart, starring Evangeline Fox and the Prince of Hearts on a new journey of magic, mystery, and heartbreak. Not every love is meant to be. After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Now that shes discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that J
"A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart.?Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The New Couple in 5B Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. Theres been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to "write a history of the world without leaving home." The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedro
"Blood-soaked, heart-wrenching, grim and glorious.?Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black SheepFrom CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel. American Gods meets The Last of Us in this epic and sweeping story about the end of the world as we know it.A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while
A visceral and heartbreaking work of gothic horror about small-town mysteries, local folklore, and the things we leave behind when were gone, from the Bram Stoker Award?winning author of Queen of Teeth.What really happened to Cabrina Brite?Ivorys life changes irrevocably when she discovers the body of Cabrina Brite on the sands of Cape Morning, along with a mysterious poem. How did she die, and why does it seem she was trying to swim to Ghost Cat Island, the center of so many local mysteries?Des
Flannery O'Connor's haunting and classic first novel is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.
Naked Lunch helped redefine not just literature but American culture for the twentieth century. This restored version includes Burroughs's notes, several essays he wrote about the book, and alternate drafts from the original manuscript.
Gabriel Utterson is intrigued by the sinister figure of Mr Hyde, and the latter's strange relationship with Utterson's good friend, Dr Jekyll. When Mr Hyde beats a Member of Parliament to death, Gabriel Utterson tries to get to the bottom of the mystery and eventually discovers Dr Jekyll's dark secret.
An unforgettable story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will captivate listeners of all ages with its vivid recreation of the history, the people, and the language of the nineteenth-century American South.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies, and - by way of the Snake and Columbia rivers - down to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, endured incredible hardships and witnessed astounding sights. With great perseverance, they worked their way into an unexplored West. When they returned two years later, they had long since been given up for dead.
William Kent Krueger?a master storyteller at the top of his game? (Kristin Hannah)?returns with a breathtaking new novel in his New York Timesbestselling Cork OConnor series. After the teenage daughter of a prominent Minnesota politician goes missing, a huge manhunt is launched to find her. But when Cork OConnors grandson Waaboo stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman while hunting blueberries, nobody seems to care. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Oj
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Attachments comes Slow Dance?a bright, beaming power ballad of a novel about a love so true it refuses to be forgotten. ?Sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic ? Jane Austens Persuasion for our times.? ? Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary. They were just friends. Best
After the ?insanely readable? (Stephen King) and ?perfectly told? (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times bestseller The Plot comes Jean Hanff Korelitzs equally captivating new novel: The Sequel. Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, shes taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. Now she is living the contented life of a literary widow, enjoying her husbands royalty ch
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series?an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. The first installment in Neal Stephensons Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russia
?Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers ? a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award?winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary peoples lives. History is a flood. The mighty red . . . In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her futur
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell?and the ones we dont?shape our realities. ?[Coates] is intellectually fearless . . . unshackled by political or racial ideology, humane in his judgments, respectful of facts, acutely aware of the difference between what is knowable and what is not.?The New Yorker Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of