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Ghostroots: The most 'thrilling and disturbing' (Financial Times) literary horror of 2024  by 'Pemi Aguda

Ghostroots: The most 'thrilling and disturbing' (Financial Times) literary horror of 2024

'Pemi Aguda

An electrifying, terrifying collection of literary horror stories from a prize-winning young star of Nigerian writingA FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD, THE LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIONS YOUNG...

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The Wrong Bride: The Irresistible Arranged Marriage Romance (The Windsors Book 1)  by Catharina Maura

The Wrong Bride: The Irresistible Arranged Marriage Romance (The Windsors Book 1)

Catharina Maura

She's his fiancee's younger sister. He's the man she's always loved. She's his fiancee's younger sister. He's the man she's always loved. When her sister doesn't show up on her wedding day, Raven has no choice but to take her place - but marriage to Ares...

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Dept. of Speculation  by Jenny (Y). Offill

Dept. of Speculation

Jenny (Y). Offill

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life....

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The Hustler: From the author of The Queen's Gambit - now a major Netflix drama  by Walter Tevis

The Hustler: From the author of The Queen's Gambit - now a major Netflix drama

Walter Tevis

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT - NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX DRAMA'IF HEMINGWAY HAD THE PASSION FOR POOL THAT HE HAD FOR BULLFIGHTING, HIS HERO MIGHT HAVE BEEN EDDIE FELSON' TIMEThe novel that inspired the legendary Paul Newman film, The Hustler tells the story...

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Rendezvous With Rama  by Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Rendezvous With Rama

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all timeRama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological...

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Quills - Second Chances/The Duke's Runaway Bride/The Return Of Her Long-Lost Husband  by JenniJohnson Fletcher

Quills - Second Chances/The Duke's Runaway Bride/The Return Of Her Long-Lost Husband

JenniJohnson Fletcher

The Duke's Runaway Bride - Jenni FletcherFrom shopkeeper...to Duke's wife.When Beatrix, Duchess of Howden, writes to her estranged husband offering a divorce, she's stunned when he arrives on her doorstep with a different proposition: a six-week marriage...

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A Maverick Worth Waiting For/Stone Creek Sheriff  by StellaGreer Bagwell

A Maverick Worth Waiting For/Stone Creek Sheriff

StellaGreer Bagwell

A Maverick Worth Waiting For - Laurel GreerHolding out for a hero.Tenacity's favorite part-time bartender, rancher Mike Cooper, is known for giving great advice. Too bad his own love life has always been a trainwreck. Could charismatic cowboy Daniel Taylor be...

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Winter Prey  by John Sandford

Winter Prey

John Sandford

It's the dead of winter, and a killer like no other is turning a small Wisconsin town into a death trap-one that's closing in on Lucas Davenport.

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Judgment Prey  by John Sandford

Judgment Prey

John Sandford

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were...

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Righteous Prey  by John Sandford

Righteous Prey

John Sandford

Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in the latest in the beloved series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. "We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So...

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Santos Sisters Vol. 1  by Greg &. Fake

Santos Sisters Vol. 1

Greg &. Fake

Graphic novel

One day while combing the beach in their hometown of Las Brisas, the Santos Sisters discover a pair of beautiful medallions. What happens next changes their lives, forever. The medallions are imbued with the powers of a goddess, 'Madame Sosostris,' and can...

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Godzilla's 70th Anniversary  by JoelleStokoe Jones

Godzilla's 70th Anniversary

JoelleStokoe Jones

Graphic novel

An anthology of new and beloved Godzilla creators telling tales that get to the heart of Godzilla's lasting popularity! An anthology of new and beloved Godzilla creators telling tales that get to the heart of Godzilla's lasting popularity! Celebrating 70...

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Revolution in the Heart  by JonathanJane Anders Strahan

Revolution in the Heart

JonathanJane Anders Strahan

15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a...

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The Pelican Child: Stories  by Joy Williams

The Pelican Child: Stories

Joy Williams

A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss" (The Atlantic). "Night was best, for, as...

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Evensong  by Stewart O'Nan

Evensong

Stewart O'Nan

"Stewart O'Nan has been one of the best chroniclers of the lives of American women." - Susan StraightAn intimate, moving novel that follows The Humpty Dumpty Club, a group of women of a certain age who band together to help one another and their circle of...

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Our Precious Wars  by PerrineAnderson Tripier

Our Precious Wars

PerrineAnderson Tripier

An ode to memory, to home, and to the beauty of the natural world What remains of the springs, summers, autumns, and winters of a woman's life? Isadora, now an old woman relegated to a hospice, looks back on her life and how intimately intertwined it was with...

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Next Time Will Be Our Turn  by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Next Time Will Be Our Turn

Jesse Q. Sutanto

A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Izzy Chen is dreading her family's annual Chinese New Year celebration, where...

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Great Disasters  by Grady Chambers

Great Disasters

Grady Chambers

This is the story of how we became. I write those words but remain uncertain what they mean. . . . Drinking was a part of it. But as much as it was drinking, it was Ryan's love for Jana. And as much as it was Ryan's love for Jana, it was equally the war. In...

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To the Moon and Back  by Eliana Ramage

To the Moon and Back

Eliana Ramage

One young woman's relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family. My mother took my sister and me, and she drove...

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The Woman Dies  by AokoBarton Matsuda

The Woman Dies

AokoBarton Matsuda

Tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are In The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny subjects such as sexism, prejudice, the normalizing effect...

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The Silver Book  by Olivia Laing

The Silver Book

Olivia Laing

At once a queer love story and a noirish thriller, set in the dream factory of cinema, The Silver Book is a fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power....

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The Wax Child  by OlgaAitken Ravn

The Wax Child

OlgaAitken Ravn

Unlike anything you've read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set...

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The Mad Wife: A Novel  by Meagan Church

The Mad Wife: A Novel

Meagan Church

From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build-and the lies we live.They called it hysteria. She called it...

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Heap Earth Upon It  by Chloe Michelle. Howarth

Heap Earth Upon It

Chloe Michelle. Howarth

January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start.After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled...

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Muscle Man: A Novel  by Jordan Castro

Muscle Man: A Novel

Jordan Castro

A hilarious, suspenseful metaphysical thriller following a day in the life of an English professor who would rather be lifting weights from the author of the cult hit The Novelist Harold, a middling literature professor at a liberal arts college, lives in a...

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Poor Creatures  by Mairi Kidd

Poor Creatures

Mairi Kidd

She did not mean to But she has killed, and killed, and killed again. Dundee, 1812. Isabel Baxter awaits the arrival of Mary Godwin, a girl of precocious intellect and grand passions, sent north to cure an ailment no one understands. Nestled in woodland on...

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The Winter Bride  by Katie Flynn

The Winter Bride

Katie Flynn

The emotionally gripping new festive novel from Sunday Times bestseller Katie Flynn. As the threat of war draws closer, Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart, Rory. Their love for one another has never been stronger, but Isla struggles to ignore doubts...

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Driver  by MattiaHouis Filice

Driver

MattiaHouis Filice

A bracing novel of work, labor, and collective action, this vibrantly written debut is narrated by a man who runs a high-speed train in France-a story born out of the author's experience as a real-life train driver. Driver begins as a contemporary apprentice...

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Analog Days  by Damion Searls

Analog Days

Damion Searls

Acclaimed translator Damion Searls's exuberant debut novella navigates the bittersweet tug-of-war between nostalgia and living life meaningfully in a world buzzing with information overload. Analog Days is a snapshot of a circle of friends living through the...

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Jeeves Again: Twelve New Stories  by P.G.Skinner Wodehouse

Jeeves Again: Twelve New Stories

P.G.Skinner Wodehouse

FEATURING HUGE NAMES FROM LITERATURE, COMEDY AND BEYOND - INCLUDING RODDY DOYLE, FRANK SKINNER AND ALAN TITCHMARSH - THIS ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES REIMAGINES JEEVES AND WOOSTER THROUGH FRESH EYES. The irrepressible duo first appeared on the page in 1915, coming...

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A Wooded Shore: And Other Stories  by Thomas McGuane

A Wooded Shore: And Other Stories

Thomas McGuane

From the award-winning "master of the short story" (The New York Times Book Review)-nine shattering, hilarious tales of men on the outskirts of America, habituating the motels, hot dog stands, and dive bars time forgot, grappling with a world that is swiftly...

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Christmas at The Second Chance Supper Club  by Caroline Roberts

Christmas at The Second Chance Supper Club

Caroline Roberts

PRE-ORDER NOW Return to the Supper Club this Christmas...The snow-dusted Northumberland village of Tilldale comes alive with festive charm. Filled with twinkling lights, carol singers, and Cath's warm and welcoming supper club, it's the perfect setting for...

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Beings  by Ilana Masad

Beings

Ilana Masad

From the celebrated author of All My Mother's Lovers, a new novel based on true events asks whether extraterrestrial life might be what ties us to one another, to history, and to reality itself. "Ilana Masad is an exciting talent."-Garth Greenwell "Masad is a...

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Eye of the Monkey: A Novel  by KrisztinaMulzet Toth

Eye of the Monkey: A Novel

KrisztinaMulzet Toth

A doctor-patient love affair goes awry in this near-future dystopian novel, the first by the award winning Hungarian writer to be translated into English. "Like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this...

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Orlanda: A Novel  by JacquelineSchwartz Harpman

Orlanda: A Novel

JacquelineSchwartz Harpman

The groundbreaking novel about a woman whose subconscious mind splinters and finds itself in the body of a young man, from the author of I Who Have Never Known Men. Now in paperback with a new foreword by Isle McElroy for the 30th anniversary of its original...

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A Fictional Inquiry  by DanieleAppel Del Giudice

A Fictional Inquiry

DanieleAppel Del Giudice

"A metaphysical detective story and a modern Italian classic. A strange and ambiguous novel and a brilliant meditation on the mysteries that inform literature."-Mark Haber, author of Saint Sebastian's Abyssand Reinhardt's GardenThis haunting novel was...

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The Mind Reels  by Fredrik deBoer

The Mind Reels

Fredrik deBoer

In his debut novel, longtime observer of culture and politics Fredrik deBoer depicts mental illness in all its grim and ugly reality, free of our culture's endless romanticization of insanity. In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys...

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Palaver  by Bryan Washington

Palaver

Bryan Washington

A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He's entangled in a sexual relationship with a...

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Estate  by Cynthia Zarin

Estate

Cynthia Zarin

From the celebrated poet and author of the critically acclaimed novel Inverno comes a mesmerizing new novel, Estate. Caroline, separated from her husband, finds herself drawn to Lorenzo, who has not one but two other lovers. In these propulsive pages, Caroline...

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False War  by Carlos ManuelWimmer Alvarez

False War

Carlos ManuelWimmer Alvarez

An ambitious, panoptic novel about exile as both condition and state of being by a major young Cuban writer The characters in False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's...

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The Emergency  by George Packer

The Emergency

George Packer

George Packer's gripping fable of imperial collapse illuminates the crises of our times. George Packer's bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With The Emergency, he turns to fiction,...

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Sea Now  by EvaThompson Melo Meijer

Sea Now

EvaThompson Melo Meijer

A book on what happens when the delicate balance of nature tips in favor of the seaThe catastrophe that everyone knew was coming has arrived--the dykes are breached, the tideline rises a kilometer a day, and the citizens of the Netherlands are forced into gyms...

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The Long Shoe  by Bob Mortimer

The Long Shoe

Bob Mortimer

THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FOR 2025 BY 2 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER. Matt had been happily drifting through life - but recently, he lost his job as a bathroom salesman and the tenancy on his home is about to expire. To top it all off, he wakes up...

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The Salvage  by Anbara Salam

The Salvage

Anbara Salam

'The Salvage is a novel to keep you up all night. Anbara Salam is a master of suspense' Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder'A rich, gothic mystery, The Salvage has a moody, salt-drenched atmosphere, and layers of intrigue that span centuries....

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Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories  by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

"Melissa Lozada-Oliva writes with a perfect blend of intoxicating magic and unflinching humor, illuminating the visceral tensions of yearning and darkness that define our most human moments. A beautiful, sharp-tongued collection that feels like an instant...

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Archipelago  by Natalie Bakopoulos

Archipelago

Natalie Bakopoulos

Along the way to a translation writing residency on the Dalmatian coast, Archipelago's unnamed narrator has an unsettling, aggressive encounter with a man on a ferry, which sets off a series of strange events. At the residency, she reunites with Luka, an old...

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Fools for Love: Stories  by Helen Schulman

Fools for Love: Stories

Helen Schulman

A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection-featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes. The wide-ranging...

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The Winter Ball: A sweeping story of love and war from the bestselling author of the Buckingham hotel series  by Anton Du Beke

The Winter Ball: A sweeping story of love and war from the bestselling author of the Buckingham hotel series

Anton Du Beke

Don't miss the dazzling new novel from the nation's favourite entertainer - available to pre-order now! 'Heartbreaking, heartlifting and enchanting' CAROL KIRKWOOD 1942, London In the darkest times, hope lights the way... As the snow falls on Berkeley...

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A Shadow of Myself  by PeterPare Flamm

A Shadow of Myself

PeterPare Flamm

Hans, an esteemed surgeon, has just returned from the hellish battlefields of the First World War. But everything in his home feels alien-even his wife Grete. As he tries to regain a sense of normality, he is haunted by nightmarish visions and a profound sense...

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Ravishing  by Eshani Surya

Ravishing

Eshani Surya

A brilliant and compelling debut, Ravishing shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it capitalizes on our desire to be someone we are notA provocative, darkly surreal novel of two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of...

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Nymph: A Novel  by Stephanie LaCava

Nymph: A Novel

Stephanie LaCava

Not yet thirty, Bathory, or "Bat" to the few who know her well, has assembled a peculiar resume: model, sex worker, linguist, Latin scholar, and assassin. The last of these has been the family trade for generations. Growing up, Bat, her mother, and her father...

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After Midnight: Thirteen Chilling Tales for the Dark Hours  by DaphneKing du Maurier

After Midnight: Thirteen Chilling Tales for the Dark Hours

DaphneKing du Maurier

INTRODUCED BY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER STEPHEN KINGA STUNNING NEW HARDBACK COLLECTION OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S THIRTEEN DARKEST STORIES - INCLUDING 'THE BIRDS' AND 'DON'T LOOK NOW'Amid the reflections and twisting alleyways of Venice, a grieving couple are...

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The Marriage Contract  by Sasha Butler

The Marriage Contract

Sasha Butler

'Once she had thought of them, their love, as a fortress that nothing, not giants nor dragons nor men with fists and minds of gore could tear down. She realises now, that their love is malleable, mouldable, breakable. As soft as dreams.' Summer in...

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The Shawshank Redemption: On the 30th Anniversary of the iconic movie, one of the most popular in film history  by Stephen King

The Shawshank Redemption: On the 30th Anniversary of the iconic movie, one of the most popular in film history

Stephen King

This stand-alone edition of King's novella, retitled The Shawshank Redemption, like the film, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Best Picture Academy Award nominee. A mesmerising tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, The Shawshank Redemption is a...

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The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace: A Novel  by Megan Okonsky

The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace: A Novel

Megan Okonsky

Tombstone, Texas, has never seen anything like the barefoot travelers who barrel in one afternoon, looking like they just stepped out of the seventies. They appear right in the middle of Pinky Elizabeth Swear's eulogy for her beloved rescue cat, Sweet Potato...

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Patchwork  by Tom Comitta

Patchwork

Tom Comitta

Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary decoupage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp. To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an...

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Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island: A Carolina Tale  by Susan M. Boyer

Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island: A Carolina Tale

Susan M. Boyer

From the author of the best-selling Liz Talbot Mystery Series comes a novel about family and secrets, and the lengths we'll go to in order to protect both. Can this charming do-gooder carry the day? Charleston, SC. Hadley Cooper has a big heart. So when the...

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Other People's Fun  by Harriet Lane

Other People's Fun

Harriet Lane

'I look. I can't stop looking. That's the deal, isn't it? We all know that's how it works. If someone wants to be seen - and oh, how they want to be seen - then someone has to watch.'Ruth is alone, unnoticed and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter...

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The Long Night  by Christian White

The Long Night

Christian White

Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother and is now looking for love and a potential escape from her small hometown. When a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into a terrifying world. Jodie has been trying to forget...

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A Scrooge Mystery: The perfect festive whodunnit featuring Dickens' beloved miser, Ebenezer Scrooge  by Andreina Cordani

A Scrooge Mystery: The perfect festive whodunnit featuring Dickens' beloved miser, Ebenezer Scrooge

Andreina Cordani

When everyone's favourite reformed miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, errs from the path of goodness, he starts seeing spirits again - this time of a girl, whose murder he must solve if he is to avoid the dreaded vision of The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Ebenezer...

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Best Offer Wins  by Marisa Kashino

Best Offer Wins

Marisa Kashino

An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino's darkly hilarious debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success--and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your...

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Black as Death: Volume 5  by LiljaGarcia Sigurdardottir

Black as Death: Volume 5

LiljaGarcia Sigurdardottir

When the chief suspect in the disappearance of Arora's sister is found dead, and Arora's new financial investigation leads to the street where her sister was last seen, she is drawn into a shocking case that threatens everything ... The unmissable finale to...

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The Bone Mother: Volume 2  by Suzy Aspley

The Bone Mother: Volume 2

Suzy Aspley

When reporter Martha Strangeways is called into investigate the discovery of body parts on a remote railway track, she's drawn into a strange case, as her own past comes back to haunt her... The atmospheric, critically acclaimed series continues... Martha...

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The Winter Job  by AnttiHackston Tuomainen

The Winter Job

AnttiHackston Tuomainen

A darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love and death, The Winter Job flies a hundred and twenty kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night. Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker...

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Petty Lies  by SulmiLyo Bak

Petty Lies

SulmiLyo Bak

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN meets THE VEGETARIAN in this chilly and chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance. Mira is a desperate young woman, hired by a wealthy single mother to tutor her...

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The Italian Secret  by Tara Moss

The Italian Secret

Tara Moss

No.1 international bestselling author Tara Moss returns with an immersive post-war mystery as glamorous investigator Billie Walker follows a trail of secrets to Italy's sun-drenched Neapolitan coast. Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground...

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Murder, She Wrote: The Body in the Trees  by JessicaFarley Moran Fletcher

Murder, She Wrote: The Body in the Trees

JessicaFarley Moran Fletcher

It's leaf-peeping season in Cabot Cove, but for someone, it's killing season! A quartet of friends from Florida have come to Maine to experience a New England autumn, complete with hiking in the woods and fishing. When one of them goes missing, the town...

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Underspin: A Novel  by E. Y. Zhao

Underspin: A Novel

E. Y. Zhao

"E. Y. Zhao's Underspin is an eruption of a debut. This novel displays a wondrous ability that renders both the central sport and lives that weave around it with meticulous precision and tremendous heart. The beauty of sport, the spirit of desire and the...

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Gull & Bones  by Sally Goldenbaum

Gull & Bones

Sally Goldenbaum

The sugar maples are beginning to turn, and the seasonal visitors have closed up their cottages-one more summer has been thoroughly packed away. But the residents of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, have a celebration to look forward to, until a killer calls sudden...

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Robert B. Parker's Showdown  by Mike Lupica

Robert B. Parker's Showdown

Mike Lupica

Vic Hale is the biggest podcaster in the nation; he hates everybody, but is loved by millions. Susan and Hawk can't stand him but Spenser goes way back with Vic's father Tommy, and he believes it's all an act. So when Vic comes to Spenser for help, Spenser can...

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Murder at Donwell Abbey  by Vanessa Kelly

Murder at Donwell Abbey

Vanessa Kelly

This latest Regency-era mystery from USA Today bestselling author Vanessa Kelly finds Jane Austen's clever Emma Knightley (nee Woodhouse) as an amateur sleuth, navigating shocking changes in her family-while meeting her match in a deadly adversary . . . ...

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The Murder at World's End  by Ross Montgomery

The Murder at World's End

Ross Montgomery

From award-winning children's author Ross Montgomery comes the first in a gripping new crime series, where Downton Abbey meets Knives Out with a sprinkle of wickedness. Secrets, murder and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo - an under-butler and a...

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Blood Rival  by Jake Arnott

Blood Rival

Jake Arnott

Following the suspicious death of notorious underworld gangster, Lee Royal, his widow Jo and Eddie - the rival gangster Jo has been having an affair with - try to solve the murder. Following the suspicious death of notorious underworld gangster, Lee Royal,...

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The Boy on the Train  by Martin Goodman

The Boy on the Train

Martin Goodman

Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your familyTom's a regular teenager sullen, anxious, super-smart, feeling safe within his bedroom and wedded to his screen.On a packed train, a London commodities trader gets under his skin.The trader's got a fine wife,...

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The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency  by Michael Hogan

The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency

Michael Hogan

*PRE-ORDER NOW! A DELIGHTFULLY TWISTY NEW MURDER MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR COSY CRIME FANS AND DOG LOVERS EVERYWHERE* They've got a lot of leads...but can they collar a killer? When Charlie Boardman and his beloved Staffy, Ruby, stumble across a corpse in the...

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Murder at Mistletoe Manor  by F. L. Everett

Murder at Mistletoe Manor

F. L. Everett

'Tis the season for murder in this seasonal locked room mystery. Welcome to Mistletoe Manor Hotel. Four days before Christmas, twelve stranded strangers gather round a crackling fire... They are sheltering from the storm raging outside. But their relief is...

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Revenge, Served Royal: A Mystery  by Celeste Connally

Revenge, Served Royal: A Mystery

Celeste Connally

Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling third instalment to the captivating Regency-era Lady Petra Inquires mystery series. September, 1815. Autumn is in the air as Lady Petra Forsyth and some of the most illustrious members of the ton descend upon...

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The Devil in Oxford: A Ruby Vaughn Mystery  by Jess Armstrong

The Devil in Oxford: A Ruby Vaughn Mystery

Jess Armstrong

Jess Armstrong's USA Today bestselling and award-winning series is historical gothic murder mystery at its best, and Ruby Vaughn returns in The Devil in Oxford. If someone were to ask American heiress Ruby Vaughn how exactly the occult came to play such a...

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Natural Barn Killer  by Amanda Flower

Natural Barn Killer

Amanda Flower

The discovery of a long-buried skeleton on Shiloh's newly acquired family land brings up more than just worms... Murder on the farm? It's gravy for the gossip mill! Thanksgiving in Cherry Glen was supposed to be perfect for Shiloh Bellamy. With lingering...

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Cold Blooded Killer  by Alex Pine

Cold Blooded Killer

Alex Pine

'HELP! I am addicted to this series! Unputdownable' NetGalley reviewer ????? Snow is falling. Murder is calling. Pre-order the most gripping winter thriller of 2025!Journalist Gordon Carver has uncovered something terrifying in his investigation into a local...

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The Cat and the Christmas Kidnapper  by L. T. Shearer

The Cat and the Christmas Kidnapper

L. T. Shearer

'Conrad is a delight' S.J. Bennett Join Lulu Lewis, a retired detective with a knack for uncovering secrets, and Conrad, her extraordinary talking cat, as they take on their latest case. Hoping for a relaxing break, Lulu sets off with Conrad on her canal...

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The Women in the Shadows  by Harriet Fox

The Women in the Shadows

Harriet Fox

The world's most famous serial killer story, told from the perspective of a gang of women. PRE-ORDER NOW!He's always one step ahead. But they're coming for him. London, 1888. A monster prowls the gaslit streets, and the police are looking in all the wrong...

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The Sullivan's Island Supper Club: A Carolina Tale  by Susan M. Boyer

The Sullivan's Island Supper Club: A Carolina Tale

Susan M. Boyer

From the bestselling author of the award-winning novel Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island comes a captivating new tale that explores the deep ties of friendship, family, and community-and the hidden cracks that can fracture even our strongest connections....

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Happy Wife: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel  by MeredithShores Lavender

Happy Wife: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

MeredithShores Lavender

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill. "Happy Wife is...

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Not Another Bloody Christmas  by Jo Middleton

Not Another Bloody Christmas

Jo Middleton

PRAISE FOR HAPPY BLOODY CHRISTMAS: 'An outrageously funny, festive romp which is as utterly wonderful as it is (Christmas) crackers!' MIKE GAYLE When Anna decides to take her family away for Christmas to avoid a repeat of the 'dead man in the larder' debacle,...

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Quantum of Menace: The James Bond spin-off mystery series led by the Head of Q Branch himself, Major Boothroyd  by Vaseem Khan

Quantum of Menace: The James Bond spin-off mystery series led by the Head of Q Branch himself, Major Boothroyd

Vaseem Khan

Filled with wit and verve, Vaseem Khan brings his vibrant and dynamic style to this spin-off cosy crime series set in the world of James Bond. Charming, drily humorous, and intelligently crafted, Quantum of Menace, the first in the Q mystery books, will appeal...

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The Shadow of the Northern Lights: The brand new 2025 thriller in the million-copy bestselling, award-winning series  by Satu Raemoe

The Shadow of the Northern Lights: The brand new 2025 thriller in the million-copy bestselling, award-winning series

Satu Raemoe

THE THRILLING THIRD BOOK IN THE HILDUR SERIES - available for pre-order now! As Christmas comes to the west cost of Iceland, a corpse is found in a fish farming pond. Detective Hildur Runarsdottir and trainee Jakob Johanson barely have time to start their...

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Vultures  by Mark Dawson

Vultures

Mark Dawson

The vultures are circling. And this time, John Milton is the only one standing between them and their prey.The cryptocurrency scam was global. The victims were everywhere. But now, the men behind it are running out of places to hide.Milton never wanted to get...

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Dominion of Dust  by Matthew Harffy

Dominion of Dust

Matthew Harffy

Hunlaf voyages to the Holy Land in search of powerful relics but risks the wrath of mighty Byzantium. A rip-roaring Viking-era adventure from the author of the Bernicia Chronicles, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow. AD 797, Cyprus....

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Blood Oath: An Alex Martel Thriller  by Steve Urszenyi

Blood Oath: An Alex Martel Thriller

Steve Urszenyi

In this action-packed thriller, Special Agent Alex Martel's fight becomes personal when her father is abducted by rebel forces. In the heart of Africa, CIA Special Agent Alexandra Martel's safari with her father spirals into a deadly game of betrayal when he...

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Tom Clancy Executive Power  by BrianWilson Andrews

Tom Clancy Executive Power

BrianWilson Andrews

Jack Ryan returns in a blockbuster new novel of action, thrills and intrigue in the world created by master storytelling Tom Clancy.An international incident may fracture the Ryan family in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.Even in...

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The Lady and Her Butler Vol. 3

The Lady and Her Butler Vol. 3

Graphic novel

MIXED MESSAGES MIXED MESSAGES It's wedding season, and Sooha is reminded of why she stays so distant from others-except, inexplicably, Taesoo, who continues to go above and beyond as a housekeeper. But Taesoo has his own life to get back to, as Sooha...

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Jackson Alone  by JoseAlmony Ando

Jackson Alone

JoseAlmony Ando

Four Black Japanese gay men team up to exact revenge in a culture where discrimination is deep-seated. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage...

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The Mating Game  by Lana Ferguson

The Mating Game

Lana Ferguson

Contractor Tess Covington has spent her entire life as a regular non-shifter human, so after she lands in the Denver ER with flu-like symptoms, it comes as a complete shock to be told that, no, she's not sick - she's actually a late-presenting omega wolf...

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Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop: THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING HEALING SERIES  by MaiTaylor Mochizuki

Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop: THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING HEALING SERIES

MaiTaylor Mochizuki

THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING HEALING SERIES THAT FEELS LIKE A HUG What do you really want for Christmas? <h3> THE FULL MOON COFFEE SHOP HAS SOLD OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES ACROSS TWENTY LANGUAGES The Full Moon Coffee Shop normally appears on the night...

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Culpability  by Bruce Holsinger

Culpability

Bruce Holsinger

"A wise, propulsive, and deeply powerful novel."--Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me From the bestselling author of the "wise and addictive" (New York Times) The Gifted School comes a riveting family drama, set at a...

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Every One Still Here  by Liadan Ni Chuinn

Every One Still Here

Liadan Ni Chuinn

A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine's bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous...

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The Impossible Fortune  by Richard Osman

The Impossible Fortune

Richard Osman

Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It's been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still...

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Dead Girls Don't Talk  by Sandra J. Paul

Dead Girls Don't Talk

Sandra J. Paul

Two girls. One dead. One disappeared. Whose side of the story will you read first? Which one is the truth? Choose for yourself in this twisty novel of psychological suspense from TikTok sensation Sandra J. Paul.How could things have gone so wrong between Syl...

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