Week of April 2, 2018
From the acclaimed author ofย Her Every Fearย andย The Kind Worth Killingย comes a diabolically clever tale of obsession, revenge, and cold-blooded murderโa sly and brilliant guessing game of a novel in the vein of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Patricia Highsmith.
Harry Ackerson has always considered his stepmother Alice to be sexy and beautiful, in an “otherworldly” way. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years.
Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the police think itโs suicide. Devastated, Harry returns to his fatherโs home in Maine. There, he and Alice will help each other pick up of the pieces of their lives and uncover what happened to his father.
Shortly after he arrives, Harry meets a mysterious young woman named Grace McGowan. Though she claims to be new to the area, Harry begins to suspect that Grace may not be a complete stranger to his family. But she isnโt the only attractive woman taking an interest in Harry. The sensual Alice is also growing closer, coming on to him in an enticing, clearly sexual way.
Mesmerized by these two women, Harry finds himself falling deeper under their spell. Yet the closer he gets to them, the more isolated he feels, disoriented by a growing fear that both women are hiding dangerousโeven deadlyโsecrets . . . and that neither one is telling the truth.
Happily married to her college sweetheart, Poppy lived a blessed life with the husband of her dreams. Then everything changed. She is no longer a wife. She is no longer the envy of her single friends. Now, people look at her with pity as they whisper a single word behind her back.
Widow.
Years after her husbandโs tragic death, years of pain and sorrow and wishing for the life sheโll never get back, Poppy decides to finish Jamieโs birthday list. Sheโll do the things he wanted to most. Because maybe, just maybe, if she can complete his list, she can start to live again.
Poppy expects going through the birthday list will be hard. She expects it to hurt. But what she doesnโt expect is Cole. Could the man who delivered the news of her husbandโs death and shattered her heart be the one to help her put it back together again?
This is the thrilling and romantic sequel toย Defy the Starsย from theย New York Timesย bestselling author ofย Star Wars: Lost Starsย andย Bloodline.
A fugitive from his fate — On the run to avoid his depraved creator’s clutches, Abel believes he’s said good-bye to Noemi for the last time. After all, the entire universe stands between them…or so he thinks. When word reaches him of Noemi’s capture by the very person he’s trying to escape, Abel knows he must go to her, no matter the cost.
But capturing Noemi was only part of Burton Mansfield’s master plan. In a race against time, Abel and Noemi will come together once more to discover a secret that could save the known worlds, or destroy them all.
In this thrilling and romantic sequel toย Defy the Stars, bestselling author Claudia Gray asks us all to consider where–and with whom–we truly belong.
The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sisterโs voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liarโand in trouble, again. Lexie has always bailed Annie out, given her money, a place to sleep, sent her to every kind of rehab. But this time, sheโs not just strung outโsheโs pregnant and in premature labor. If she goes to the hospital, sheโll lose custody of her babyโmaybe even go to prison. But the alternative is unthinkable.
As the weeks unfold, Lexie finds herself caring for her fragile newborn niece while her carefully ordered life is collapsing around her. Sheโs in danger of losing her job, and her fiancรฉ only has so much patience for Annieโs drama. In court-ordered rehab, Annie attempts to halt her downward spiral by confronting long-buried secrets from the sistersโ childhoods, ghosts that Lexie doesnโt want to face. But will the journey heal Annie, or lead her down a darker path?
Both candid and compassionate,ย Before I Let You Goย explores a hotly divisive topic and asks how far the ties of family love can be stretched before they finally break.
Fromย New York Timesย bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima comes the third gripping adventure in the Shattered Realms series, whereย intricately interwoven storylines converge as the warring Seven Realms struggle to unite against a horrific tyrant.
Vagabond seafarer Evan Strangward can move wind, waves, and weather, but his magical abilities canโt protect him forever from the brutal Empress Celestine. As Celestineโs relentless bloodsworn armies grow, Evan travels to the Fells to warn the queendom that an invasion is imminent.
If he canโt convince the Gray Wolf queen to take a stand, he knows that the Seven Realms will fall, and his last sanctuary will be destroyed. Among the dead will be the one person Evan canโt stand to lose.
Meanwhile, the queenโs formidable daughter, Princess Alyssa anaโRaisa, is already a prisoner aboard the empressโs ship, sailing east. Lyss may be the last remaining hope of bringing down the empress from within her own tightly controlled stronghold.
On the night of her high school graduation, Vale McKinley and her boyfriend Crawford are in a terrible car accident that leaves Crawford in a coma. They were supposed to spend the summer planning for college, for a bright future full of possibility. Together. Instead, Vale spends long days in the hospital, hoping Crawford will awaken.
Slate Allen, a college friend of Valeโs brother, has been visiting his dying uncle at the same hospital. When he and Vale meet, she canโt deny the flutter of an illicit attraction. She tries to ignore her feelings, but she’s not immune to Slate’s charm. Slowly, they form a cautious friendship.
Then, Crawford wakes up . . . with no memory of Vale or their relationship. Heartbroken, Vale opts to leave for college and move on with her life. Except now, sheโs in Slateโs territory, and their story is about to take a very strange turn.
Everly wasnโt excited over her impending meeting with the enigmatic Prince Sage. Being one of only four women from whom the Prince gets to choose in marriage was never something she valued. Her goal was to politely and elegantly remove herself from a forced wedding due to long standing traditions. Handsome Prince or not, she wonโt marry for anything but love.
Once Sage proceeds to the next candidate, Everly finally feels she can move forward with her life. On her own terms. That is, until she receives a mysterious request, asking her to solve a riddle, taking her on a night sheโll never forget.
A fervent adventure ensues, and attraction builds as the excitement of the night unfolds. Sparks fly in more ways than one just as she finds out whoโs stealing her heart.
โWhat do you do when you meet your soul mate? No waitโฆthatโs too easy. What do you do when you meet your soul mate and have to spend a lifetime loving him in secret?
Iโll tell you what you do.
You lie.โ
REN
Ren was eight when he learned that love doesnโt existโthat the one person who was supposed to adore him only cared how much he was worth.
His mother sold him and for two years, he lived in terror.
But thenโฆhe ran.
He thought heโd run on his own. Turned out, he took something of theirs by accident and it became the one thing he never wanted and the only thing he ever needed.
DELLA
I was young when I fell in love with him, when he switched from my world to my everything.
My parents bought him for cheap labour, just like they had with many other kids, and he had the scars to prove it.
At the start, he hated me, and I could understand why.
For years he was my worst enemy, fiercest protector, and dearest friend.
But by the endโฆhe loved me.
The only problem was, he loved me in an entirely different way to the way I loved him.
And slowly, my secret drove us apart.
My name is Honor, but I have none to speak of. Iโm a high-society princess on the verge of ending it all. I have nothing to show for my life, though my bank account would say otherwise. Money and status has controlled every ounce of my world and I want no part of it. Itโs what took away the most important person in my life. Heโs gone and Iโm alone, and no one is here to save me. Pain is the only pleasure I can feel anymore.
To find a healthier avenue to deal with my grief, I turned to Lotus House Yoga for salvationโand found it in the tall, dark, and brutally attractive Nicholas Salerno. Heโs everything Iโm not. Lives every day to the fullest, loves his family, and goes after what he wants with a thrust thatโs unmatched. I canโt help but be swept up in his beauty as he attempts to show me the light and reawaken my desires. Except Nick doesnโt know what Iโve hidden, and Iโm afraid heโll despise what he findsโฆwhen my sins are no longer silent.
Can you hide a secret with the whole world watching?
When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered.
A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. Instead, she stood on the street and witnessed it going down, with her husband and best friend inside. Kate, now living thousands of miles away, fled the disaster and is hoping that her past wonโt catch up with her. And Franny, a young woman in search of her birth mother, watched the horror unfold on the morning news, knowing that the woman she was so desperate to reconnect with was in the building.
Now, despite the marks left by the tragedy, they all seem safe. But as its anniversary dominates the media, the memories of that terrifying morning become dangerous triggers. All these women are guarding important secrets. Just how far will they go to keep them?
From theย New York Times-bestselling author ofย The Interestings, an electric, multilayered novel about ambition, power, friendship, and mentorship, and the romantic ideals we all follow deep into adulthood, not just about who we want to be with, but who we want toย be.
To be admired by someone we admire – we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world.
Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place- feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined.
Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart,ย The Female Persuasionย is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It’s a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light.
At thirty-five, Abigail Simmons has mastered only one thingโrunning. When tragedy strikes, she runs. This time her urge to flee brings Abi back to her hometown, where she hopes she can find the peace sheโs always searched for. That hope is dashed when Abiโs ex, Sam Forrester, bumps his way back into her life.
Sam has flourished in ways Abi hasnโt. From the outside, he has it allโa successful medical practice, a beautiful daughter, and a charming wife.
Who is dying.
Sara Forrester is dying and her final wish is for Sam to find love again so she can meet the woman who will finish raising her daughter and grow old with her husband. Abi seems like the perfect fit, but what Sara doesnโt know is that Abi has a secret, a secret no one could guess.
And itโs a deal breaker.
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