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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Today's Athens is a city of contradictions and complexity--it is grand and scruffy, ancient and modern, full of strivers, refugees and old-timers--and nowhere more so than the neighborhood of Plaka, where the Parthenon looms overhead and two women grapple with what is right and what is true, and how to live your life when you are running out of time. Searching for connection to her parents' heritage, Greek-American Anna works at an Athens gallery...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone believes Adam to be something he's not. Sometimes that's because he's told them a story. Sometimes he's told himself one. But when Adam joins an Alaskan fishing crew that's promising quick money, the dangerous work and harsh lifestyle strip away all fabrications and force a dark-hearted exploration of who he really is. On the unforgiving Bering Sea, Adam finds the adventure and authenticity of a fisherman's life revelatory. The labor required...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness: desire, desperation, hunger, fear, sadness, shame, longing. In these stories, a young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium-though...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three women investigate the death of a high-profile local woman in a small Southern town, and when they find a connection to a cultish personal development group, their discoveries have scorching consequences for the whole community.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Shea Davison is a teen-aged TikTok star with nearly a million followers, but she is being followed by Nora, who is convinced that she and Shea are fated to be best friends--even if she has to kidnap Shea to make it a reality.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Bryce, Beatriz, and Santiago were inseparable, but after the dissolution of their friendship and Bryce's suicide, Beatriz and Santiago attempt to reconcile and navigate love, mental illness, and forgiveness.
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"A narrator's journey to discover his true self and the outermost reaches of sexual and artistic expression"--
After abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of Hugs and Cuddles zealously recommits himself to a man he calls "the engineer", a childhood friend with whom he shared a pivotal sexual encounter. Many years have passed since their prepubescent wrestling; everywhere around them is a nation in decline....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Wyatt Westlock has returned to her childhood home of Willow Heath, intending to burn it down--until she finds Peter hanging in the basement, a boy whom she considered a friend, semi-immortal and ritually sacrificed every year to keep the ancient forces in the nearby forest at bay.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie Egide is desperate to carve out a fresh start for her family. With her husband and their three surviving children, Marie travels to New Hampshire, where she plans to sell a family estate and then, just maybe, they'll be able to heal from their grief. Marie's plans are thwarted when she realizes a war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" is living in a cabin on the property,...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother's legacy. On the night of Maren's annual New Year's Eve party, a line is crossed, and word of a humiliating family meltdown spreads like a Northern California wildfire through the culinary elite. It's a golden opportunity for one of them to step into power and a trigger...
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