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Always remember
Balogh, Mary, author
2024
Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. When Ben Ellis comes across Lady Jennifer, he instantly understands her yearning. But he must be careful. He is the bastard son of the late Earl of Stratton. Though he was raised with the earl's family, he knows he does not really belong in the world of the ton. Both families are alarmed by the growing friendship and perhaps more that they sense developing between the two. A duke's sister certainly cannot marry the bastard son of an earl. Except sometimes, love can find a way.
Cold : a novel
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962- author
2024
Elmore Trent, professor of Indigenous studies, who finds himself entangled in an affair; Paul North plays in the Indigenous Hockey League, struggles to keep up with the game; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders, with clues that leading to both Elmore and Paul. And then there's Fabiola Halan, famed survivor of a plane crash. What starts off as a series of subtle connections between isolated characters quickly takes a menacing turn, as it becomes increasingly clear that someone - or something - is hunting them all.
Come and get it : a novel
Reid, Kiley, author
2024
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
A friend in the dark
Bailey, Samantha M., 1973- author
2024
In an impulsive decision to escape her present and revisit the past, Eden Miller sends a friend request to her college crush, Justin Ward. Eden begins an online relationship with Justin that awakens her in ways she never thought possible. But something's off. He knows too much about her and her family. Eden is forced to awaken from her fantasy and look for answers - who really is the man on the other line? The truth about Justin - and about what happened that fateful night two decades ago - puts her and her family in a fight for their lives.
How high we go in the dark : a novel
Nagamatsu, Sequoia, author
2022
In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy.
Ilium
Carpenter, Lea, author
2024
The young English narrator dreams of pretending to be someone else. Then she meets charismatic and mysterious Marcus. Marcus reveals there is something she can do for him - a plan is in place and she can help with "a favour." This turns out to be posing as an art advisor to a family on Cap Ferret, where she's to simply "listen." Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset.
Kids run the show
Vigan, Delphine de, author.
2023
Traversing the Big Brother generation, this cautionary tale follows Mélanie, a social media superstar who broadcasts her children's daily lives on a family YouTube channel, and Clara, the young police officer assigned to the case after Mélanie’s daughter is kidnapped.
The last applicant : a novel
Hanover, Rebecca, author.
2023
Audrey Singer revels in her position as the admissions director of an exclusive Manhattan private school. Then the neurotic, vulnerable Sarah Price enters her life. Determined to get her son into the city's most coveted kindergarten class, Sarah inserts herself into Audrey's world, testing boundaries at every turn. For Sarah, everything Audrey has is a potential target: her job, her friends - even her marriage. But what seems to be another ploy by an overachieving mother takes a dark and ominous turn. Sarah seems to be hiding secrets of her own.
The once and future witches
Harrow, Alix E., author
2021
"In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna -- join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote -- and perhaps not even to live -- the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be."-- Provided by publisher.
Peril in pink : a Hudson Valley B&B mystery
Leigh, Sydney, author
2024
Everything is coming up rosé for innkeeper Jess Byrne until a murder on opening weekend gives her B&B's killer vibe a whole new meaning.
Search history : a novel
Taylor, Amy, 1991- author
2023
All Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan. Evan is a complete aberration from her usual type. As much as she tries to let their budding relationship unfold IRL, Ana just can't resist the urge to find Evan online. When she discovers that his previous girlfriend, Emily, died unexpectedly less than a year ago, Ana begins to worry she's living in the shadow of his lost love. Soon she's obsessively comparing herself to Emily, trawling through her dormant social media accounts in the hope of understanding her better.
Sold on love
Fuller, Kathleen, author
2022
"The townspeople of Maple Falls never dreamed the stylish real estate agent would have anything in common with everyone's favorite mechanic. But when these two get together, the spark plugs aren't the only thing creating a charge"-- Provided by publisher.
Something about her : a novel
Taylor, Clementine, author.
2023
Maya has recently returned to the University of Edinburgh for her second year, confident in her place there and in her first proper relationship with her childhood best friend, Ethan. Aisling is a first-year student from Ireland, ready to leave her controlling family behind. Reeling from her break-up with her ex-girlfriend, she struggles to make friends and finds herself isolated. That is, until Aisling joins the Poetry Society. That's where she meets Maya, and everything changes.
Somewhere in the deep
Berwah, Tanvi, author.
2024
Seventeen-year-old Kress makes ends meet by fighting monsters, but her debts keep piling up until she is finally forced to make a deal and join a desperate rescue mission.
System collapse
Wells, Martha, author
2023
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there's something wrong with Murderbot; it isn't running within normal operational parameters. ART's crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza's SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they're going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what's wrong with itself, and fast! Yeah, this plan is... not going to work. The Murderbot Diaries All Systems Red Artificial Condition Rogue Protocol Exit Strategy Network Effect Fugitive Telemetry System Collapse"-- Provided by publisher.
These still black waters
McDonald, Christina, author
2023
After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake. When another woman's body is found, Detective Jess Lambert and Neve are forced to confront a horrible truth. Because one thing is clear: the darkness of the past is waiting. And the secrets of Black Lake are only just beginning to surface.
This is where we live
Hardie, Kate, 1968- author.
2023
"Inside a house live a mother and a child. There are normal things: walks to school, the park, pasta for tea. But there are other things, too: a severed toe on the doorstep; strange mouthfuls of flesh; wolfish snarls and sheep torn limb from limb. It is a house in which doors get chewed and nails scrape along walls. There is a monster in the house, and it is tearing it apart at the seams. But is there also a love so fierce that it cannot be broken?"--Provided by publisher.
A true account : Hannah Masury's sojourn amongst the pyrates, written by herself
Howe, Katherine, 1977- author
2023
In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose a path for herself, Hannah must hunt down the treasure and change the tides. Meanwhile, professor Marian Beresford pieces Hannah's story together in 1930. At the centre of Hannah Masury's account, however, lies a centuries-old mystery that Marian is determined to solve.
The vulnerables : a novel
Nunez, Sigrid, author.
2023
The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress.
The wake-up call
O'Leary, Beth, author
2023
It's the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the hotel's front desk, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and see it through. When Izzy returns a guest's lost wedding ring, the reward convinces management that this might be the way to fix everything. With four rings still sitting in the lost and found, the race is on for Izzy and Lucas to save their beloved hotel - and their jobs.
Where you end : a novel
Kahler, Abbott, 1973-, author
2024
When 22-year-old Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she tries to relearn her history and identity, and she trusts her twin sister Jude will provide all the answers. But as the months progress, Kat begins to fear that, maybe, Jude has been lying to her. Growing up in a sophisticated New Age cult, the girls studied poetry and literature - but also played dangerous games of cunning and savagery, games with dark lessons that followed them into adulthood. Now, with Kat's mind as a blank slate, Jude invents an idyllic childhood in the hope of erasing this history, and all the threats it still holds.
The whispers
Audrain, Ashley, 1982- author
2023
On Harlow Lane, several well-to-do neighbourhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down. Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess catches her son disobeying her, and soon everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crack - loud and clear. Before long, that same child falls from his bedside window and is rushed to the hospital in a coma. The story spins out over the course of one week, in the alternating voices of three women as they face what led to what happened one terrible night.
The witching tide : a novel
Meyer, Margaret, author.
2023
"East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being captured and detained, and Martha finds herself a silent witness to the hunt. Powerless to protest, Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for "devil's marks." She is caught between suspicion and betrayal; between shielding herself or condemning the women of the village. In desperation, she revives a wax witching doll that belonged to her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll's true powers are unknowable, Martha harbors a terrible secret, and the gallows are looming..."-- Publisher's description.
The wolves of eternity
Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- author.
2023
In 1986, realizing that he doesn't really know who his father was, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. In present-day Russia, Alevtina Kotov was never interested in learning about her biological father - when she finally starts looking into him, she learns that he died many years ago and left two sons, Joar and Syvert. Years later, when Syvert and Alevtina meet in Moscow, two very different approaches to life's great mystery emerge.