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In this novel of friendship and hard-won hope, four lives are entangled across time by one story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries. “A joy—at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of...

Three years ago, Elle (the “E” in the self-proclaimed L.O.V.E. Club) disappeared from Calendula, an affluent Chinese American suburb in inland California. Soon afterward, Liberty and Vera (“L” and “V”) moved away, leaving O alone with her grief, abandonment, and confusion. . . until Liberty and Vera return for their senior year of high school. Though the L.O.V.E. Club’s three remaining members once bonded as outcasts and gamers, they can’t pick up the pieces of their friendship. But the girls are drawn back to their old clubhouse, where they discover, loaded for them to play, a new game.

Help for sharing the truth with those deceived by the darkness.

1938. Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. An abandoned manor whispers secrets best left alone… When Maggie dares to enter the dilapidated DuMond Manor on Cat Island, she awakens something she cannot escape. Each night, her dreams grow darker, pulling her deeper into a haunting that feels all too real. Desperate, she turns to Carson Jacobs—better known to his nationwide radio audience as "Mr. Mystery"— who agrees to help her uncover the truth. But the deeper they search, the more dangerous the hauntings become… and the harder it is to ignore the spark between them.

The war has changed. The truth is rising. And Jesse Finch must rise with it. After surviving captivity and betrayal, Jesse returns to a world that barely resembles the one he left. His powers are fractured, his confidence shaken, and the enemy more dangerous than ever. As new races, forgotten magic, and divine influences emerge, Jesse must uncover truths buried beneath fear and deception.

Tout commence en 1986, lorsque l'amitié naissante entre Léo, Marion, Sophie et Clémentine se tisse à leur entrée au collège. Au fil des années, alors que la vie les pousse vers des chemins parfois divergents, leur amitié reste le fil conducteur de leur existence. Ensemble, ils traversent les joies simples, les amours naissantes qui laissent une marque indélébile, et symbolisent leur passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte. Au travers des allers et retours entre le passé et le présent, le roman dévoile comment ces moments partagés ont façonné leurs destinées actuelles.

The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard—who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom—provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the...

Une femme dont le ventre reste vide, un mari qui ne trouve pas les mots pour la rassurer, un inconnu qui frappe à la porte et s'immisce entre eux. La rencontre de trois solitudes, quelque part, dans une ferme. Marion Fayolle évoque le désir d'enfant avec une délicatesse qui n'élude pas le chagrin. Elle invente un monde où l'on transforme ce dont les autres ne veulent pas, où les amours déteignent et où la poésie se cueille à même le sauvage.

Take a meander from places labeled normal to a world that clatters, slinks, and drips. Looks aren't everything and nothing is as it seems. Along the Elizabeth River in Norfolk stands an unassuming diner where love and misery are on the menu. Come for breakfast, stay for the pie. You might never want to leave. The Dark Reflections series is a shared world based on the art by Jeff Lee Johnson in which each author has contributed a single character to the telling of the tale behind the images.

The delegates—or as Kirill thought of them, “The Seven Deadly Sins”—were not people who had brought happiness into the world. For the sake of his own survival and longevity, he had to remain on guard for the entire duration of the conference. Some periods in life are quite literally life-or-death moments, and this conference would be a long series of such moments.

One of The Observer (London)'s Best Debut Novels of 2026 A story of class and coming-of-age as a group of best friends investigates the allegations against their teacher. It’s the mid-nineties, and in the small, shitty coastal town of Vincent, Australia, four Nirvana-obsessed fourteen-year-old...

INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of NPR’s Books We Love for 2025 2026 Libby Book Awards Best Thriller For fans of Bunny and Yellowface, this razor-sharp debut thriller blends biting satire with chilling suspense, as a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life—only to...

Some friends—and friendships—are worth killing for in this dark, twisty suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Jane is unhappy. A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to...

When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to...

Pour aller de l'avant, elles devront dessiner le passé... Stella, douce et rêveuse, est passionnée de peinture. Après avoir perdu son emploi, la jeune femme se réfugie chez sa grand-tante, Letizia, qui vit seule dans sa villa sur le lac de Garde. Suite à un étrange jeu de piste orchestré par son défunt grand-oncle, Stella découvre, cachés dans une valise, des dessins qui la bouleversent. Mais quand elle interroge Letizia, celle-ci s'enferme dans un silence obstiné.

Saga, a skeptical 35-year-old woman, consults a past-life regression therapist to confront the nebulous fear she carries. Why is she so intent on sabotaging her own life? During the initial session, Saga travels back to 1975 to rural Iowa where she embodies 18-year-old Fiona Dolan, a farm girl who has always felt like an outsider, even in her large, Irish Catholic family. Fiona has been labeled as a storyteller, but this is just another way to say they think she is a liar. Even her own mother thinks she's too smart for her own good.

"Les enfants, les bébés, ils les appellent les "petitous". Et c’est vrai qu’ils sont des petits touts. Qu’ils sont un peu de leur mère, un peu de leur père, un peu des grands-parents, un peu de ceux qui sont morts, il y a si longtemps. Tout ce qu’ils leur ont transmis, caché, inventé. Tout. C’est pas toujours facile d’être un petit tout, d’avoir en soi autant d’histoires, autant de gens, de réussir à les faire taire pour inventer encore une petite chose à soi."

Sean K Ellis was convicted in 1995—at his third trial, after two prior hung juries—of the murder and robbery of controversial Boston detective John J. Mulligan. Age nineteen at the time of the crime, Sean insisted he was innocent. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Sean was a childhood friend of the author’s son. In for life is Murphy’s riveting account of her journey through a corrupt justice system in a quest to free him

Argentina è una poliziotta in servizio alla squadra mobile di Reggio Calabria e si occupa di intercettazioni. Ascolta parole ma soprattutto silenzi, li interpreta, coglie le connessioni, sviluppa indagini. Assegnata al gruppo ricerca latitanti entra nelle case, nelle vite. Ad un tratto nelle indagini di Argentina entra Nunzia. Quasi coetanee, Nunzia è infatti la figlia di Gregorio boss della Piana di Gioia Tauro. Argentina ha partecipato alle indagini che hanno portato alla cattura di Gregorio e alla fuga di Domenico, fratello di Nunzia.

From Newbery Honor–winning author Andrea Wang, a new middle grade novel about a Chinese American tween who attends a Boston-based Chinese cultural overnight camp—and the many ways it transforms her. Phoenny Fang plans to have the best summer ever. She’s returning to Summertime Chinese...