Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families. He is arraigned to be...
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Author: Wharton, EdithSummary:Genre: Classic fiction, Romance fiction -
Author: Meyer, StephenieSummary:An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without...
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Author: Klein, NaomiSummary:The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market”...
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Author: Williams, PaigeSummary:
New Yorker staff writer Paige Williams delves into the riveting and sometimes perilous world of the international fossil trade through the true story of one man's devastating attempt to sell...
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Author: Meyer, StephenieSummary:
She used to work for the US government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name...
Genre: Spy fiction, Thrillers (Fiction) -
Author: Lapena, ShariSummary:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A quintessential 'beach read,' I half expected sand to fall out of it. This one brings lurid family mayhem to the Hudson Valley [and]...
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction) -
Author: Dekker, TedSummary:Maviah is an outcast, but when she meets a man named Yeshua, he opens her eyes. Because of his teachings, she has gathered her own traveling kingdom of outcasts deep in the desert. But when her...
Genre: Historical fiction, Religious fiction -
Author: Dekker, TedSummary:A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it...
Genre: Historical fiction, Religious fiction -
Author: Oakes, Lauren E.Summary:
The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's...
Genre: Science, Nature and the environment -
Author: Haslett, AdamSummary:"Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization."--Wall Street Journal "Ambitious and stirring ... With Imagine Me Gone...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Zailckas, KorenSummary:From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how...
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Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It's where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. But to Ma, it's the prison where she's been held for seven years...
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Author: Overton, HollieSummary:Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole life. But one day their captor leaves the...
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Author: Carcaterra, LorenzoSummary:Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "Third Party," Jay...
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Author: Fogel, SusannaSummary:Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, Nuclear Family is a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents.
Genre: Domestic fiction, Epistolary fiction