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By Nita Prose. 2023
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE BOOK 2 OF 2: MOLLY THE MAID“Prepare to be swept away again…
into the wonderfully endearing and unforgettable world of Molly. . . . Nita Prose writes like no other—I loved this even more than her utterly delightful debut.” —Ashley Audrain, bestselling author of The Push and The Whispers“Polished to perfection!” —Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of Everyone Here Is LyingA new mess. A new mystery. It’s up to Molly the maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty, in this standalone novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid, a Good Morning America Book Club pick. Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tea room floor.When Detective Stark, Molly's old foe, investigates the author’s unexpected demise, it becomes clear that this death was murder most foul. Suspects abound, and everyone wants to know: Who killed J.D. Grimthorpe? Was it Lily, the new Maid-in-Training? Or was it Serena, the author’s secretary? Could Mr. Preston, the hotel’s beloved doorman, be hiding something? And is Molly really as innocent as she seems?As the case threatens the hotel’s pristine reputation, Molly knows that she alone holds the key to unlocking the killer's identity. But that key is buried deep in her past—because long ago, she knew J.D. Grimthorpe. Molly must comb her memory for clues, and revisit her childhood and the mysterious Grimthorpe mansion where her dearly departed Gran once worked. With Molly and her colleagues under investigation, she knows she must solve the mystery post-haste. And if there's one thing she knows for sure, it's that dirty secrets don't stay buried forever...By Darren Greer. 2014
In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness…
breeds violence, violence causes despair. The only way to change fate, a minister tells his son, is to leave. The minister’s son, Jake MacNeil, chooses to ignore his father’s advice. Only when he realizes what has become of his life — working a grueling dead-end job, living with a drunk, friends with a murderer — does he decide to make something of himself. But nothing comes without a cost: in choosing freedom, Jake abandons his own son, Nathan, to the care of the boy’s abusive mother. Years later, a reformed Jake comes back for Nathan, to finally set things right. But in North River, everything comes around again; and when a dangerous figure from the past becomes hell-bent on dragging the new Jake “back down where he belongs”, three generations of MacNeil men must come together to pay the full price of hope. Gritty, unrelenting, yet peppered with Darren Greer’s trademark poignance, Just Beneath My Skin is the work of an author at the height of his game.By Anna Porter. 2023
A haunting psychological suspense novel about a young woman who visits her remote family cottage seeking answers to a murky…
past—for fans of Catherine McKenzie and Amber Cowie.When her estranged father goes missing, Jude is persuaded by her mother to find his will. She travels to the family cottage on remote Gull Island, glad to be away from the city and to have the chance to sort through old memories, but is unsettled by what she finds there. While contending with the neglected cottage and encroaching wild animals, Jude looks not only for her father’s will, but also for photographs of herself as a baby, desperate for proof that she was loved as a child. However, loneliness and terrifying dreams soon wear on her, bringing back frightening memories. Thoughts of her distant mother and intimidating father, her jealous sister, and her mother’s mysterious friend infest Jude’s increasingly clouded mind. Then a fierce storm sweeps away her boat and severs her from the outside world. Forced to reckon with long-buried truths and filled with the terrible sense that the cottage may be haunted by more than the past, Jude begins to fear for her sanity—and her life.By Alicia Elliott. 2023
*National Bestseller**Named a Globe and Mail and CBC Best Book of the Year*A Most Anticipated Book Pick by Toronto Star,…
CBC, The Walrus, Good Morning America, Bustle, CrimeReads, Electric Literature, Debutiful, Ms. Magazine, The Nerd Daily, and PasteA mind-bending, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequencesOn the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be. She's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve, is nothing but supportive; and they've recently moved to a wealthy neighborhood in Toronto. And yet, Alice feels like an imposter. She isn't connecting with Dawn, a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her mother, and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from her watchful white neighbors. Her growing self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left: her goal of writing a modern retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story.At first, Alice is convinced her discomfort is of her own making, but then strange things start happening. She finds herself losing bits of time, hearing voices she can't explain, and speaking with things that should not be talking back to her, all while her neighbors' passive-aggressive behavior begins to morph into something far more threatening. Though Steve assures her this is all in her head, Alice cannot fight the feeling that something is very, very wrong, and that in her creation story lies the key to her and Dawn's survival. . . . She just has to finish it before it's too late.Told in Alice's darkly funny voice, And Then She Fell is an urgent and unflinching look at inherited trauma, womanhood, denial, and false allyship, which speeds to an unpredictable—and surreal—climax.By Daphne Du Maurier. 1976
By John D Lee. 1971
By John Altman. 2003
Hannah Gray takes a Mediterranean cruise despite her fears of being accused of insurance fraud. She befriends Renee Epstein, who…
unknowingly loans her a paperback containing a formula for a powerful weapon. When the Epsteins are murdered, Hannah flees with the book--not knowing why or from whom. Violence and strong language. 2003By Robin Cook. 2003
Senator Ashley Butler will hold up permission for stem-cell research being proposed by doctors Daniel Lowell and Stephanie D'Agostino unless…
they secretly perform experimental surgery on him to cure his Parkinson's. The politician also complicates the deal by wanting to use cells obtained from the Shroud of Turin. Bestseller.By Michael M Thomas. 1994
Civil servant Clarence Greaves is investigating the records of a California bank that happens to hold the account for Thunderbolt…
Videos, a company in which he owns stock. But Greaves discovers that Thunderbolt Videos has never existed. He gives a tip to Lee Boynton, a publisher, who, with investigator Thurlow Coole, checks into the video company, and soon discovers they are dealing with international money laundering. Strong language and some violenceBy Chris Hadfield. 2023
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A full throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turner . . . Get ready to blast off and enjoy the ride!"—Jack…
Carr, former Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the James Reece Terminal List series"Continuous action, Mach-speed mayhem, sharp intrigue, and well-rounded characters—what more could you want from a thriller?"—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The 9th Man and the Cotton Malone seriesFrom the author of the #1 bestselling thriller The Apollo Murders comes the supersonic hunt for a shadowy Soviet defector.Israel, October 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below . . . and promptly disappears.NASA Flight Controller and former top US test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the ground—and is quickly pulled into a dizzying, high-stakes game of spies, lies and a possible high-level defection that plays out across three continents. The prize is beyond value: the secrets of the Soviets’ mythical “Foxbat” MiG-25, the fastest, highest-flying fighter plane in the world and the key to Cold War air supremacy. But every defection is double-edged with risk, and Kaz needs to tread a careful line between trust and suspicion. Ultimately, he must invite the fox into the henhouse—bringing the defector into the heart of the United States’ most secret test site—and hope that, with skill and cunning, the game plays out his way.For Chris Hadfield’s second heart-stopping thriller, we move from Space to another rich and exciting part of Chris’s CV: his time as a top test pilot in both the US Air Force and the US Navy, and as an RCAF fighter pilot intercepting armed Soviet bombers in North American airspace. Full of insider detail, excitement and political intrigue drawn from real events, The Defector brings us the nerve-shredding rush of aerial combat, as told by one of the world's top fighter pilots.By Adam Pottle, Marissa Van Uden. 2023
"An intensely unsettling read." -David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED XVIOLENCE WAS HIS FIRST LANGUAGE. After years…
of imprisonment, a Deaf teen escapes his father's basement. Bloody, alone, and without language, he stumbles through the Saskatchewan prairie until he lands in an isolated psychiatric facility, where he meets Felix, another Deaf teen, who eagerly teaches him Sign Language. As the two grow closer, the ambitious and cunning Felix begins to see his pupil less like an individual and more like a mind that he can mold in his own image, and as his ego grows, his plans to break free from the facility become increasingly more dangerous.Told entirely from a Deaf perspective, Apparitions is a powerful story like no other. With prose compared to Cormac McCarthy and Jack Ketchum, this is horror literature at its finest.By John Fowles. 1969
A mid-Victorian novel set in England in the 1860s and 1870s, but with a contemporary narrator. An educated governess, betrayed…
by a French lieutenant, attracts a man who is engaged to marry the rich, shallow daughter of a merchant princeBy Peter Engel. 1983
Through a series of clever maneuvers, Simon Bagnew is appointed president of an ailing pharmaceutical company. Willing to do almost…
anything to keep the job, he is almost overwhelmed by the challenges: the murder of his assistant, stock manipulations involving kinky sex and violence, the Mafia and blackmail. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexBy Alistair MacLean. 1983
Thriller hinges on a daring plot by a terrorist group called the Fighters for Freedom. They plan to flood Holland…
by setting off nuclear devices to destroy key dykes unless British troops quit Ulster. It becomes the task of Dutch detective Van Effen, whose sister is being held hostage, to win the trust of the terrorists by offering to help them. Book Club main selectionBy Michael Collins. 1983
Dan Fortune, a rugged Manhattan detective, is hired by a wealthy computer magnate to find his youngest son, who married…
hastily and vanished with his totally unsuitable young wife. The faint trail leads Fortune across the country to Arizona, where he tracks the couple, only to have the case backfire in a nightmare of bloody surprises. Strong languageBy Steve Tesich. 1982
In the summer of 1961 in the town of East Chicago, Indiana, Daniel Price graduates from high school and becomes…
obsessed with his newfound love, Rachel. Even though Daniel's future is uncertain and his father is dying of cancer, his main concern is his affair with Rachel. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexBy Ellen Douglas. 1982
A sixty-two-year-old college teacher and mother of three grown children discovers that her poetry-spouting doctor-husband has recently been unfaithful. This…
compelling novel is her diary, at turns cynical, shocked, hurt, passionate, and crudely frank. Strong language and some descriptions of sexBy Loup Durand. 1988
When World War II broke out, an elderly banker secreted in various Swiss accounts more than $350 million in Jewish…
fortunes. Now the Nazis are trying to get at the money by using Gregor Laemmle, supposedly the most intelligent man in the Third Reich. But there is only one person who knows the codes to those accounts--eleven-year-old Thomas, the banker's great-grandsonBy Eric Lustbader. 1990
The ninja Nicholas Linnear loses his way on the Moonlit Path, and is stripped of his warrior powers. Consequently he…
becomes a "shiro ninja"--a white ninja. And it couldn't happen at a worse time. Nicholas is estranged from his wife, his best friend needs help in thwarting a takeover attempt, and a mad man is stalking the streets of Tokyo. Sequel to "The Miko" (BR 05898). Violence and explicit descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy John Sandford. 1991
Minneapolis homicide cop Lucas Davenport has two psychological killers on his hands. Carlo Druze, a burn-victim and actor, kills the…
wife of Dr. Bekker, a drug-addicted pathologist. Then Bekker kills Druze's boss. Soon there is a third body. And like the other two, its eyes have been badly mutilated. It may just be too much for Davenport. Strong language