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When four strangers rent bargain-basement rooms in an old hotel near the beach, they embark on the summer of their lives. First there's Ariel Spencer, who has big dreams of becoming a writer and is looking for inspiration in Nantucket's high society. Her new friend Sheila Murphy is a good Catholic girl from Ohio whose desire for adventure is often shadowed by her apprehension. Then there's small-town Missourian Wyatt Smith--who's immediately taken...

"Ever since childhood, Emma and Sophie were bound by a passion for painting. Like all young best friends, they promised to never lose touch. But the girls came from different worlds, and their paths diverged when Emma went to an elite college and Sophie worked her way through state school. After a decade they've reconnected, both in a time of need. Emma has been struggling with depression since her college years, and she's lost herself under the...

THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan's women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions." -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours  In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples...

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story

There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.

Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has

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From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a brand-new small town, older-brother's best friend standalone romance. "I'll take them!" That's what I tell the social worker when my pre-k student and his baby brother need an emergency foster placement. I'll do anything to keep the brothers from being split up. But my apartment's flooded and there's only one house I can take them to on such short notice...his. Knox Daniels, my older brother's...

From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes... a baby carriage? Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and...

Would you call Alice Teakle a stalker? Or, just someone with an, um, healthy obsession with golden girl Polly Linley Dawson? No one much notices Alice: not her boss, not the neighbors, not even her Mother. Besides, everyone follows Polly: her business selling high-end lingerie you can imagine only her elegant self-wearing, her all-over-the-social-pages marriage to movie director Humphrey Dawson, her chic looks, her wardrobe. Alice just follows her...

Ha pasado casi un mes desde la desaparición de Sam, Rose está más preocupada que nunca, mueve cielo y tierra para encontrarlo, pero sin éxito... hasta que recibe un misterioso mensaje diciéndole que se dirija a una dirección si quiere ver al hombre que ella ama de nuevo... ¿Dónde está Sam? ¿Está el vivo? ¿Se está poniendo Rose en peligro al ir a esta dirección?

Rachel See thinks she has it all figured out, until her boyfriend breaks things off and she's left with a job she dreads. Taking a leap, she decides to move abroad to Ireland, where she takes a position at a company without really knowing what the business does or what the job entails. While there, with the help of a new crew of international friends and her old buddy in New York, Magda, she finally learns to let go of stability and ambition to experience...

🐾 Laugh-out-loud mysteries starring talking cats, unexpected twists, and a crime-solving duo that will steal your heart! 🐾Max and Dooley are back with more purrfectly perplexing cases to crack!The peaceful town of Hampton Cove is shaken by murder once again, and it's up to Max, the quick-witted tabby detective, and his lovable partner Dooley to get to the bottom of things. But when a new detective, Chase Kingsley, and his grumpy feline sidekick...