Faith Richards, a beloved TV meteorologist, is murdered after vanishing during a work break. As the town unravels, an intern digs into a web of secrets, suspects, and hidden grudges. The investigation exposes Faith’s true life and sparks a tense psychological chase filled with twists and a devastating final reveal.
Isla Crown is determined to defeat her insidious ancestor, Lark, no matter the cost. But Skyshade is nothing like she anticipated, and she’ll have to use all of her skills just to survive, let alone end Lark for good.
"Cassia Park believes in soul mates. Fated love stories. It's her family business, after all...for centuries, from Korea to Los Angeles. Park women have peered into clients' past lives to find their one true love, their fated. This magical secret is why One & Only Matchmaking has a 100% guarantee... for everyone but Cassia" -- Book jacket.
This story about a most adorable kitten is an affectionate invitation to identify with and love this small cat.
Combines memoir, spiritual exploration, and guidance by drawing on the author's journey and insights from celebrated writers to argue that writing is a soulful act requiring creativity, courage, and a deep connection to one's imagination and inner self.
In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris—even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program in the Netherlands. The city, the language, the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she'd been reckoning with in school. Even as her experiences with the family in Paris begin to echo the troubles left in the Netherlands, Marie pushes on. Years later, during the 2015 attacks in Paris, Marie is shocked to recognize her former teacher, and the main reason she fled the Netherlands, pictured in aftermath of the attacks, in the exact arrondissement where her previous employers live. The past she believed she's untethered from turns out to be be a knot still capable of constricting tightly around her. Can she face Paris—and what she ran away from to get to Paris—and finally disentangle herself from her past?
Siblings Violet, Vail, and Dodie Esmie return to the house they fled 18 years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request: Come home." -- adapted from publisher's description.
"Everybody loses is the first major investigation into America's sports gambling industry. Journalist Danny Funt has obtained wild stories and stunning admissions from the people trying to transform our nation of sports fans into a nation of sports gambers,... This riveting narrative will captivate sports fans, concerned parents, and anyone intrigued by the intersection of money and morals. Everybody Loses is the crucial book for understaning why sports gambling is suddenly everywhere-- and why the odds are so great that the problems it's creating will soon spiral out of control."-- From dust jacket.
In 1813 wartime France, Major Richard Sharpe must protect the reckless Rear-Admiral Sir Joel Chase, whose secret plan could help defeat Napoleon. Battling winter and enemies alike, Sharpe faces a deadly mission requiring cunning, grit, and survival.
Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, this collection features stories from beyond the bounds of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe [and] includes nine works of short fiction never before gathered into one volume, many available here in print for the first time.-- modified from publisher.
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"Sometimes the road home isn't on a map. The Lighthouse at the Cove is a tender, romantic escape to a coastal town where hearts heal, hope shines, and love finds a way--right when you least expect it"-- Provided by publisher.
Eighth-grader Jasper feels abandoned when his brother Callan leaves for college, so he starts their promised fossil dig alone—only to hear the voice of a saber-toothed tiger calling to him as he unleashes a monster he cannot control.
"... poet and novelist Griffiths (Promise) details the most challenging period of her life, during which her best friend died and her husband, the author Salman Rushdie, was brutally attacked" -- Publishers Weekly.
Courtney Gray's peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece Reese is missing. Her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs--unharmed. As police swarm the quiet resort, dark truths about Courtney's family--and the town itself--begin to surface. Is Reese a victim... or the killer?
The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe--one of America's most iconic journalists and filmmakers--revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation,in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith's Just Kids with a dash of Moss Hart's Act One. The Uncool is a ... dispatch from a lost world, the real-life events that became Almost Famous, and a coming-of-age journey filled with characters you won't soon forget.