AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today
& ldquo;Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender. & rdquo; & mdash; Washington Post
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus
After Tova Sullivan & rsquo;s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she & rsquo;s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn & rsquo;t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors & mdash;until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova & rsquo;s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it & rsquo;s too late.
Shelby Van Pelt & rsquo;s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It.In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis & rsquo;s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there & rsquo;s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents & mdash;telekinesis and telepathy & mdash;who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, & ldquo;like the roach motel, & rdquo; Kalisha says. & ldquo;You check in, but you don & rsquo;t check out. & rdquo;In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don & rsquo;t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King & rsquo;s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don & rsquo;t always win.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKerri Maniscalco makes her adult debut with this New York Times bestselling sensation, a "hot" new standalone fantasy romance (Jennifer L. Armentrout) about a dark prince battling an impossible curse & mdash;and the artist who might be the only one who can set him free.Sinner. Villain. Wicked.The Prince of Envy has never claimed to be a saint. But when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows it will take more than a hint of sin to win and save his falling demon court. Riddles, hexed objects, anonymous players, nothing will stand in his way, though none of his meticulous plans prepare him for her, the frustrating artist who ignites his sin like no other & hellip; Virtuous. Darling. Liar.The trouble with scoundrels and blackguards is that they haven & rsquo;t a modicum of honor, a fact Miss Camilla Antonius learns after one desperate mistake allows Waverly Green & rsquo;s most notorious rake to blackmail her. To avoid a ruinous scandal, Camilla is forced to enter a devil & rsquo;s bargain with Envy, little expecting his game will awaken her true nature . . .Together, Envy and Camilla must embark on a perilous journey through the Underworld & mdash;from glittering demon courts to the sultry vampire realm and beyond & mdash;while trying to avoid the most dangerous trap of all: falling in love.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden & rsquo;s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson & rsquo;s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Powerful and deeply empathetic. A heartbreaking tale of lost ideals, human devotion, and hard won redemption. Dust Child establishes Nguyen Phan Que Mai as one of our finest observers of the devastating consequences of war, and proves, once more, her ability to captivate readers and lure them into Viet Nam & rsquo;s rich and poignant history. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer and The CommittedFrom the bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the war in Viet Nam.In 1969, sisters Trang and Quynh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work at a bar in Sai Gon. Once in the big city, the young girls are thrown headfirst into a world they were not expecting. They learn how to speak English, how to dress seductively, and how to drink and flirt and more with American GIs in return for money. As the war moves closer to the city, the once innocent Trang gets swept up in an irresistible romance with a handsome and kind American helicopter pilot she meets at the bar.Decades later, an American veteran, Dan, returns to Viet Nam with his wife, Linda, in search of a way to heal from his PTSD instead, secrets he thought he had buried surface and threaten his marriage. At the same time, Phong the adult son of a Black American soldier and a Vietnamese woman embarks on a mission to find both his parents and a way out of VietNam. Abandoned in front of an orphanage, Phong grew up being called the dust of life, Black American imperialist, and child of the enemy, and he dreams of a better life in the United States for himself, his wife Binh, and his children.Past and present converge as these characters come together to confront decisions made during a time of war decisions that reverberate throughout one another & rsquo;s lives and ultimately allow them to find common ground across race, generation, culture, and language. Immersive, moving, and lyrical, Dust Child tells an unforgettable story of how those who inherited tragedy can redefine their destinies with hard won wisdom, compassion, courage, and joy.
TAKEN is a literary prosaic masterpiece by T.I, Harmony Okokwo. Its narrative is a rollercoaster traversal that spans continents portraying an enthralling expression and meditation on the mismeasure and manipulation of man, and the ambiguity of race.
What's more; the book portrays lies, betrayal, sorrow and war; loyalty, solace, happiness, love, peace, and a little bit of everything, are portrayed through the life journey of the main character, Loyalty Chamberlain, who became entangled in the entwined web of it all.
Compelling and a didactically fare-thee-well book for the soul.
The New York Times bestselling novel & ndash; an unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN THIS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF A THRILLER & hellip;
In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit & mdash;a cold case squad & mdash;to catch the criminals nobody else can. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner & mdash;convicted of forgery and theft & mdash;was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? On a luxury liner en route to New York, the battle for power within a wealthy dynasty is about to turn to murder. And at the heart of all three investigations are Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick, rising star of the department, and ex-undercover agent Ross Hogan, brought in from the cold.
But can they catch the killers before it & rsquo;s too late?
Praise for Jeffrey Archer:
& ldquo;Archer is a master entertainer. & rdquo; & mdash;Time & ldquo;Cunning plots, silken style & hellip;Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader. & rdquo; & mdash;The New York Times & ldquo;One of the top ten storytellers in the world. & rdquo; & mdash;Los Angeles Times & ldquo;A storyteller in the class of Alexandre Dumas. & rdquo; & mdash;The Washington Post
Over My Dead Body was a New York Times bestseller November 7th 2021.
Sam Silver: Undercover Pirate: The Ghost Ship By Jan Burchett, Sara Vogler
How to become an Undercover Pirate & hellip;1)Have a pirate captain as your ancient ancestor2)Find a message in a bottle and a magic gold doubloon3)Get whisked back in time to join a pirate crew4)When you get home don't tell anyone. Remember & ndash; you & rsquo;re undercover!When Sam Silver and the crew of the Sea Wolf board a galleon looking for Spanish gold, they find it & rsquo;s already been stolen & ndash; by a ghost ship! Can our pirate heroes outwit a ghostly crew or is the treasure gone for ever?
Zilayefa leaves her rustic yet protective existence, in search of a better life in the city, she is taken in and catered for by Sisi, an elderly woman, and her young friend, Lolo. Thrust into the bustling city of Port Harcourt, unprepared for the pitfalls awaiting a young girl in desperate need of direction, she is confronted by the prejudices against her racial identity. She struggles with accepting the void left by not knowing her father and tries to fill that void with the attention of another.
Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last pay cheque, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job- missing persons.
A novel.
With the long dreaded Seed of the woman delivered at Bethlehem, the prophecy of the Coming One has now been fulfilled. Lucifer realizes that any hope to win the war is slipping away and decides upon a desperate Gamble, he will have to face the Son personally. With his demonic host to assist him, Lucifer makes plans to cut the Messiah down once and for all. Boasting that he will "more than bruise His heal", Lucifer decides to destroy the Son from within his inner circle and sets his heart upon a dark plan that will end on the darkest day in history, or so he believes. Set in and around Jerusalem, Final Confrontation describes the death match between light and darkness that reaches a brutal and bloody climax at Calvary.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops, and invisibly ferry classified documents.The Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story--the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who was sent to the Gulag and inspired Zhivago's heroine, Lara--with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk. From Pasternak's country estate outside Moscow to the brutalities of the Gulag, from Washington, D.C. to Paris and Milan, The Secrets We Kept captures a watershed moment in the history of literature--told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail. And at the center of this unforgettable debut is the powerful belief that a piece of art can change the world.
