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Pay Dirt by Paretsky, Sara, author.
Date added:
Mar 20, 2024
Pay Dirt

Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky.

 
The Museum of Lost Quilts

Jennifer Chiaverinis beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Creek Quilts novel since 2019s The Christmas Boutique.

 
Memory of Light, A

A Memory of Light is book fourteen of The Wheel of Time?, the internationally bestselling fantasy series.

 
I Will Ruin You

In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teachers act of heroism inadvertently makes him the target of a dangerous blackmailer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

 
Close to Death

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitzs ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case?a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.

 
The Truth about the Devlins

Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart. TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm?except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ cant get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJs world tur

 
Towers of Midnight

The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark Ones prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight. The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age. Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Telaranrhiod and find a way--at lo

 
The Three-Body Problem

A Hugo-Award winning tour de force near-future adventure with the scope of Dune and commercial action of Independence Day from China's most beloved science fiction writer With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim, including coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journ

 
Supercommunicators

From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work?and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Cha

 
Snowglobe by Park, Soyoung, author.
Date added:
Mar 20, 2024
Snowglobe

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold?but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel translated into English for the first time! ?The Hunger Games meets Squid Game in Soyoung Park's dystopian thriller Snowglobe? ?Entertainment Weekly Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth thats warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wastela

 
Slow Productivity

From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload Our current definition of ?productivity? is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. Were overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition

 
Listen for the Lie

"A world-class whodunit." ?Stephen King ?An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills.? ?Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author ?Laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty...? ?Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter? After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvys blood,

 
James by Everett, Percival, author.
Date added:
Mar 20, 2024
James

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Fre

 
The Hunter by French, Tana, author.
Date added:
Mar 20, 2024
The Hunter

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and ?one of the greatest crime novelists writing today? (Vox), a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside. Its a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. Hes found it, more or less: hes built a relations

 
How to Solve Your Own Murder

A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunts death,and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the killer. In 1965 a fortune teller warns 17-year-old

 
The Gathering Storm

Tarmon Gaidon, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready. The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordans editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gathering Stor

 
Funny Story by Henry, Emily, author.
Date added:
Mar 20, 2024
Funny Story

Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it...right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a childrens librarian (that

 
The Familiar

Aldwyns just an ordinary alley cat living a rough-and-tumble street life in Bridgetower when hes chosen by Jack, a young wizard-in-training, to be his familiar. Jack and his wizard mentor, Kalstaff, take the scruffy cat home to Stone Runlet where Aldwyn meets his fellow familiars, Skylar and Gilbert. At first Aldwyn thinks that hes got it made, but then the unthinkable happens: Jack and the other young wizards are captured by the evil queen of Vastia. The familiars have to save them! Over the ne

 
Extinction

Jurassic World meets CJ Box's Joe Pickett series in #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston's latest thriller With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals. Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offe

 
The Book of Love

In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle. ?A dizzying dream ride you will never forget.?Leigh Bardugo ?An astonishing, gorgeous novel.?Holly Black ?An incredible achievement.?Cassandra Clare The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love?from friendship to romance to abiding family ties?with her trade

 

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