Recreation

New Titles Fiction September 2019 (arrived in August)

ADVENTURE

State of fear, Tim Ayliffe.
John Bailey has a history of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The veteran war reporter has been kidnapped and tortured - twice. Finally he's living something that resembles a normal life. But all that changes when a terrorist murders a woman in front of Bailey in London.
The carrier, Mattias Berg.
Erasmus Levine has a job like no other. He travels with the President of the United States at all times, and holds in his hands the power to obliterate life as we know it. He is the man with the nuclear briefcase, part of a crack team of top-secret operatives established after 9/11, led by a man codenamed Edelweiss. But not even Edelweiss is party to the identity of their ultimate authority, known only as Alpha.
Jack of spades, Diane Capri.
In Lee Child's twenty-third Jack Reacher novel, Past Tense, Reacher found his roots and a heap of trouble in Laconia, New Hampshire. A young Canadian couple took the spoils at the end of the war. Now, the real owner will stop at nothing to get back what belongs to him. Reacher wasn't there to protect his only brother, Joe, who was killed in the line of duty years ago. Will he show up to protect his brother's son?
This is Gomorrah, Tom Chatfield.
Azi Bello is an amiable outsider with a genius for hacking. Having spent the better part of his life holed up in a shed in his backyard, Azi has become increasingly enmeshed in the dark side of the internet. With the divide between online and offline worlds vanishing, so too is the line between those transforming civilization through technology and those trying to bring it to its knees.
The Russian, Ben Coes.
After the break-up of the Soviet Union, some of their most hardened and capable criminals came to the United States. They created a vicious and fearless underworld, disturbing in its efficiency, and destructive to society at large. The President issues top secret Executive Order 12-4b3 creating a small, deadly team to take on this fight behind the scenes a kill team.
The lost outlaw, Paul Fraser Collard.
In the midst of civil war, America stands divided. Jack Lark has faced both armies first hand, but will no longer fight for a cause that isn't his. 1863, Louisiana. Jack may have left the battlefield behind, but his gun is never far from reach, especially on the long and lonely road to nowhere. Soon, his skill lands him a job, and a new purpose.
The Russia account, Stephen Coonts.
The daughter of an official at a minor bank in Estonia is kidnapped. CIA officer Tommy Carmellini is drawn into a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from the small bank to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of the Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself.
The fifth man: a Ben Sign mystery, Matthew Dunn.
An Argentinian spy ship, disguised as a trawler, has been sailing around the Falkland Islands. One winter night, four islanders get drunk in a bar and decide to sail their boat out to sea to confront the spy ship. The four men washed ashoree the next day. Former senior MI6 officer Ben Sign and his business partner, former under cover cop Tom Knutsen, are tasked by the British military to investigate the deaths.
The Russian doll: a Ben Sign mystery, Matthew Dunn.
A high ranking female MI6 officer; Jayne Archer, commissions private detectives Ben Sign and Tom Knutsen to investigate two matters: first, why her best Russian double agent has lost her nerve and no longer wants to work for Archer; second, what has happened to Archer's twin sister who was separated from her at birth in Moscow.
The spy whisperer: a Ben Sign mystery, Matthew Dunn.
Six senior MI6 officers have been shortlisted to be the next head of British Intelligence. One by one, they are committing suicide. But the suicides are not what they seem. They have been forced to take their lives by a supremely clever individual. Former high-ranking MI6 officer Ben Sign is instructed to identify who is behind the murders.
Into the jungle, Erica Ferencik.
Lily Bushwold thought she'd found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a teaching job in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it. When the gig falls through and Lily stays in Bolivia, she finds bonding with other broke, rudderless girls at the local hostel isn't the life she wants either.
Red metal, Mark Greaney.
A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector.
A single source, Peter Hanington.
William Carver spots the Arab Spring early, aided by one of the infamous 'Listeners' at the BBC monitoring station in Caversham. He and his producer Patrick chase the story across North Africa before arriving in Egypt where the battle between the corrupt old order and the new will be both bloody and potentially definitive.
Game of snipers: a Bob Lee Swagger novel, Stephen Hunter.
When Bob Lee Swagger is approached by a woman who lost a son to war and has spent the years since risking all that she has to find the sniper who pulled the trigger, he knows right away he'll do everything in his power to help her.
Short range, Stephen Leather.
Dan 'Spider' Shepherd's career path; soldier, cop, MI5 officer, has always put a strain on his family. So he is far from happy to learn that MI5 is using teenagers as informants. As an undercover specialist, Shepherd is tasked with protecting a 15-year-old schoolboy who is being used to gather evidence against violent drug dealers and a right-wing terrorist group.
Black sun: a novel, Owen Matthews.
It is the dawn of the 1960s. In order to investigate the gruesome death of a brilliant young physicist, KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin must leave Moscow for Arzamas- 16, a top-secret research city that does not appear on any map. There he comes up against the brightest, most cutthroat brain trust in Russia.
Dragonfly: a novel, Leila Meacham.
At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of his or her own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly.
Ghosts of the past, Tony Park.
German South West Africa 1906, Australian horse trader Cyril Blake is executed in cold blood by the Kaiser's soldiers. Sydney, the present day. Blake's great nephew, recently widowed Nick Eatwell, is approached by South African journalist Susan Vidler who is investigating his ancestor's mysterious demise.
Verses for the dead, Douglas Preston.
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the unorthodox lone wolf must now work with a partner. Pendergast and his new cohort, Special Agent Coldmoon, are dispatched to Florida to investigate a rash of ritualistic murders.
The new girl, Daniel Silva.
At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. When she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, is thrust into a deadly secret war with an old enemy.
Backlash: a thriller, Brad Thor.
In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. and once crossed, there was no crossing back.
To the lions, Holly Watt.
Tipped off by an overheard conversation at an exclusive London nightclub, Casey Benedict, star reporter at the Post, begins to investigate the apparent suicide of a wealthy young British man, whose death has left his fiancee and family devastated.

FANTASY

Shadows of the short days, Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson.
Saemundur the Mad, addict and sorcerer, has been expelled from the magical university, Svartiskoli, and can no longer study galdur, an esoteric source of magic. Obsessed with proving his peers wrong, he will stop at nothing to gain absolute power and knowledge, especially of that which is long forbidden.
Sweep of the blade, Ilona Andrews.
Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers--a special group who provide 'lodging' to other-planetary visitors so she knows that a simple life isn't in the cards. But even Maud could never have anticipated what Fate would throw at her.
Magebane, Stephen Aryan
A plague rages in the streets of Perizzi. City, guards rally to deal with riots while the young magicians of the Tower pool their healing powers to find a cure. Elsewhere, new alliances are formed to stem the rising darkness strengthening a deity who feeds on pestilence and decay.
The house of sundering flames, Aliette de Bodard.
The great magical Houses of Paris headed by Fallen angels and magicians were, however temporarily, at peace with each other, until House Harrier was levelled by a powerful explosion. Now that peace has become chaos, tearing apart old alliances and setting off a race in which each House hoards magic and resources to protect itself against another such blast.
Lost acre, Andrew Caldecott.
Gervon Wynter has returned to Rotherweird and has not only taken over the town but is busy destroying the countrysiders' life too. Can our small band of heroes find a way to outwit a genius whose master plan is five centuries in the making?
The sword saint, C. F. Iggulden.
Success has drawn a cold gaze. A false king seeks dominion. His soldiers will bring desolation and despair to Darien. With treachery on all sides, the ancient capital looks set to fall. Yet within the walls of that great city, a small team gathers. Tellius knows each one: a hunter, a gambler, a dead man, a wielder of threads - and the sword saint of Shiang.
Time's demon, D B Jackson.
Fifteen year-old Tobias Doljan walked back in time to prevent a war, but instead found himself trapped in an adult body, his king murdered and with an infant princess, Sofya, to protect. Now he has been joined by fellow Walker and Spanner, Mara, and together they must find a way to undo the timeline which orphaned the princess and destroyed their future.
Fresh cut, Kayette La Mane.
Two weeks. Two destinations. Another realm full of possibilities. Kira wonders if she's just imagining things, but as her dreams become more detailed and she encounters angels in real life and not just in her dreams, she presses on to search for the truth. But are angels in human form actually closer to her than she realises?
One wish, Kayette La Mane.
If Kira, a 21-year-old famous socialite in LA has everything she thought she always wanted, what could she wish for? As Kira starts to wonder if there's more meaning to life than what we can see, she doesn't expect supernatural beings to start appearing. Firstly in her dreams at night, but then as strange weather storms start to roll in, as well as angels and not-so friendly-looking dark shadows, she suddenly wants to find out what's real.
Jade war, Fonda Lee.
On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years. Beyond Kekon's borders, war is brewing. Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation.
In an absent dream, Seanan McGuire.
it is 1964. When a young girl, Katherine Lundy, finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well... for anyone.
Sophia: princess among beasts, James Patterson.
A princess who has lost her mother and father finds herself in a terrifying world that urgently needs a queen. Sophia is smart, beautiful, and accomplished, a beloved princess devoted to the people and to reading books. The kingdom is hers, until she is plunged into a nightmarish realm populated by the awful beasts she read about as a child.
The wolf's call: a raven's blade novel, Anthony Ryan.
Vaelin Al Sorna, the once-epic warrior and hero of many battles, is now the Tower Lord of the Northern Reaches. He spends his days policing the remote region against smugglers, but then he captures an assassin from the Far West. The thwarted killer tells Vaelin that the entire Far West is in peril of genocidal invasion and that the healer Sherin, now practicing her arts on the northern frontier of the lands of the Merchant Kings, will be one of the first to die.
Harmony, Lilith Saintcrow.
After an accident claims her unconventional mother, Val Smith has to live with her boring, reliable father. Val and her father visit Harmony Home, a safe, secure, and secluded place where everyone belongs to everyone else. But there are strange things there: the metal boxes in the clearing, the Red House where secrets are kept, and little Sarah, who pushes buttons inside people to "make them glow."
The rage of dragons, Evan Winter.
The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are born gifted. Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. Young and gift-less, Tau Tafari wants more than this, but his plans of escape are destroyed when those closest to him are brutally murdered.

FICTION

Purple hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt's. Here she discovers love and a life dangerous and heathen beyond the confines of her father's authority.
The thing around your neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
A collection of twelve stories includes the tale of a medical student in hiding with a poor Muslim woman, and a woman who discovers a devastating secret about her brother's death.
The Catholic school, Edoado Albinati.
In 1975, three young well-off men, former students at Rome's prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno, brutally torture, rape, and murder two young women. The event, which comes to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocks and captivates all of Italy, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion are under threat.
I am sovereign, Nicola Barker.
Charles, a forty-year-old boutique teddy bear maker and wearer of ironic t-shirts, is trying, and failing, to sell his small, characterless house in Llandudno. When Wang Shu and her daughter Ying Yue view the house, Wang Shu is mysteriously struck by a falling oyster shell; the first in a series of seemingly innocuous events distort the reality of the characters' lives and cause them to question their very existence.
Lie with me: a novel, Philippe Besson.
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he's never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school.
A constant hum, Alice Bishop.
A Constant Hum grapples with the aftermath of a devastating bushfire with an eye for telling detail. Some of these stories cut to the bone; others are empathetic stories of survival, even hope.
For such a time, Kate Breslin.
In 1944, blond and blue-eyed Hadassah Benjamin feels abandoned by God when she is saved from a firing squad only to be handed over to a new enemy. Pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, she is able to hide behind the false identity of Stella Muller. However, in order to survive and maintain her cover as Aric's secretary, she is forced to stand by as her own people are sent to Auschwitz.
The Museum of Broken Promises: enter its doors and the past will find you, Elizabeth Buchan.
Paris, today. The Museum of Broken Promises is a place of wonder and sadness, hope and loss. Every object in the museum has been donated - a cake tin, a wedding veil, a baby's shoe. And each represent a moment of grief or terrible betrayal. The museum is a place where people come to speak to the ghosts of the past and, sometimes, to lay them to rest.
The new me, Halle Butler.
Millie is a temp. When the possibility of a permanent job arises, will it bring the new life Millie is envisioning; one involving a gym membership, a book club, and a lot less beer and TV, finally within reach? Or will it reveal just how hollow that vision has become?
Hollow kingdom: a novel, Kira Jane Buxton.
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos.Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right.
Hunter's moon: a novel in stories, Philip Caputo.
Hunter's Moon is set in Michigan's wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other's lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it.
The women of Primrose Square, Claudia Carroll.
When Frank Woods at number seventy-nine Primrose Square comes home to a surprise birthday party thrown by his wife and adoring children, it is his guests who get the real surprise.
Strangers and cousins, Leah Hager Cohen.
Strangers and Cousins is about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding: a compassionate and entertaining story about family, culture, memory, community, and the permeable lines that define one's tribal identity.
The girl at the window, Rowan Coleman.
Ponden Hall is a centuries-old house on the Yorkshire moors, a magical place full of stories. It's also where Trudy Heaton grew up and where she ran away from. Now, after the devastating loss of her husband, she is returning home with her young son, Will, who refuses to believe his father is dead. While Trudy tries to do her best for her son, she must also attempt to build bridges with her eccentric mother.
How to say goodbye, Katy Colins.
No-one is ever happy to see Grace Salmon. As a funeral arranger, she's responsible for steering strangers through the hardest day of their lives. When she accidentally finds out too much about someone who's died, Grace is finally forced to step out of the shadows and start living.
The Great Emu War, Gordon Cope.
The 'war' was a mad attempt in Western Australia to use the army against a plague of emus. History becomes the background for a cast of fictional characters whose lives are changed forever by the events. Their forty year journey is a sardonic view of Australia in microcosm.
This paradise, Ruby Cowling.
This paradise is a rare and beautiful collection of stories about people fleeing towards places or times or situations they hope might be better, trying to outrun their nature, to deny the undeniable.
The Saturday Night Ghost Club, Craig Davidson.
In the 1980s, Niagara Falls is a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place. The summer Jake Baker turns twelve he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and Calvin, his Uncle, decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." As the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined.
The Chelsea girls: a novel, Fiona Davis.
Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home; a scene playwright Hazel Riley and actress Maxine Mead are determined to use to their advantage. Yet they soon discover that the greatest obstacle to putting up a show on Broadway has nothing to do with their art, and everything to do with politics.
The last book party: a novel, Karen Dukess.
Summer, 1987. Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer jumps at the chance to attend an early summer gathering at the Cape Cod home of famed New Yorker writer Henry Grey and his poet wife, Tillie. Dazzled by the guests and her burgeoning crush on the hosts' artistic son, Eve lands a new job as Grey's research assistant and an invitation to Henry and Tillie's exclusive and famed "Book Party."
Inheritance, Jenny Eclair.
In deepest Cornwall, the mansion Kittiwake has seen many pass through its doors since it was bought by American heiress Peggy Carmichael seventy years ago. Over the decades, the keys have been handed down through the family, and now it belongs to Bel's adoptive brother, Lance. It's where he'll be celebrating his 50th birthday, and Bel is invited. But Bel barely feels like she's holding it together as it is, and in going back to Kittiwake, she will be returning to the place where it all began…
In the shadow of wolves, Alvydas èlepikas.
The Second World War is drawing to a close, but the world is far from safe. Left to fend for themselves, women and children are forced out of their homes in East Prussia to make way for the advancing victors. As the Russian soldiers arrive, the women know that they are still very much in danger, and that for them, the fight for survival is only just beginning.
The end of time, Gavin Extence.
They are wearing lifejackets that are too big for them and their most precious belongings are sealed in waterproof bags tucked inside the rucksacks on their backs. Turkey is behind them and Europe lies ahead, a dark, desperate swim away. They don't know what will come next, but they're about to meet a man who does.
Stay and fight, Madeline ffitch.
This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know.
A boy and his dog at the end of the world, C. A. Fletcher.
My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, before all the people went away, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs. Then the thief came.
The woman who kept everything, Jane Gilley.
Seventy nine-old Gloria Frensham is a hoarder. She lives amongst piles of magazines, squashed cardboard boxes, surplus carpet rolls, heaps of towels and knick-knacks littering the stairs. She hasn't left her home for years, until a loud bang and a sudden smell of singeing sets in motion Gloria's unwilling exodus from her home. That day is the start of a journey that will never return Gloria back to her beloved, hoarded possessions, nor to her son's house to live.
A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers, Xiaolu Guo.
Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain.
Beirut Hellfire Society: a novel, Rawi Hage.
Picking up his late father's arrangement with an anti-religious sect that performs secret burials for marginalized outcasts, an eccentric undertaker in 1970s Beirut confronts perspectives on death in the face of war.
I who have never known men, Jacqueline Harpman.
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. A young girl; the fortieth prisoner, sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
Family of origin, CJ Hauser.
When a controversial scientist drowns while investigating his theories about evolution moving in reverse, his estranged adult children reunite to settle their late father's affairs while trying to understand the research he abandoned them to pursue.
The bookshop at water's end, Patti Callahan Henry.
Bonny Blankenship's most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend Lainey McKay. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey's mother disappeared. Now, in her early fifties, Bonny is desperate to clear her head after a tragic mistake threatens her career as an emergency room doctor, and her marriage crumbles around her.
The stories we tell: a novel, Patti Callahan Henry.
Eve and Cooper Morrison are Savannah's power couple. She owns and operates a letterpress studio specializing in the handmade; he runs a digital magazine featuring all things southern gentlemen. They have the wealth and name that comes from being part of an old Georgia family, but things may not be as good as they seem.
Expectation, Anna Hope.
Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry and the promise of everything to come. Ten years on, amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have, and each wrestles with the same question; what does it take to lead a meaningful life?
Live a little, Howard Jacobson.
Live a Little is a wickedly observed story of old age which follows the lives of two nonagenarians. Beryl Dusinbery, like Scheherazade, is telling the stories of her many husbands and love affairs to her two carers, whilst Shimi Carmelli mourns the death of his estranged brother and avoids the amorous attentions of the Widow Wolfsheim.
The cook, Maylis de Kerangal.
The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro's friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic to the point of feeling, at times, like a documentary.
The partisan heart, Gordon Kerr.
An enthralling story of love and betrayal, weaving superbly between 1999 and 1944.The sudden death of his wife has left Michael Keats bereft, the subsequent discovery of her adultery devastates him. Michael resolves to discover the identity of her lover. That journey leads him to northern Italy where he becomes embroiled in a story of passion and treachery amongst the Partisans and villagers during the darkest days of World War II.
My name is Adam, Elias Khoury.
Who is Adam Dannoun? Until a few months before his death in a fire in his New York apartment; a consequence of smoking in bed, he thought he knew. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changed all that. From Mahmoud he learned the terrible truth behind his birth, a truth withheld from him for fifty-seven years by the woman he thought was his mother.
Home for erring and outcast girls: a novel, Julie Kibler.
In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, Lizzie Bates and Mattie McBride meet at the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls.They form a friendship that will see them through unbearable loss, heartbreak, difficult choices, and ultimately, diverging paths.
Rabbits for food, Binnie Kirshenbaum.
It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist; an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer, fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment.
Adam, Anthony McDonald.
Adam is the 16-year-old most parents would love to have: he doesn't do drugs, comes top at school and regularly practises his cello. But there is another side to him, which comes to the fore when he falls for labourer Sylvain and gets sexually involved with two friends. The results are explosive in this passionate story of illicit romance and teenage angst.
Gravity is the thing: a novel, Jaclyn Moriarty.
Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson's brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail of a self-help manual, the Guidebook, whose anonymous author promised to make her life soar to heights beyond her wildest dreams.
The ex, Nicola Moriarty.
Georgia and Luke are in love. They've only been dating for a few months but Georgia is pretty sure he's the one. They get along so well; he's romantic and kind and funny. There's just one problem: Luke's ex-girlfriend, Cadence, is having trouble moving on.
The trespassers, Meg Mundell.
A thought-provoking mystery set on an ill-fated migrant ship heading to Australia in a disturbing near future. Fleeing their pandemic-stricken homelands, a shipload of migrant workers departs the UK, dreaming of a fresh start in prosperous Australia. But when a crew member is found murdered and passengers start falling gravely ill, the Steadfast is plunged into chaos.
Beneath the surface, Fiona Neill.
Grace is determined to give her daughters the idyllic childhood she never had. Teenage Lilly is everyone's golden girl, the one Grace never has to worry about, unlike ten-year- old Mia, whose wild imagination often gets her into trouble. But when Lilly suddenly collapses at school, Grace's carefully ordered world is turned upside down.
Sweet sorrow, David Nicholls.
One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran. In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope. But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person.
The vanishing hours, Barney Norris.
At a hotel bar in a quiet English town, two strangers meet by chance and share their stories. Hers is of an inconspicuous life, shaken by heartbreak and scattered with unfulfilled dreams. His is a dizzying tale of an unending quest for someone he lost in his youth. Extraordinary though his story is, what she has to reveal is even more surprising, and will take them to a place neither of them, or you, expected.
The season of change, Sheila O'Flanagan.
A holiday in paradise they'll never forget. Where do you go to solve all your problems? The beautiful White Sands resort the Caribbean sunshine works its magic just so long as its guests' troubles haven't followed them all the way to paradise.
Lies, lies, lies, Adele Parks.
Daisy and Simon's marriage is great, isn't it? After years together, the arrival of a longed-for daughter Millie sealed everything in place. A happy little family of three. Until one night at a party things spiral horribly out of control and that happy little family of three will never be the same again.
You'll never see me again, Lesley Pearse.
Young Betty dreams of settling down to an ordinary life in Hallsands with her fisherman husband. But when he returns broken and haunted from the Great War, she finds herself persecuted by his distraught mother and yearns to escape. It is only when a storm devastates the village that Betty sees her chance.
Plastic emotions, Shiromi Pinto.
Plastic Emotions is a novel based on the true life story of Minnette de Silva -forgotten feminist icon and the first female Sri Lankan architect. In a gripping, elegant and lyrical story, Shiromi Pinto paints a complex picture of de Silva, charting her affair with infamous Swiss modernist Le Corbusier and her efforts to build a post-independence Sri Lanka that is heading towards political and religious turmoil.
Nima: a novel, Adam Popescu.
Nima is a young Sherpa woman living in the foothills of the Himalayas, a range so immense and a place so isolated it is impossible to imagine anything existing beyond it. Nima and her sister are both betrothed to Norbu, a local Sherpa, but when Norbu stuns both families by only wanting to marry Nima, Nima flees her father's wrath and the destiny that had been arranged for all of them.
Asghar and Zahra, Sameer Rahim.
Asghar and Zahra are young British Muslims born in the same close-knit community in west London. They are both trying to accommodate their home culture with the world around them. But the superficial similarities between them do not tell the whole story. Their families are rivals involved in running two different mosques.
Skin, E. M. Reapy.
Natalie is uncomfortable in her own skin. Her most recent relationship is long since over and she's become disillusioned with her career as a teacher adopting a tried-and-tested attempt at self-discovery, she packs her bags to go travelling. Natalie travels to Bali, New Zealand, Australia, Dublin, rural Ireland and the Netherlands to try and find her place, but her isolation abroad only heightens her sense of unease.
Life before, Carmel Reilly.
Life Before tells the gripping story of an ordinary family caught in a terrible situation. What if the worst thing you can imagine isn't the worst thing to happen? How do you go on? And what steps will you take to protect yourself from further pain?
Chances are, Richard Russo.
Three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today. Each holds his own secrets, and are still puzzling over something that happened on a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971.
I am God, Giacomo Sartori.
Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori's I Am God is the diary of the Almighty's existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human. Not just any human, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who's certain she can improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn't even give him credit for.
A beggar's kingdom, Paullina Simons.
Is there a fate beyond the fates? Julian has failed Josephine once. Despite grave danger and impossible odds, he is determined to do the unimaginable and try again to save the woman he loves. What follows is a story like no other as the doomed lovers embark on an incredible adventure across time and space.
The boyfriend, Laura Southgate.
Erica is 17 and in her last year of high school. Donny is 42 and everywhere - in her yoga class, at German Club, in her parents' spare room. The story of a young woman who finds herself subject to the gravitational field of a charismatic man.
The remainder, Alia Trabucco Zerán.
Santiago, Chile, is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on.
The Nickel boys: a novel, Colson Whitehead.
Set in the1960s, Florida, Elwood Curtis is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South, one mistake is enough to destroy the future. He is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, where the sadistic staff beat and sexually abuse the students.
The golden hour: a novel, Beatriz Williams.
In the Bahamas, 1941, newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. As she infiltrates the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's' social circle, and the powerful cabal that controls the islands' political and financial affairs, she uncovers evidence that beneath the glister of Wallis and Edward's marriage lies an ugly-and even treasonous-reality.
Supper club: a novel, Lara Williams.
Almost thirty, Roberta is stuck in a mindless job and reluctant to pursue her passion for food. When she meets Stevie, a spirited and effervescent artist, their intense friendship sparks a change in Roberta, a shift in her desire for more. Together, they invent the Supper Club, a collective of women who gather to celebrate, rather than admonish, their hungers.
The yield, Tara June Winch.
After a decade in Europe August Gondiwindi returns to Australia for the funeral of her much-loved grandfather, Albert, at Prosperous House, her only real home and also a place of great grief and devastationas a child. Poppy was the family storyteller and August is desperate to find the precious book that he had spent his last energies compiling.
The hiding game, Naomi Wood.
In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising Charlotte. But Paul is not the only one vying for her affections, and soon an insidious rivalry takes root.

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Fatale. Book three, West of Hell, Ed Brubaker.
The dark days of the Great Depression, ancient secrets of the Middle Ages, haunted plains of the old West, and bombed out ruins of World War Two. The third book of the hit series Fatale features four interlinked stories of horror and noir, each one a puzzle piece in the mystery of the Femme Fatale.
John Constantine, Hellblazer. [21], The laughing magician, Andy Diggle.
From out of the killing fields of war-torn Sudan, a cannibalistic mage called Mako has come to England to feed on misery and to find the eternal entity known as the laughing Magician. This legendary figure is a cosmic court jester, a thumb on the scales of reality, a constant in a world of chaos and maybe, just maybe, he's none other than John Constantine himself.
X-O Manowar. [Vol. 7], Hero, Matt Kindt.
The past catches up with Earth's Visigoth guardian! Aric of Dacia may have left Planet Gorin behind, but its people still remember the ruin they felt in his wake – and so do the bounty hunters who sought to end his barbaric reign! Enraged by the blight on their perfect record, they've arrived on our world to finish the job they started – and this time, they don't plan on taking X-O Manowar alive!
The walking dead. Volume 32, Rest in peace, Robert Kirkman.
The Commonwealth and Alexandria have joined forces but at what cost to Rick?
Red Hood, outlaw. Vol. 1, Requiem for an archer, Scott Lobdell.
Having lost his partners and base of operations, Red Hood embarks on a bold, brutal new mission. Cast out and alone with a new costume, new weapons and a new and improved plan to punish scum across the DC Universe! Banished from Gotham City and estranged from the Outlaws, Red Hood takes up residence in Appleton, a would-be American town that's a secret haven for the criminal operators.
Joe Golem occult detective. [3], The drowning city, Mike Mignola.
A chilling new adventure unfolds as Joe Golem investigates the kidnapping of a conjurer and the strange men who took him. Aided by the victim's ward, a spunky teenage girl, the detective soon finds that otherworldly forces are at work. The only way to stop the madman behind the kidnapping and occult activities is to locate a strange object known as Lector's Pentajulum.
Gantz omnibus. 1, Hiroya Oku.
Gantz omnibus. 2, Hiroya Oku.
Gantz omnibus. 3, Hiroya Oku.
The last survivors of the Gantz G team confront the alluring mermaid alien who, when challenged, is far more bestial than beautiful. The team hope to earn enough points to resurrect their murdered comrades, but they risk being ripped to shreds in what seems like a certain suicide mission!
Citrus: secret love affair with sister. 10, Saburouta.
In order to live up to her family's high expectations, Mei decides to leave Yuzu and accept an arranged marriage. Though Yuzu is heartbroken, she tries to give Mei space, but when some old friends reappear, the two step-sisters are drawn together once more!
The dreaming. Volume one, Pathways and emanations, Simon Spurrier.
One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. There is a place where gods are born and stories are spun. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Twenty-three years after he was anointed as its master, the lord of dreams has inexplicably abandoned his domain. Lord Daniel's absence triggers a series of crimes and calamities that consume the lives of those already tangled in his fate.
The electric state, Simon Stålenhag.
Set in a post-apocalyptic 1997, The Electric State is the story of Michelle who, accompanied by her toy robot Skip, sets out across the western United States in a stolen car to find her missing brother.
Food wars!: shokugeki no soma. 30, The way they do things, Yuto Tsukuda.
The Regiment de Cuisine has reached its final bout! The Council sends in its two best chefs, Tsukasa and Rindo, while the resisters' hopes ride on Soma and Erina. In this battle of true gourmet between father and daughter, who will walk away the victor-Azami or Erina?!
Lucifer. Volume 1, The infernal comedy, Dan Watters.
The onetime ruler of Hell has gone missing. Lucifer is MIA. He finds himself imprisoned and crippled by mysterious forces who seek to torment him for their own terrible ends. He also happens to have no idea how he got there. This is the one true tale of what befell the Prince of Lies, the Bringer of Light Lucifer.
Cannon ball, Kesley Wroten.
Kelsey Wroten's Cannonball fires the reader straight into the messy life of Caroline Bertram: aspiring writer, queer, art school graduate, near alcoholic, and self proclaimed tortured genius. Wroten tells the story of an artist struggling with the arrival of adulthood and the Sisyphean task of artistic fulfillment.

HISTORICAL

Fortune, Lenny Bartulin.
Beginning on the day Napoleon leads his triumphant Grande Armee into Berlin through the Brandenburg Gate, Fortune traces the fates of a handful of souls whose lives briefly touch on that momentous day and then diverge across the globe. Spanning more than a century, the novel moves from the Napoleonic Wars to South America, and from the early penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land to the cannons of the First World War, mapping the reverberations of history on ordinary people.
The lily in the snow, Jackie French.
With her dangerous past behind her, Australian heiress Sophie Higgs lives in quiet comfort as the new Countess of Shillings, until Hannelore, Princess of Arneburg, charms the Prince of Wales. He orders Sophie, Nigel - and Miss Lily - to investigate the mysterious politician Hannelore insists is the only man who can save Europe from another devastating war.
The second sleep, Robert Harris.
1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts coins, fragments of glass, human bones which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth.
The golden wolf, Linnea Hartsuyker.
Ragnvald has long held to his vision of King Harald as a golden wolf who will bring peace to Norway as its conqueror. He is grateful to have his beloved sister, the fierce and independent Svanhild, once more at his side to help keep their kingdom secure. Free from the evil husband who used her, she is now one of Harald's many wives. While Svanhold is happy to be reunited with her beloved brother, and enjoys more freedom than ever before, she is restless and lonely.
Mary Ann Sate, imbecile, Alice Jolly.
Tiny, hare-lipped orphan Mary Ann Sate persecuted for her 'devil's mark' and dismissed as a half-wit is taken in by Mr Harland Cottrell as a servant in the Stroud Valleys of the 1830s. Living in total obscurity, she dies without leaving a trace, it seems, beyond a single line in the local death register 'Mary Ann Sate, 9 October 1887, Imbecile'. But Mary Ann was cleverer and more observant than those around her credited and, towards the end of her life, she took up a pen to write her own truth.
The boy with blue trousers, Carol Jones.
On the goldfields of 19th-century Australia, two very different girls are trying to escape their past. English governess Violet Hartley has fled from England after a scandalous liaison. Little Cat is fleeing from her home in Southern China after killing the powerful old man who tried to rape her. Disguised as a boy, she joins the huge Chinese workforce on the goldfields of South Australia. But the son of the murdered man is on her trail, intent on vengeance.
Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas goose, Stephanie Laurens.
Three years after being widowed, Therese, Lady Osbaldestone finally settles into her dower property of Hartington Manor in the village of Little Moseley. However, she questions whether life in a small village will generate sufficient interest to keep her amused during those months when she is not in London or visiting friends.
The Warlow experiment, Alix Nathan.
The year is 1792 and Herbert Powyss is set on making his name as a scientist. He is determined to study the effects of prolonged solitude on another human being. He fills three rooms beneath Moreham House with books, paintings and even a pianoforte, then puts out an advertisement, hoping for a gentleman recluse to claim the substantial reward.The only man desperate enough to apply is John Warlow, a semi-literate farm labourer who needs to support his wife Hannah and their six children.
A tapestry of treason, Anne O'Brien.
1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York. Surrounded by power-hungry men, including her aggressively self-centred husband Thomas and ruthless siblings Edward and Richard, Constance places herself at the heart of two treasonous plots against King Henry IV.
Pirata, Simon Scarrow.
It is AD 25. Pirate ships strike terror in the hearts of tose who brave the seas of the Roman Empire. When young Telemachus gets the chance to join the crew of the merchant ship Selene, he's delighted to escape the rough streets of Piraeus. He knows little of the storms and other dangers that have sent countless men to a watery grave, and even past hardship has not prepared him for the terror on board when a pirate ship appears on the horizon.
Snow flower and the secret fan: a novel, Lisa See.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu ("women's writing"). With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become "old sames". But when a misunderstanding arises, their lifelong friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.
Land of the afternoon sun: a novel, Barbara Wood.
Land of the afternoon sun follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move West to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. It is also the story of a woman finding her own personality and strength in the West against a breathtaking desert landscape that changes constantly.

HORROR

Song for the unraveling of the world: stories, Brian Evenson.
A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception.
Stoker's Wilde, Steven Hopstaken.
Years before either becomes a literary legend, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde must overcome their disdain for one another to battle the Black Bishop, a mysterious madman wielding supernatural forces to bend the British Empire to his will. With the help of a European vampire expert, a spirited actress and an American businessman, our heroes fight werewolves, vampires and the chains of Victorian morality.
Growing things: and other stories, Paul Tremblay.
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller, The Cabin at the End of the World, and A Head Full of Ghosts. Featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction.

MYSTERY

Terns of endearment: a Meg Langslow mystery, Donna Andrews.
Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary. The passengers' vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when they wake up to find themselves broken down and in need of repairs. Things get even worse when a crew member announces to all that a woman has jumped overboard, leaving behind her shoes, shawl, and a note.
The shameless, Ace Atkins.
Tibbehah County, Mississippi. Twenty years ago, when Brandon Taylor's body and hunting rifle were found in the Big Woods, it was labeled a suicide. Now two New York-based reporters are asking questions about the Taylor case and the missing files.
Where the dead go, Sarah Bailey.
A fifteen-year-old girl has gone missing after a party in the middle of the night. The following morning her boyfriend is found brutally murdered in his home. Was the girl responsible for the murder, or is she also a victim of the killer?
Whisper network, Chandler Baker.
Sloane, Ardie, Grace and Rosalita have worked in the same legal office for years. The sudden death of the firm's CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Ames is a complicated man, a man they've all known for a long time, a man who's always been surrounded by whispers. But the women are watching this latest promotion for Ames differently.
Lost you: a novel, Haylen Beck.
Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing career. Now for the first time in years, things are looking up. She's just sold her first novel, and she and Ethan are going on a much-needed vacation. Everything seems to be going their way, so why can't she stop looking over her shoulder or panicking every time Ethan wanders out of view? Is it because of what happened when Ethan was born?
Layover, David Bell.
Joshua Fields life is a series of departures and arrivals, hotels and airports. During yet another layover, he meets Morgan, a beautiful stranger with whom he feels an immediate connection. As soon as Morgan disappears in the crowd, Joshua is shocked to see her face on a nearby TV. The reason: Morgan is a missing person.
Court of killers: a Daniel Pike novel, William Bernhardt.
The court of public opinion found her guilty. But one attorney resolved to change the verdict & help. Attorney Daniel Pike knows the dire consequences of crossing the government. So when rising political star Camila Perez faces charges in a gruesome quadruple homicide, his instincts sense a frame by powerful rivals.
Girl at midnight, Katarzyna Bonda.
For seven years, Sasza Zaluska has lived with her little girl in the north of England, far from her previous job as an undercover cop. She has studied to become a psychological profiler and she soon picks up a freelance job to check out some threats made against the owner of a nightclub. No sooner has Sasza visited the club than a man is murdered there and Sasza finds herself drawn back towards the world she left behind.
Drowned lives, Stephen Booth.
When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding help in healing a decades-old family rift, he sends the stranger away. But then the old man is murdered. As Chris begins to look into the circumstances of the murder, he uncovers a deadly secret in the silt and mud of the local canals that he'll realise was better kept buried.
Love and death among the cheetahs, Rhys Bowen.
Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment.
Tell me everything: a novel, Cambria Brockman.
In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit circle that will stick together through all four years. By Senior Day, on the cusp of graduation, Malin's secrets and those of her friends are revealed. While she scrambles to maintain her artfully curated image, her missteps set in motion a devastating chain of events that ends in a murder.
Outfox, Sandra Brown.
One man with multiple identities. Eight women who vanished without a trace. The next likely victim his wife. FBI agent Drex Easton is driven by a single goal: to outmaneuver the conman once known as Weston Graham.
A stranger on the beach, Michele Campbell.
There is a stranger outside Caroline's spectacular new beach house. Her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aidan, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline and her husband have a very public fight, it doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary. As her marriage collapses around her and the lavish lifestyle she's built for herself starts to crumble, Caroline turns to Aidan for comfort and revenge.
Those people, Louise Candlish.
Could you hate your neighbour enough to plot to kill him? Lowland Way is the suburban dream. But when Darren and Jodie move into the house on the corner, they don't follow the rules. They blast music at all hours, begin an unsightly renovation, and run a used-car business from their yard.Then, a horrific death shocks the street. As police search for witnesses, accusations start flying, and everyone has something to hide.
Hunting evil, Chris Carter.
As roommates, they met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from Stamford Psychology University. As adversaries, they met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter had become the head of the LAPD's Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Lucien Folter had become the most prolific and dangerous serial killer the FBI had ever encountered.
Whatever it takes, Paul Cleave
When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from. Finding the girl safe isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his wife, and from being kicked out of Acacia Pines.
Keep you close: a novel, Karen Cleveland.
She knows her teenage son isn't perfect. But when the FBI starts investigating the kid she thought she knew, will she jeopardize her own career at the Bureau to keep her child safe?
Bakerton, Phil Clinker.
Nothing ever happens in Bakerton until one of the country's richest bankers is brutally murdered in his mansion, along with some of his associates. When Sheriff John Withers begins his investigation, he is horrified to learn that a federal agent has also been assigned to the case. Withers soon discovers that he is seeking two separate killers, one of whom has apparently been dead for four years.
I looked away, Jane Corry.
Every Monday Ellie looks after her 4-year-old grandson Josh. The only thing that can mar her happiness is her husband's affair. Then one day, while she's looking after Josh, her husband gets a call from that woman and in a moment of pure rage, Ellie takes her eyes off her grandson. The accident that happens will change Ellie's life forever. Not least when the police discover that her younger brother died in similar circumstances thirty-five years ago.
Labyrinth, Catherine Coulter.
On a Tuesday afternoon, Agent Sherlock is driving in downtown Washington when her Volvo is suddenly T-boned at an intersection. As her car spins out of control, a man's body slams against her windshield and then - blackness. When she finally regains consciousness in the hospital, she's told about the accident and the man she struck. No one knows yet who he is or where he is because he ran away.
What she saw last night, MJ Cross.
Jenny Bowen is going home. Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper, all she wants to do is forget about her upcoming divorce and relax on the ten-hour journey through the night. In her search for her cabin, Jenny helps a panicked woman with a young girl she assumes to be her daughter. Waking in the night, Jenny discovers the woman dead in her cabin but there's no sign of the little girl.
A capitol death, Lindsey Davis.
A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum in the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome. While it looks like a suicide, one witness swears that she saw it happen and that he was pushed.
The other Mrs. Miller, Allison Dickson.
Two women are watching each other. Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house?
Almost midnight, Paul Doiron.
While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he had to reluctantly put behind bars for murder. Billy wants him to investigate a new female prison guard with a mysterious past. When the guard becomes the victim in a brutal attack at the prison, he realizes there may be a darker cover-up at play and that Billy and his family might be at risk.
Platform Seven, Louise Doughty.
Two deaths on Platform Seven at Peterborough Railway Station. Two fatalities in eighteen months; surely they're connected? No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die.
Targeted, Kendra Elliot.
On his quiet fishing trip, Detective Mason Callahan finds the body of his boss, Denny Schefte, near their remote Oregon cabin. The FBI assigns the case to Special Agent Ava McLane, Mason's fiancé, when they learn of the mask left at the scene. The FBI realizes that they are hunting a serial killer that targets police officers.
Worst case scenario, Helen Fitzgerald.
Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation offer, dealing with some of Glasgow's worst cases. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife. Liam is released on licence into Mary's care and she develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world. When her son and Liam's daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice with devastating consequences.
Minotaur, Peter Goldsworthy.
Left blind after a bullet wound to the head two years before Detective Sergeant Rick Zadow is caught up in a workers' compensation battle between two psychiatrists; one acting for him, and one appointed by WorkCover, over how much compo he should be awarded. Then there is a breakout from jail of the man who shot him, and who is seeking to finish the job.
The sanctuary murders: the twenty-fourth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew, Susanna Gregory.
In 1360 Edward III issues a call to arms, as sporadic attacks by the French threaten to turn into a full-blown invasion. In Cambridge, fear of the enemy is magnified by the belief that foreign agents are lurking in the area. Then the first murder occurs; of a French scholar living in the town.
Snake Island, Ben Hobson.
Vernon and Penelope Moore never want to see their son Caleb again. Not after he hit his wife and ended up in jail. But when Vernon hears that Caleb is being regularly visited and savagely bashed by a local criminal as the police stand by, he realises he has to act.
A grave for two, Anne Holt.
Selma Falck's personal life and career as a lawyer have hit rock bottom. That is until Hege Chin Morell; Norway's best female skier, approaches her desperate to overturn a doping charge. With two months to the Winter Olympics, Selma faces the seemingly almost impossible task of clearing Morell's name. However, when a male skier is found dead after a training accident, it becomes clear to Selma that there is something more serious at risk.
Never have I ever: a novel, Joshilyn Jackson.
Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it. But Amy's sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when the mysterious and alluring Angelica Roux arrives on her doorstep one book club night. Roux beguiles the group and lures them into a game of spilling secrets.She seems to know the terrible truth about who Amy is and what she once did.
The family upstairs, Lisa Jewell.
In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They've been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go?
Smokescreen, Iris Johansen.
A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village where half the villagers have been killed in a horrific attack by guerilla soldiers, the bodies burned beyond recognition. Now, the families desperately need Eve's help to get closure. But when Eve arrives in the remote jungle, she begins to suspect that Jill's plea may have been a cover story for a deeper, more sinister plot.
I spy, Claire Kendal.
Holly Lawrence always wanted to be a spy, but the experience proved more dangerous than anything she imagined. Now, Holly lives under an assumed name, hiding from the man who nearly destroyed her life. She avoids relationships and trusts no one. But Holly's new life begins to unravel when she encounters a young mother and her two-year-old child: a child who reminds her of a past she has tried hard to forget.
A secret life, Christobel Kent.
When Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night, she intends to have fun, to behave like the Georgie she was before marriage and motherhood changed her life. But one drink too many and Georgie's not sure what happened the night before. Now she's starting to wonder just what she's invited into her life.
The sleepwalker, Joseph Knox.
As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job -to extract the location of Martin Wick's final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away.
The dirty dozen, Lynda La Plante.
April 1980 and Jane is the first female detective to be posted to the Met's renowned Flying Squad, commonly known as the 'Sweeney'. Based at Rigg Approach in East London, they investigate armed robberies on banks, cash in transit and other business premises.
Someone we know, Shari Lapena.
It's a quiet suburb in upstate New York, until anonymous letters start to arrive. "My son broke into your home recently while you were out." Into their homes, and into their computers as well. Learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. When a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they're telling? and how far will all these very nice people go to protect their own secrets?
The American candidate, M. J. Lee.
July 23, 1942. Wielodz, Poland. A sleepy village is invaded by a detachment of the Waffen SS. April 17, 2017. London, England. Jayne Sinclair, genealogical investigator, is tasked to research the family history of a potential candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America. A man whose grandfather had emigrated to the country seventy years before. When the politician who commissioned the genealogical research is shot dead in front of her, Jayne is forced to flee for her life.
The Sinclair betrayal, M. J. Lee.
Jayne Sinclair is back and this time she's investigating her own family history. There are just too many secrets she would prefer to stay hidden. She is forced to face up to the biggest secret of all; her father is still alive. Even worse, he is in prison for the cold-blooded killing of an old civil servant. A killing supposedly motivated by the betrayal and death of his mother decades before.
The vanished child, M. J. Lee.
On her deathbed, Freda Duckworth confesses to giving birth to an illegitimate child in 1944 and placing him in a children's home. Seven years later she returned but he had vanished. What happened to the child? Why did he disappear? Where did he go? Jayne Sinclair, genealogical investigator, is faced with lies, secrets and one of the most shameful episodes in recent history as she attempts to uncover the truth.
Bones don't lie, Melinda Leigh.
Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago. Since then he's lived under the weight of that disappearance until his father's car is finally dredged up from the bottom of Grey Lake. It should be a time for closure, except for the skeleton found in the trunk. A missing person case gone cold has become one of murder, and Lance and attorney Morgan Dane must face the deadly past that's risen to the surface.
Lady in the lake: a novel, Laura Lippman.
In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know; everyone, that is, except Madeline 'Maddie' Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl; assistance that leads to a job at the city's afternoon newspaper, the Star.
The July girls, Phoebe Locke.
Every year, on the same night in July, a woman is taken from the streets of London; snatched by a killer who moves through the city like a ghost. Addie has a secret. On the morning of her tenth birthday, four bombs were detonated across the capital. That night her dad came home covered in blood. She thought he was hurt in the attacks but then her sister Jessie found a missing woman's purse hidden in his room. Jessie says they mustn't tell.
The peat dead, Allan Martin.
On the Scottish Hebridean Island of Islay, five corpses are dug up by a peat-cutter. All of them have been shot in the back of the head, execution style. Sent across from the mainland to investigate, Inspector Angus Blue and his team slowly piece together the little evidence they have, and discover the men were killed on a wartime base, over 70 years ago.
The poison garden, Alex Marwood.
Where Romy grew up, if someone died you never spoke of them again. Now 22, she has recently escaped the toxic confines of the cult she was raised in. But Romy is young, pregnant and completely alone and if she is to keep herself safe in this new world, she has some important lessons to learn. Like how there are some people you can trust, and some you must fear.
Betrayal in time: a Kendra Donovan mystery, Julie McElwain.
February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church and a horrific discovery. Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue cut out.
The roadhouse, Kerry McGinnis.
When aspiring actress Charlie Carver learns that her cousin Annabelle has died, she immediately leaves Melbourne to fly home to the remote family roadhouse east of Alice Springs.Her mother,Molly, suffers a heart attack. With her mother airlifted out for life-saving surgery, Charlie is left to take the reins of the struggling family business, alongside friends old and new, including the captivating local stockman Mike.
The wolf wants in: a novel, Laura McHugh.
Sadie Keller is determined to find out how her brother died, even if no one else thinks it's worth investigating. Untimely deaths are all too common in rural Blackwater, Kansas, where crime and overdoses are on the rise, and the small-town police force is consumed with the recent discovery of a child's skull in the woods.
The Chain, Adrian McKinty.
The morning starts like any other. Rachel Klein drops her daughter, Kylie, at the bus stop and heads into her day. But then a phone call changes everything. A woman has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will ever see her again is if she pays a ransom and kidnaps another child.
A breath on dying embers: a D.C.I. Daley thriller, Denzil Meyrick.
When the luxury cruise ship Great Britain berths in Kinloch harbour, the pressure mounts on D.C.I. Jim Daley. The high-powered international delegates on board are touring the country, golfing and sightseeing, as part of a UK Government trade mission. But within hours, one of the crew members vanishes and a local birdwatcher is missing.
The reunion: a novel, Guillaume Musso.
The Côte d'Azur, 25 years ago: One freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell, the most beautiful and glamorous girl in her prep school, runs away with her philosophy teacher, with whom she has been conducting a secret affair. She will never be seen What really happened that long-ago winter night? Now nothing stands in the way of the truth coming out.again.
No time to cry, James Oswald.
Returning to their base of operations, DC Constance finds the bloodied body of her boss, and friend, DI Pete Copperthwaite. He's been executed a single shot to the head.In the aftermath, it seems someone in the Met is determined to make sure that blame for the wrecked operation falls squarely on Con's shoulders.
The inn, James Patterson.
The Inn at Gloucester stands alone on the rocky New England shoreline. Its seclusion suits former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, novice owner and innkeeper. Yet all too soon Robinson dicovers that leaving the city is no escape from the dangers he left behind. A new crew of deadly criminals move into the small town, bringing drugs and violence to the front door of the inn.
The warning, James Patterson.
A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed cellular networks fail to resume service. Animals savagely attack humans, and the damaged power plant, where Jordan's father is an engineer, is under military lockdown.
The need: a novel, Helen Phillips.
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. Then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement. Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family.
The Dutch shoe mystery, Ellery Queen.
Ellery Queen is invited by his friend, a doctor, to witness an operation. The patient who is about to undergo the delicate procedure is Abagail Doorn, the richest and most famous woman in America. But when the sheet is removed, it reveals Ms. Doorn's corpse, strangled to death with a picture wire. Who among the attendees was ruthless enough to carry out this gruesome operation? It's up to Ellery Queen to uncover the clues and find out.
A family of strangers, Emilie Richards.
All her life, Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Now her sister Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband, while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment. The sisters' choices have taken them in different directions, which is why Ryan is stunned when Wendy calls, begging for her help. There's been a murder and Wendy believes she'll be wrongfully accused.
Tightrope, Marnie Riches.
What happens when a private investigator ends up being the one uncovered? Having lost everything after a failed marriage, Beverley Sanders begins to do investigative work for other wronged women. Beverley takes on a case but soon discovers that she isn't the only one who doing the investigating. Beverley has a secret history she doesn't want coming out.
Good girl bad girl, Michael Robotham.
A girl is found hiding in a secret room in a house being renovated after a terrible crime. For weeks, she has survived by sneaking out at night, stealing food for herself and two dogs that are kept in the garden. She doesn't appear on any missing person's file, or match the DNA of any murder victim. Six years later, still unidentified, the same girl is living in a secure children's home with a new name.
Lock every door, Riley Sager.
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents. These are the only rules for Jules Larson's new job as apartment sitter for an elusive resident of the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile private buildings and home to the rich and famous. However, the Bartholomew is not what it seems and there is a dark history hidden beneath its gleaming façade.
Laetitia Rodd and the case of the wandering scholar, Kate Saunders.
It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return.
High white sun, J. Todd Scott.
In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry now Sheriff Cherry is the new "law" in Big Bend County, yet he still struggles to escape the long, dark shadow of that infamous lawman. As Chris tries to remake and modernize his corrupt department, bringing in new deputies he finds himself constantly staring down a town unwilling to change, friends and enemies unable to let go of the past, and the harsh limits of his badge.
The far empty, J. Todd Scott.
Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift following the sudden disappearance of his mother over a year ago. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff's deputy, a high school football hero who's reluctantly returned to his hometown. When skeletal remains are discovered in the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together as their efforts to uncover Murfee's darkest secrets lead them to the same terrifying suspect.
Thunder Bay, Douglas Skelton.
When reporter Rebecca Connolly is told of Roddie Drummond's return to the island of Stoirm she senses a story. Fifteen years before he was charged with the murder of his lover, Mhairi. When he was found Not Proven, Roddie left the island and no one, apart from his sister, knew where he was or what he was doing. Now he has returned for his mother's funeral and it will spark an explosion of hatred, bitterness and violence.
The bone fire, S D Sykes.
It's 1361 and Plague has returned to England. In an attempt to flee the approaching danger, Oswald de Lacy escorts his family from their estate of Somershill in Kent, to a remote island castle situated in the tidal mud flats of Romney Marsh. It seems the de Lacys have kept one step ahead of the contagion, but soon they discover that this castle is no safe haven from death. As a murderer strikes, they find themselves trapped in this lonely outpost with a killer.
This poison will remain, Fred Vargas.
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. It isn't long before Adamsberg is investigating a series of rumours and allegations that take him to the south of France.
The turn of the key, Ruth Ware.
It seems too good to be true: a live-in nanny post, with a staggeringly generous salary. When Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten by the luxurious "smart" home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare which will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
The disappearance, Katherine Webb.
When Frances' best friend Bronwyn disappeared over twenty years ago, her body was never found. The mystery over what happened has cast a shadow over Frances' life ever since. Now, it's 1942 and bombs are raining down on Bath. But bombs conceal, and they reveal and as quiet falls and the dust settles, a body is disturbed from its hiding place. What happened all those years ago and can Frances put the wrongs of the past right again?
The truants, Kate Weinberg.
Jess Walker has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour. Drawn into a tightly-knit group of rule breakers; led by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay, Jess begins to experiment with a new version of herself. But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets, lovers and finally a tragedy.
Death in a desert land: a novel, Andrew Wilson.
Baghdad, 1928. Agatha Christie has travelled to the excavation of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur to investigate an unsolved mystery: two years ago, the explorer and writer Gertrude Bell died there from a drug overdose. At the time, authorities believed that Bell had taken her own life, but a letter recently unearthed reveals she was afraid someone intended to kill her.
The paper bark tree mystery, Ovidia Yu.
Su Lin is doing her dream job: assistant at Singapore's brand new detective agency. Bald Bernie then decides a 'local girl' can't be trusted with private investigations, and replaces her with a new secretary; pretty, privileged, and white. So Su Lin's not the only person finding it hard to mourn Bernie after he's found dead in the filing room. When Su Lin's best friend's dad is accused, she gets up to some sleuthing work of her own in a bid to clear his name.

New Zealand Fiction

Beyond the bay, Rebecca Burns.
Auckland at the turn of the century. A city on the cusp of change. Isobel, a settler of ten years, waits for her sister to cross the ocean to join her. Separated by distance, disappointments and secrets, the women reunite in a land where the rules of home do not apply. Women push for the vote and the land offers opportunity and a future for those brave enough to take it. But some secrets run too deep, some changes too shocking to embrace.
Nailing down the saint, Craig Cliff.
Duncan Blake is a Kiwi filmmaker whose move to LA has not gone to plan. After a series of setbacks he gets the chance to scout locations for a fôted director's biopic of Saint Joseph of Copertino, it's the lifeline he's been searching for. But in Italy, in the footsteps of the seventeenth-century levitator, he must confront miracles, madness and the realities of modern movie making.
Juno and Hannah, Beryl Fletcher.
1920, deep in the New Zealand bush, a settlement of Christian fundamentalists live a life of austerity and isolation. It is a place where there is little space for compassion, particularly for the women who can never rid themselves of Eve's original sin. Sisters Juno and Hannah have grown up in the community, but when a stranger washes up on the river bank and Hannah goes to his aid, she finds herself accused of necromancy.
The Beacon project, Toby Fraser
Nanotech entrepreneur Ryan Trishler and retired Soviet general Alexander Volkov come from very different worlds. One man uses technology to avoid senseless deaths on the battlefield, the other profiting from wartime brutality wherever it happens. The Beacon Project is both high-octane thriller and moving family drama, a story that shows the stark choices powerful men make, and the razor-thin line between good and evil.
Invasion: New Zealand, 1942, Don E. McGregor.
New Zealand staggers under the impact of a surprise Japanese invasion and occupation that seem unstoppable. Hasty defensive measures are taken by the authorities. Many kiwis "go hush" and form a resistance movement of sorts. Women step in and join the fight at home …
Out of the inferno, Ross Meurant
Three men who grew up in the same little country town find themselves at the heart of a national crisis. One a gang member. One a cop. One an MP. Former police detective & inspector, National Party MP, entrepreneur adventurer, and now writer, Ross Meurant's latest novel draws on a world of experience at the heart of international trade, diplomacy, policing and politics to weave a tale about the treachery that's brought "God's Own Country" to its knees.
Dry milk, Huo Yan.
John Lee is a lonely and increasingly misanthropic Chinese migrant who has lived in Auckland for thirty years, running a second-hand junk shop while maintaining a relationship of disdain with his disabled wife. When he becomes infatuated with a young international student who lodges in their house, and puts his life savings behind a scheme to export powdered milk to China, the dubious balance with which he has held his life together comes apart, and feelings of alienation and humiliation begin to spiral out of control.

ROMANCE

A truly perfect gentleman, Grace Burrowes.
Grey Dorning, Earl of Casriel, must marry well and soon. He has five unmarried brothers whom he should assist to get a start in life, any number of tenant cottages threatening to fall apart, and he's running out of time to set the earldom to rights. He needs an agreeable heiress looking for a title, a lady who will be content to marry a man more renowned for his manners than his fortune.
The girl he used to know, Tracey Garvis Graves.
Annika Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess. Jonathan Hoffman joined the chess club and lost his first game, and his heart, to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and beautiful Annika. He admires her ability to be true to herself, and accepts the challenges involved in pursuing a relationship with her.
The wedding party, Jasmine Guillory.
Maddie and Theo have two things in common: 1. Alexa is their best friend 2. They hate each other. With Alexa's wedding rapidly approaching, Maddie and Theo both share bridal party responsibilities that require more interaction with each other than they're comfortable with.
The idea of love, Patti Callahan Henry.
When Hunter and Ella meet in Watersend, South Carolina, it feels like something close to fate. In Ella, Hunter finds the perfect love story, the stuff of epic films. In Hunter, Ella finds possibility, an opportunity to live out a fantasy. So what' a little white lie between strangers?
Ellie and the harpmaker, Hazel Prior.
Dan Hollis lives a happy, solitary life carving exquisite Celtic harps in his barn in the countryside of the English moors. On the anniversary of her beloved father's death, Ellie Jacobs takes a walk in the woods and comes across Dan's barn. She is enchanted by his collection. Ellie begins visiting Dan almost daily and he gives her a fresh perspective on her own life.
The things I know, Amanda Prowse.
Thomasina 'Hitch' Waycott loves living and working on the remote family farm and B&B. But she also wants more - to see the world, to own her own home and to fall in love. Her deformed lip, her crooked limbs and her weak heart have kept her from taking chances. When Grayson Potts comes to stay, he's unlike anyone Thomasina has ever met. He's aloof, eccentric and exceptionally kind. He's also totally unconcerned with the physical flaws that have always defined Thomasina.

SAGA

Ruby, Meg Henderson.
The MacLean's are railway people, hard working and respectable, but with their fair share of eccentrics and troubles.
Between the regions of kindness, Alice Jolly.
Coventry, 1941. The morning after one of the worst nights of the Blitz. Twenty-two-year-old Rose enters the remains of a bombed house to find her best friend dead. Shocked and confused, she makes a split-second decision that will reverberate for generations to come.
Ask again, yes, Mary Beth Keane.
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren't close friends on the job, but end up living next door to each other outside the city. This is a beautiful exploration of love that blossoms between Francis's youngest daughter, Kate, and Brian's son, Peter, who are born six months apart.
The secret hours, Santa Montefiore.
On the death of Arethusa Clayton, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa wants her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland. Who were her family in Ireland and where are they now? What was the real reason that she turned away from them? and who is the mysterious benefactor of a significant share of Arethusa's estate?
The Quality Street girls, Penny Thorpe.
At sixteen years old, Rene Calder is leaving school with little in the way of qualifications. Fearing a life in service is all she can hope for, she lands a seasonal job at Mackintosh's Quality Street factory. When a shocking accident damages the production line, will Rene be able to prove herself and keep her job and can the whole community pull together make this a Quality Street Christmas.

SCIENCE FICTION

The Eagle has landed: 50 years of lunar science fiction, Neil Clarke.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke.
Pass of fire, Taylor Anderson.
Time is running out for the Grand Human and Lemurian Alliance. The longer they take to prepare for their confrontations with the reptilian Grik, the Holy Dominion, and the League of Tripoli, the stronger their enemies become. Ready or not, they have to move – or the price in blood will break them.
The redemption of time, Baoshu.
In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction.
Stranger Things. Suspicious minds, Gwenda Bond.
It's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad. The world is changing, and when word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code named MKULTRA.
Exhalation, Ted Chiang.
An alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in 'The Lifecycle of Software Objects', a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being.
This is how you lose the time war, Amal El-Mohtar.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more.
The warming, Craig Ensor.
The year is 2221 and the world is dying. Temperatures soar as high as fifty degrees and sea levels are rising year by year. The population has fallen to below 2 billion people. The ruined cities of the north; Sydney, Brisbane and beyond, were abandoned. In an isolated coastal town south of Sydney, Finch Taylor is captivated by the mysterious beauty April Speare and her pianist husband William when they move into a nearby beach house with a piano and a tragic secret.
Star Wars. Master & apprentice, Claudia Gray.
A Jedi must be a fearless warrior, a guardian of justice, and a scholar in the ways of the Force. But perhaps a Jedi's most essential duty is to pass on what they have learned. Master Yoda trained Dooku; Dooku trained Qui-Gon Jinn; and now Qui-Gon has a Padawan of his own. But while Qui-Gon has faced all manner of threats and danger as a Jedi, nothing has ever scared him like the thought of failing his apprentice.
Polaris rising: a novel, Jessie Mihalik.
When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars. Ada eluded her father's forces for two years, but now her luck has run out.
River of night, John Ringo.
Tom Smith is now just another refugee, fleeing the smoking ruins of civilization. Late of the Bank of the Americas where he used to be the global managing director for Security, Tom and his fellow survivors watched New York City burn. His plan to the save New York long enough to find a cure for the zombie virus hadn't survived the bloody scrimmage between angry cops, cunning gangsters, and rapacious City officials.
Howling dark, Christopher Ruocchio.
For half a century, Hadrian Marlowe has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries. Determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly four hundred years of war, Hadrian must venture beyond the security of the Sollan Empire and among the Extrasolarians who dwell between the stars.
Hood. Season one, Lilith Saintcrow.
The Great Migration was centuries ago; two generation ships reached the Anglene galaxy with its clutch of terraform-suitable planets and performed their work. Now Anglene is smoldering; the galactic insurrection is supposed to be crushed.
Resurrection of the Daleks, Eric Saward.
The TARDIS is ensnared in a time corridor, catapulting it into derelict docklands on 20th century Earth. The Doctor and his companions, Tegan and Turlough, stumble on a warehouse harbouring fugitives from the future at the far end of the corridor and are soon under attack from a Dalek assault force.
Kris Longknife. Admiral, Mike Shepherd.
Admiral Kris Longknife should have known the job offer was too good to be true. Still, she jumped at the chance to be the first human emissary to the Iteeche Empire. Only when she got there and met the Emperor, a teenage kid swamped by his throne, did Kris find out that there was a little civil war going on in the Iteeche Empire.
Kris Longknife. Emissary, Mike Shepherd.
Kris Longknife has discovered that this desk job is not at all what she expected. Being desk bound hasn't even decreased the number of assassination attempts! Then Kris gets home to find her two kids playing with an Iteeche. Ron has come back to human space with a request. Should Kris honour it?
Alpha and omega, Harry Turtledove.
What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true? It is certainly the last thing Eric Katz; a secular archaeologist from Los Angeles, expects to discover during what should be a routine dig in Jerusalem. But perhaps higher forces have something else in mind.
The last astronaut, David Wellington.
Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she now lives in semi retirement, convinced her days in space are over. She's wrong. A large alien object has entered the solar system and is now poised above the Earth.
Wanderers: a novel, Chuck Wendig.
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. She is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and are sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey.
Treason, Timothy Zahn.
"If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance." Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to Emperor Palpatine at their first meeting. Since then, Thrawn has been one of the Empire's most effective instruments, pursuing its enemies to the very edges of the known galaxy. But as keen a weapon as Thrawn has become, the Emperor dreams of something far more destructive.