Molly’s entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the Regency Grand to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her…
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- It’s Hester’s fortieth birthday when she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer, and she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. She hasn’t made it far when she runs into John, an…
- Tomahawk Shields (a.k.a. Tommy) and Clinton Whiteway are on the cusp of adulthood, imagining a future rife with possibility and greatness. The two friends play for their high school’s poor-performing hockey team, who learn at the start of the new…
- This novel is a wry, propulsive, exquisitely observed story of a singularly eccentric family and the sibling rivalry, generational divides, and long-buried secrets that shape them.
- Burnt-out from a demanding job and a bustling life in the city, Emelie has left town to spend a few days in the country. Once there, she encounters a mysterious group of seven people, each with personal stories full of pain, alienation, and the…
- Mitch Caddo is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck, he runs the government of the Passage Rouge Nation, and with it, the tribe’s Golden Eagle Casino and Hotel. On…
- A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year’s Eve. It is Benjamin’s birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery themed party. In the morning, all of them wake up -- except Benjamin. As Abigail attempts to wrap…
- A mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo’s apartment with some news: his grandmother Perihan has died, and Riccardo has inherited her villa in Milan along with her famed butterfly collection. The struggling writer is out of options. He’s hoping…
- Widower Mimi lives on idyllic Mackinac Island. Her granddaughter Addie is getting over the heartbreak of her fiancé Brian dumping her and cutting her out of the deal for the brilliantly successful video game, Murderscape, they invented together.…
- In Donegal, Ireland, 1973, a baby boy is found on the beach of a close-knit fishing village. After the baby has been carried through the crowd of onlookers, fisherman Ambrose Bonnar -- a man of great bulk, and great heart -- offers to bring the…
- In the Jewish East End of post-WWI London, Bea, a young shopkeeper’s wife, is visited by an uncanny figure she believes is an angel. She tries to understand the meaning of these visits as the life she is building with her new husband is threatened…
- James is alone in his newly discovered sexuality, full of an unruly desire but entirely inexperienced. As he is beginning to understand himself and his longings, he also realizes how his feelings threaten to separate him from his family and the…
- Freya, Callum, Mischa, and Victoria have nothing in common, except for one thing: they’ve each experienced a deep personal loss that has led them to an unconventional group meeting, every Tuesday night. A meeting they’ve been particularly selected…
- Derrymore Academy circa 2007 is home to teenagers who have their eyebrows shaped and their sweet 16s tented. Their first kisses arrive around the same time as their boating licenses. It is here that Emery Hooper, adopted at birth into the country…
- Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn’t told Ryan about, and Ryan has an alcohol addiction he hasn’t told Lillian about, so Georgette comes of age…
- On a bus moving across a rural landscape, from town to dusty town, two young people are escaping with their lives. She has committed a crime for which there will be retribution. He is staggering from a sudden loss. These two will find each other and…
- All Sid Solvang wanted was to use his culinary ambition to reinvent his grandfather’s Brooklyn deli. What he didn't expect was for his pretentious plates to run him out of business, ruin the family name, and shut the iconic establishment down for…
- Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides. But none of that seems so terrible when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: in the early months of 2020, her sister Delilah was pushed…
- After discovering that her fiancé has been cheating on her with someone from his improv class, Lucy finds herself short on funds and desperate for a change of scenery. Enter a most unusual job opportunity: a Bearer of Bad News. Sure, it’s a little…
- Mickey and Arlo are half-sisters. But they’ve never spoken and never met. Arlo adored her father - but always lived in the shadow of his magnetic personality and burdensome vices. Mickey never knew her father. He abandoned her and her mother years…
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