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  • av Thao Votang
    396

    Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese American Linh Ly s unraveling as she reckons with the traumas of both her past and present.

  • av Rachel McGuire
    396

    "A YouTubing cruiser couple sails the world living their best lives, until one of them goes missing and their whole world capsizes, in this captivating psychological thriller perfect for fans of Something in the Water and Saint X. Sawyer Stone III and Dani Fox, a young couple who spend their time circumnavigating the globe aboard their 42' sailboat and documenting it for their fledgling YouTube channel Sailing with the Foxes, have anchored in Exuma, in the Bahamas. As they wait for the price of crypto to rebound so they can provision and continue their journey, they're partying and exploring with their fellow cruisers off-shore. On the surface, everything looks perfect. But one night, Dani vanishes after a boat party, and Sawyer has no memory of her disappearance. The search for Dani is initially fueled by concerns that she drowned during one of her daily ocean swims, but Dani's prescheduled video posts, recorded before she went missing, soon reveal a darker side to her relationship with Sawyer. Meanwhile, Royal Bahamas Police Force Inspector Veronique Knowles has her hands full trying to keep the investigation on course as the story of the American woman missing in the Bahamas goes viral and the internet sleuths unearth secrets from Sawyer's past. Sawyer Stone is far from perfect, but is he a murderer?" --

  • Spar 17%
    av Janie Kim
    340,-

    "Abby Rodier was a "drop-box baby," a Korean orphan whose mother could not take care of her and left her as an infant. Abby's tumultuous experience in the American foster care system has led her to live a solitary and guarded life, closed off to almost everyone except her best friend Iseul, whose parents took Abby into their home as a child. Abby's work studying the origins of life in sea slugs and bacteria leads her to wonder about her birth parents and question her place in this world. It's not long before Abby stumbles upon a biological discovery that will change the course of her life. Meanwhile, Iseul's devotion to their ill brother leads to an entanglement between her work as an investigative journalist and the murky world of black-market medicine. After a tragic event, Abby's life is thrown into a tailspin. With the rug pulled from under her feet, she spirals into a disorientation of grief, apparitions, and compulsions. With the help of those around her, Abby must embark on a journey to understand her true roots and make peace with her present."--Provided by publishers.

  • Spar 17%
    av Ayla Rose
    340,-

    "Returning to her Vermont hometown to reopen the inn she co-owns with her sister, Reggie, Hannah, with Reggie going off the rails, finds a friend in an 80-year-old recluse, but when he's found dead on her property, she discovers that secrets lurk beneath the charming surface of the town she once again calls home"--

  • Spar 17%
    av Corinne Masur
    340,-

    Understand how children process grief at every age and stage of development in this accessible guide for parents and caretakers.An award-winning childhood grief expert shares clinically-informed advice for supporting kids and teens through difficult times—from family deaths and lost pets to unexpected moves, and beyond.A necessary and impactful guide to understanding children's grief from the inside and to guiding children through loss, from the death of a parent and other family members, to the loss of friends, pets, and even the family home. Dr. Masur, an award-winning clinical psychologist specializing in grief and mourning, describes how to understand, help, and guide children at each age and stage of development and uses her own childhood experience with loss through empathetic yet clinically informed advice.When Dr. Masur was fourteen years old, her father died. Like most children and teens facing loss, Masur didn’t know how to handle her grief, and she was never encouraged to acknowledge or share what she was feeling with her family, teachers, or friends. Her experience of shock and emotional paralysis around her loss is what led her to become an expert in childhood grief in order to help grieving children and to help others to support the children in their lives who have experienced loss. As a psychologist and child psychoanalyst, Dr. Masur has helped many children recognize and express their feelings after loss. In How Children Grieve, Masur shares her expertise with caregivers of all kinds, giving them the tools they need to help a child or teenager mourn, move forward, and make meaning of terrible loss.

  • Spar 17%
    av Gordon McAlpine
    340,-

    "After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. As the days pass, the Gales are increasingly terrified the worst has happened. But when the girl turns up unharmed four days later, the townsfolk breathe a sigh of relief. That is, until Dorothy herself relates her account of the events that took place during her disappearance. In vivid detail, Dorothy describes a fantastical land and its magical inhabitants: a scarecrow, a tin man, a cowardly lion, a wizard, a witch. Her recollections are not only regarded as delusional, but also as pagan and diabolical in nature, especially when the body of a local spinster is found matching Dorothy's description of a witch she claims to have killed"--

  • Spar 18%
    av Alyssa Palombo
    349,-

    One of Venice's famous courtesans, Valentina, beautiful, cultured, deadly, seduces and kills men the Council of Ten orders her to, but when she's ordered to kill a fellow assassin--and the man she loves, she must uncover the Council of Ten's dark agenda, with the help of her fellow courtesans, to save him.

  • Spar 18%
    av Connie Berry
    359

    "As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. But matters turn deadly when a shot is fired during a fundraising gala, injuring Gideon Littlejohn. the man who donated the dress. Littlejohn is a cyber-security expert who lives and dresses as a Victorian gentleman, but everyone believes the real target of the attack to be a controversial politician intent on rooting out local corruption. This belief is overturned when Gideon is found dead in a pool of blood. But then the politician receives a death threat. When asked to assist in the investigation, Kate races to discover the truth as it becomes clear the killer isn't going to come quietly."--

  • Spar 16%
    av Katie Kennedy
    214

    "Nick Sorensen had once been one of the fastest men in hockey, until the devastating plane crash that took the lives of his best friends, leaving him the only survivor. Now he's physically ready to get back on the ice, but his coach is concerned Nick isn't doing as well, mentally, as he says he is. To prove he's fine, Nick hires Alyssa Compton, an up-and-coming interior designer, to decorate his apartment. But Nick turns out to be infuriatingly stubborn and impossible to work with, and just when Alyssa decides to throw in the towel on the whole thing, Nick shows up for her in a way she never could have expected"--

  • Spar 18%
    av Emma Sasaki
    349,-

    Wesley Friends School is Washington, DC's most prestigious prep school, so of course Aki Hiyashi-Brown is proud to teach at it and send her daughter Meg there. Why wouldn't she be proud? Parents kill to have their kid enrolled at Wesley. Not only is Wesley the premier academic destination for the children of the capital elite, but it's all about "Diversity, Achievement, Collegiality," as all of their very glossy brochures will tell you. Aki should know. As one of the few teachers of color on staff, her face is plastered on every piece of marketing material the school puts out. But when someone graffities "Make Wesley White Again" on campus, it exposes dangerous fault lines in the school community, ones Aki may have spent a lifetime learning to ignore. But her headstrong daughter Meg, and Meg's similarly impassioned classmates, aren't willing to let slide. Before Aki can sort out her own feelings about the hate crime, the school's administration jumps into crisis management mode and assigns Aki as head of the Racial Equity Task Force--a cobbled-together initiative that has a big name and little actual power. Between hasty changes to the curriculum and an anonymous instagram account documenting a history of racism on campus, Aki finds herself caught in the crossfire."--Jacket flap.

  • Spar 18%
    av Kathleen Bryant
    349,-

    Taking a job with a down-on-its-luck tour company while she rebuilds her life, former crime reporter Del Cooper, while hiking in a remote red rock canyon, finds the broken body of a murdered man, and digging into the case, uncovers her small town's darkest secrets, while someone watches from the shadows.

  • Spar 17%
    av Mae Bennett
    224,-

    Bellamy Price has just been offered the job of a lifetime: lead contractor on the restoration of the mysterious and sprawling Killington Estate. If she meets the owner's ridiculous timeline, she'll finally make a name for herself in this male-dominated industry. But when she rolls up her sleeves, slips on her suspenders, and shows up at the crumbling mansion, Bellamy finds the estate very much occupied. After a traumatic car accident that left his parents dead and himself injured, Oliver Killington, heir to the Killington empire, took up residence as the grumpy caretaker of his grandfather's mansion. None too pleased by the presence of the hammer-wielding woman who's moved into his house, Oliver tries to block her at every turn. But when Bellamy discovers Oliver's facing his own ultimatum from his grandfather, the two form a cautious truce, which leads to flying sparks that are definitely not from faulty wiring. As Bellamy restores the gleam to the Killington Estate, she'll have to decide if the walls she's built around herself are worth knocking down to make space for someone else.

  • Spar 17%
    av Maggie Auffarth
    340,-

    Ostracized by her fiance and friends after a drunken mistake, Marl ey Henderson investigates a string of arsons that point to her best friend Thea, uncovering dark secrets about the town and her past.

  • Spar 17%
    av Eva Gates
    224 - 340,-

  • Spar 16%
    av Kate Khavari
    214 - 396

  • Spar 18%
    av Jennie Marts
    349,-

    With the murder of a celebrity host putting a buzzkill on the annual Bee Festival when her best friend is accused of the crime, Bailey and her Granny Bee are determined to find the truth, save the festival and catch the real killer before they sting someone else.

  • av Annabel Paulsen
    231

    "Krystin knows exactly what she wants: a husband, a horse, and a place to hang all her competitive rodeo blue ribbons. ... On Hopelessly Devoted, Krystin will compete against dozens of other women for the heart of this season's Hopeless Romantic, Josh Rosen. She's determined to win the perfect life she came here for, if she can just ignore the glossy brunette whose crimson smile gives her goosebumps. Lauren has never done anything for the right reasons, and she's definitely not on Hopelessly Devoted to win Josh's heart. Lauren's plan is simple: stay on the show long enough to build her social media following, and then gracefully leave when it's her turn to be eliminated. ... But the longer she stays on the show, the more she finds herself tangled up in a certain blonde's lasso. But neither contestant expects a heteronormative dating show to challenge their own deeply-ingrained ideas of who they are, and what they want"--

  • Spar 17%
    av Misha Popp
    340,-

    "Daisy Ellery is back to doing what she does best: making pies and killing guys. And it's about to get more dangerous than ever. Daisy knows the statistic--domestic violence perpetrated by cops is rampant. It was only a matter of time before she was called in to help. But when this request arrives in her inbox, it isn't accompanied by the required referral and that makes Daisy nervous. Is this really a woman trapped in a violent relationship, or is it a shady cop trying to uncover Daisy's murdery side hustle? Daisy hesitates to accept the job--until the woman who left the request goes missing and it's clear her boyfriend is responsible. Knowing the boyfriend's work buddies won't be any help with the investigation, Daisy sets out to find the woman and plans a little justice of her own. When Daisy finds evidence that the boyfriend wasn't just a monster in private, but corrupt at work too, things get even more perilous. Feeling guilty that she hesitated to help the woman, Daisy is determined to find her and get her justice--whatever it takes"--

  • av Christy Schillig
    396

    "Ava Graham's ducks are in a row as she heads off to Italy to complete her final law school credits and fulfill a promise she made to her late mother five years ago. Ava expects her long-term boyfriend to propose before her trip, but instead of giving her a ring, he suggests they use her time abroad as a "break" before settling down. When James Massini arrives-late-to the airport to pick up Ava as a favor to his aunt and uncle, he's surprised to find that she's not a young co-ed, but a fascinating woman approaching thirty with a serious superiority complex and a habit of underestimating him. When she's assigned to his class as a TA, he becomes determined to prove to her that there is more to life than plans and lists, no matter how hard she fights with him-or how annoyingly charming he finds their banter. Despite the sudden disaster of her life, type A Ava might actually enjoy Italy-if only annoyingly carefree James wasn't there, too. As Ava reluctantly lets James try to show her a different way of life in Italy, she begins to find beauty in the chaos. Of course, it's when things begin to make sense again that her past comes storming back"--

  • Spar 17%
    av Lauren Bailey
    340,-

    "Olivia Taylor's marriage is in a death spiral when she agrees to come home to the Hamptons to help her father and sisters pack up the family estate. If it looks like she's running away from her soon-to-be ex, Wes, and New York City, well, she is. But someone has to take care of things and that's always been Olivia's role in the family. After years of financial trouble, someone's finally bailing them out with a huge offer to buy their beachfront property, which is a good thing, although it means losing the home she grew up in, where her mother died, and where she first met Fred, the love of her life. It's been five years since the last time things blew up between Olivia and Fred, but much longer since the first time. At this point, Olivia fears it was never meant to be, so there's no reason to feel butterflies in her stomach at the idea of seeing him again. They've already tried, and tried again...and again...but she's newly single, and she isn't the same person she was the last time-and Fred has changed too. This time, things will be different. Maybe, just maybe, the fifth time's the charm"--

  • Spar 21%
    av Nolan Chase
    247 - 340,-

  • Spar 30%
    av Michelle Prak
    288,-

    The first drops start to fall when Quinn spies the body. With no reception and nothing but an empty road for miles, does she stop to help or keep driving to safety? Back at the iconic country pub where Quinn works, Andrea is sandbagging the place in preparation for heavy rains. Alone with her sleeping son in the back room, she reluctantly lets a biker in to wait out the storm. Out on the wet roads, tensions arise among four backpackers on their way to Darwin. They haven't prepared for this kind of weather and the flooding isn't the only threat on the horizon ...Chilling, tense and twisted, this compulsive thriller will send adrenaline coursing through your veins. 'An electrifying outback thriller that's unlike anything I've read.' Mark Brandi, author of Wimmera 'This has to be the most terrifying book I've read in years! Michelle is a very assured writer, and her characters are so believable. I genuinely cared whether they lived or died, which is what made the book so deliciously tense.' Shelley Burr, author of Wake 'What a rollercoaster ride! A cracking debut you won't be able to put down.' Kelli Hawkins, author of Other People's Houses 'An utterly chilling read with an unexpected twist.' Vikki Petraitis, author of The Unbelieved 'Masterful twists all the way to its shattering ending.' Greg Woodland, author of The Night Whistler 'Taut, unpredictable, terrifying.' Neela Janakiramanan, author of The Registrar 'A haunting road trip through the outback with a terrifying finale.' Tim Ayliffe, author of The Enemy Within 'The Rush by Michelle Prak gives new meaning to the words gripping and horrifying ... It is anything but your typical outback thriller.' Books+Publishing

  • av Victoria Houston
    416,-

    "When a local pickleball player is shot in the head while practicing at an abandoned tennis court with his partner-slash-lover, Sheriff Lew Ferris suspects that the bullet was a stray shot from hunters in the area. It's not until a second player--the first victim's mistress and pickleball partner--is killed that Sheriff Ferris realizes this is no hunting accident. Someone is hunting people, and it's up to her to find out who. With the first victim's crazed widow breathing down Lew's neck, there's no room to breathe, let alone to find time to appreciate the beautiful Loon Lake fall and go fishing. Adding to Sheriff Ferris' difficulties are three pickleball players convinced someone has targeted them, someone who will do anything, even murder, to frighten them away from the courts where they play--but why? Who is really at risk? The pickleball players, or Lew and the people close to her?" --

  • av Kerri Hakoda
    396

    "When the body of a barista is found in the once-pristine Alaskan snow, Anchorage homicide detective DeHavilland Beans is gutted to recognize the young woman, Jolene. He'd bought coffee from her every morning and knew her as a bright college student working her way through school. Devastated by the murder and by the life cut short, Beans vows to find the killer. Since scavengers damaged the body, obtaining any usable evidence is impossible, even with the assistance of wildlife expert Raisa Ingalls, Beans's ex. When the body of another woman is found, a serial killer is suspected, and the FBI joins the hunt. After a third body turns up, Beans is desperate to find the killer, especially when another woman goes missing. With the murderer moving so quickly, Beans and his team are determined to stop the spree and catch the killer before it's too late"--

  • Spar 30%
    av Katie Tietjen
    288,-

    "Inspired by the real-life mother of forensic science, Frances Glessner Lee, and featuring a whip-smart, intrepid sleuth in post-WWII Vermont ... Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn. Something about the supposed suicide rubs Maple the wrong way, but local authorities brush off her concerns. Determined to help them see 'what's big in what's small', Maple turns to what she knows best, painstakingly recreating the gruesome scene in miniature: death in a nutshell. With the help of a rookie officer named Kenny, Maple uses her macabre miniature to dig into the dark undercurrents of her sleepy town, where everyone seems to have a secret and a grudge. But when her nosy neighbor goes missing and she herself becomes a suspect, it'll be up to Maple to find the devil in the details and put him behind bars"--

  • av Stephanie Jayne
    266,-

    "Kat Malone is left cash-strapped after a job loss and a bad breakup (pro tip: never offer to pay living expenses for a freeloading poetry major) when she discovers a surprising new career path: craft beer brewer. When the brewpub she works at is sold, the new owner places his light-on-experience son in charge of the pub. Ryan is as basic as a pale lager and aims to turn quirky Resistance into a run-of-the-mill sports bar. Worse, he won't consider Kat for the position of brewer's assistant -- the job she'd been promised by the previous owners. Despite clashes between Kat and Ryan, he confides that Resistance is in financial trouble and that drastic changes will be needed if the pub has any hope of survival. Forced to collaborate, Kat realizes Ryan isn't as bland as she assumed -- he might even be exactly what she's been craving. But just as Ryan promises Kat a true partnership in the face of his father's opposition, Kat is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. "Marrying the beer" used to be Kat's only goal, but can she craft a brew for her life that allows her to have it all?"--

  • Spar 17%
    av Rob Osler
    340,-

    In this rollicking mystery sure to delight fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club and Robert Thorogood's Marlow Murder Club series, the circus becomes the stage for a high-profile murder investigation. With quirky LGBTQ+ amateur sleuths, Cirque du Slay will delight readers looking for a madcap mystery with high-flying excitement!Pint-sized Seattle middle school teacher and gay dating blogger Hayden McCall and his best friend Hollister are invited to a fundraiser for Bakers Without Borders. The celebrity performer, Kennedy Osaka, is the artistic director of Mysterium, an upscale circus arts show combining magic, acrobatics, and a Michelin-star dinner. But Kennedy is a no-show—until she’s found dead in her hotel suite.When frenemy Sarah Lee is discovered in the room with the body, Hayden and Hollister are on the case to find the real culprit before Sarah Lee is charged with the crime.The suspects for the murder are as unique as Mysterium itself: a Russian trapeze artist, a cowgirl comedian sharp-shooter, an over-cologned operations director, a feisty, green-haired costume manager, and Adrenalin!, a sexy troop of Romanian male acrobats...If Hayden and Hollister are to clear Sarah Lee of suspicion, they’ll have to outsmart a killer for whom trickery is art.

  • Spar 18%
    av Victoria Gilbert
    228 - 349,-

  • Spar 17%
    av Hilton Reed
    340,-

    "When a grieving widower finds out there are dark secrets surrounding his wife's death, he's set on a nail-biting chase for the truth."--Provided by publisher.

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