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1) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 21cm.
Description
Ex-police officer Mick Stranahan rescues a woman from the ocean. Joey Perrone's husband tried to kill her by pushing her overboard from a cruise liner because he suspected that she had figured out his scam of doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can illegally dump fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. Mick helps Joey haunt and taunt her homicidal husband.
2) Foe: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Severe climate change has ravaged the country, leaving behind a charred wasteland. Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable if solitary life on one of the last remaining farms. Their private existence is disturbed the day a stranger comes to the door with alarming news. Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm, but the most unusual part is that arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband. Eager to make her own way in the world, she accepts the governess position at Thornfield Hall. Though her new employer, Edward Rochester, has a charming air—not to mention a handsome face—Jane discovers that his smile can sharpen in an instant. Plagued by Edward's mercurial mood and the strange wails that echo through the corridors, Jane grows suspicious of the secrets hidden within Thornfield...
4) Exhibit
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant, young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to college sweetheart Phillip, inwho she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is a glamorous, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic...
5) The guest
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another heart-pounding home full of secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite froman emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
Author
Series
Expectant detectives mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
For Alice and her partner, Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace life in the English countryside and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she'll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they'd hoped for doesn't quite pan out when the body of a shopkeeper is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation. With a cloud of suspicion...
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