IDENTITY
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The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's terrifying next thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life. Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does…
THE BOOKBINDER'S SECRET
A. D. Bell
Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret. A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford…
MONA'S EYES
Thomas Schlesser
BARNES & NOBLE 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR A TOP TEN INDIE NEXT PICK Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory "all that is beautiful in the world" before Mona loses her sight forever. While the doctors…
THE LAND IN WINTER
Andrew Miller
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE WINNER 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 Winston Graham Historical Prize for Fiction "Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect...Superb."--Samantha Harvey, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital December 1962: In a village deep in the English countryside, two neighboring…
THE RESETTLEMENT OF VESTA BLONIK
Denise Smith Cline
Set during the Great Depression, The Resettlement of Vesta Blonik is the story of two strong-hearted strangers, bent but not destroyed by grief and financial destitution. Vesta Blonik, an unmarried farm woman from Minnesota and Gordon Crenshaw, confined to a North Carolina mental institution after the death of his wife and child,…
BEST OFFER WINS
Marisa Kashino
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick * A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * An ELLE Best Mystery/Thriller of 2025 * A BookRiot Best Mystery/Thriller of 2025 “It starts out feeling pretty light and fun, but I promise you, you have no idea where this story is going.” -Taylor…
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THE SCAMMER
Tiffany D. Jackson
New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another stunning, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller, following a freshman girl whose college life is turned upside down when her roommate’s ex-convict brother moves into their dorm and starts controlling their every move. Out from under her overprotective parents, Jordyn is ready to kill…
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