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"Malibu 1983. Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of one night, each of their lives will be changed forever in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Malibu is buzzing with anticipation for Nina Riva's annual party. Everyone wants to be in the company of the famous Rivas: Nina, the surfer and model; her brothers, Jay and Hud, one a championship...
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Inheriting their late grandmother's sprawling, book-filled home in London, siblings Grace and Andrew Easton move in together and initially enjoy a shared life that is complicated by Andrew's gay relationship with a strident novelist, the shattering murder of a friend, and Grace's discovery of a long-lost manuscript.
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From the author of the international bestseller "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" comes another exquisite and emotionally resonant novel about the search for the truth and unconditional love. On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old Byron Hemming and his mother are driving to school in the English countryside. On the way, in a life-changing two seconds, an accident occurs. Or does it? Byron is sure it happened, but his mother, sitting...
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A powerful suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. Claire Cameron has imagined what transpires if a couple brought small children with them on a hike in Algonquin Park and the parents are mauled by a bear. "The Bear" grabs you by the throat and will not let you go. Written by an author who has experience of both wilderness survival and motherhood, it is a brilliant examination...
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Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join him for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process and Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. Because of Haddon's extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating...
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"The thrilling second novel from the author of The Chalk Man, about a teacher with a hidden agenda who returns to settle scores at a school he once attended, only to uncover a darker secret than he could have imagined. Joe never wanted to come back to Arnhill. After the way things ended with his old gang--the betrayal, the suicide, the murder--and after what happened when his sister went missing, the last thing he wanted to do was return to his hometown....
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