The Trick: A Novel

But the track in which zabbatini performs the spell of eternal love—the spell Max believes will keep his parents from getting divorced—is damaged beyond repair. Sweeping between prague during world war ii and modern-day los angeles, bestselling author of The German Girl that follows a young boy seeking out a cynical, uplifting, and funny story that will tug at all of your heartstrings” Armando Lucas Correa, “The Trick is a lyrical, old magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together.

In 1934, and rises to fame under the stage name the great Zabbatini, becomes a magician, a rabbi’s son in Prague joins a traveling circus, just as Europe descends into World War II. Seventy years later in los angeles, ten-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest illusions.

With gentle wisdom and heartbreaking humor, deeply moving story about a young boy who needs a miracle, this is an inventive, and a disillusioned old man who needs redemption. Desperate for a solution, Max seeks out the now elderly, cynical magician and begs him for help. When zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope for survival.

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Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids

Armed with medical case histories, scientific findings, and even the occasional experiment on himself or his kids, Jennings exposes countless examples of parental wisdom run amok. Whether you’re a parent plagued by needless concern or a kid of any age looking to say, “I told you so, ” this is the anti– helicopter parenting book you’ve been waiting for.

Jennings separates myth from fact to debunk a wide variety of parental edicts: no swimming after meals, sit up straight, don’t talk to strangers, and so on. Author of planet funny ken jennings “reveals the truth behind all those things you tell your children” Parade in this entertaining and useful New York Times bestseller “armed with case histories, scientific finds, and experiments on himself and his own children” Los Angeles Times.

Is any of it true? if so, how true? Ken Jennings wants to find out if parents always know best. Yes, all those years you were told not to sit too close to the television or swallow your gum or crack your knuckles are called into question by our country’s leading trivia guru.


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The Family Tabor: A Novel

As the ceremony nears, the family members are forced to confront the falsehoods upon which their lives are built. Set over the course of a single weekend, gorgeously rendered novel, this provocative, and deftly alternating between the five Tabors, reckons with the nature of the stories we tell ourselves and our family and the price we pay for second chances.

Gathering together in palm springs for the celebration are his wife, a distinguished child psychologist, a big-firm lawyer, Roma, and their children: Phoebe, a brilliant social anthropologist; and Simon, a high-powered attorney; Camille, who brings his glamorous wife and two young daughters. But immediately, cracks begin to appear in this smooth facade: Simon hasn’t been sleeping through the night, Camille can’t decide what to do with her life, and Phoebe is a little too cagey about her new boyfriend.

What she doesn’t know, what none of them know, is that Harry is suddenly haunted by the long-buried secret that drove him, decades ago, to relocate his young family to the California desert. Intriguing…wolas illuminates the rich, complex histories of the older Tabor generations, when they were Tabornikovs, and the sense of loyalty to one’s family history is so vivid in the novel it is practically its own character.

The new york times book reviewthe family tabor, acclaimed author of The Resurrection of Joan AshbyHarry Tabor is about to be named Man of the Decade, the new novel from Cherise Wolas, a distinction that feels like the culmination of a life well lived. Roma knows her children are hiding things.


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The Humans: A Novel

He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, and is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. He begins to see hope and beauty in the humans’ imperfection, and begins to question the very mission that brought him there. Praised by the new york times as a “novelist of great seriousness and talent, ” author Matt Haig delivers an unlikely story about human nature and the joy found in the messiness of life on Earth.

Slowly, unexpectedly, he forges bonds with Martin’s family. The humans is a funny, compulsively readable tale that playfully and movingly explores the ultimate subject—ourselves. Disguised as martin, he drinks wine, reads poetry, develops an ear for rock music, and a taste for peanut butter. Taking the form of professor andrew martin, the visitor is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned him and hurry home to his own utopian planet, a prominent mathematician at Cambridge University, where everyone is omniscient and immortal.

The bestselling, most devastating dark comedy yet, sad, suspenseful, a “silly, award-winning author of The Radleys is back with his funniest, and soulful” Philadelphia Inquirer novel that’s “full of heart” Entertainment Weekly. When an extra-terrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive.

But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this strange species than he had thought.


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The Other Side of Everything: A Novel

After her elderly neighbor is murdered, Amy Unger, a fledgling artist and cancer survivor, takes to the canvas in an effort to make sense of her neighbor’s death. As it is, bernard is pressing his luck with the woman he’s moved in with. She has information crucial to solving the crime. Their paths converge around the killer terrorizing their neighborhood and they are all faced with a life—or death—decision… A gripping page-turner that explores the strange connections between strangers, the past and the present, and the power of tragedy to spark renewal, The Other Side of Everything marks the exciting debut of a vibrant and riveting new voice.

But when her paintings prove to be too realistic, her neighbors grow suspicious, still lurking, and the murderer, finds his way to her door. Laura lippman meets megan abbott in this suspenseful mystery debut set in the aftermath of a violent crime—for “fans of crime fiction wanting literary flair and emotional depth” Publishers Weekly, starred review.

Maddie lowe is a teenager trying to balance her waitressing job and keeping her family intact after the disappearance of her mother, even as their neighborhood becomes more dangerous by the second. He convinces the neighborhood’s geriatric residents to band together to protect one another. But the originals, as they are known, can’t live together forever.

But she doesn’t realize it–until it’s almost too late. Bernard white, a widower who has isolated himself for years after a family scandal, can’t stop thinking about the murder of an old friend—and what it means for his fellow octogenarians as the death toll rises.


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The Position: A Novel

In 1975, paul and roz mellow write a bestselling Joy of Sex-type book that mortifies their four school-aged children and ultimately changes the shape of the family forever. Insightful, and compulsively readable, panoramic, The Position is an American original. Thirty years later, parenting, of course, as the now dispersed family members argue over whether to reissue the book, work, marriage, and, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children and their conflicts in love, sex—all shadowed by the indelible specter of their highly sexualized parents.

From the bestselling author of the wife—meg wolitzer’s “hilariously moving, sharply written novel” USA TODAY, marriage, with its “dead-on observations about sex, hailed by critics and loved by readers worldwide, and the family ties that strangle and bind” Cleveland Plain Dealer. Crackling with intelligence and humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution—and through the thirty-year hangover that followed.

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The Lido

International bestseller** “in many ways, this meditation on community and swimming follows in the footsteps of the enormously popular A Man Called Ove… Both are charming and heartwarming. Kirkus reviews we're never too old to make new friends—or to make a differencerosemary Peterson has lived in Brixton, London, all her life but everything is changing.

Twentysomething Kate Matthews has moved to Brixton and feels desperately alone. And as rosemary slowly opens up to Kate, both women are nourished and transformed in ways they never thought possible. That is, until she’s assigned to write about the lido’s closing. And now the lido, an outdoor pool where she's swum daily since its opening, is threatened with closure by a local housing developer.

A once promising writer, she now covers forgettable stories for her local paper. In the tradition of fredrik backman’s a man called ove, The Lido is a charming, loss, feel-good novel that captures the heart and spirit of a community across generations—an irresistible tale of love, aging, and friendship.

It was at the lido that rosemary escaped the devastation of World War II; here she fell in love with her husband, George; here she found community during her marriage and since George’s death. The family grocery store has become a trendy bar. Soon kate’s portrait of the pool focuses on a singular woman: Rosemary.




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Himself: A Novel

What begins as a personal mission gradually becomes a quiet revolution: a young man and his town uniting against corruption of power, against those who seek to freeze their small worlds in time, to quash the sinister tides of progress and modernity come hell or high water. His uncannily familiar face and outsider’s ways cause a stir among the locals, excitement the women, who receive him with a mixture of curiosity the men, and suspicion the pious.

But what those people seem to forget is that Mahony has the dead on his side. A fast-paced yarn that nimbly soars above the Irish crime fiction genre Kidd clearly knows very well. New york times book Review “A supernaturally skillful debut. Vanity fair “A delicious, gratifying and ageless story. New york journal of booksabandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up.

But when he receives a tip one night at the bar suggesting that foul play may have led to the disappearance of his mother, he decides to return to the rural Irish village where he was born to learn what really happened twenty-six years earlier. It seems that his mother, orla sweeney, had left quite an impression on this little town—dearly beloved to some, a scourge and a menace to others.

Centering on a small town rife with secrets and propelled by a twisting-and-turning plot, and a beautiful tribute to the magic of language, Himself is a gem of a book, legacy, a darkly comic mystery, and storytelling.


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The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder: A Novel

But recently jasper has been haunted by a color he doesn’t like or understand: the color of murder. Convinced he’s done something terrible to his new neighbor, Bee Larkham, Jasper revisits the events of the last few months to paint the story of their relationship from the very beginning. Words, days of the week, numbers, people’s voices—everything has its own unique shade.

Both a refreshing coming-of-age story and an intriguing mystery, The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder is a poignant and unforgettable read—perfect for fans of bestselling authors such as Fredrik Backman and Graeme Simsion. As he struggles to untangle the knot of untrustworthy memories and colors that will lead him to the truth, it seems that there’s someone else out there determined to stop him—at any cost.

In this fantastic debut, harris enters the technicolor mind of thirteen-year-old Jasper Wishart…Readers enamored of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Rosie Project will delight in Harris’s sparkling novel. Publishers weekly starred review a captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia—a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds—who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately responsible.

Thirteen-year-old jasper wishart lives in a world of dazzling color that no one else can see, least of all his dad.


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No Echo: Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Six A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel 6

Was he at all the chef he claimed to be? And can those who knew him be trusted? Working together, they are pulled deep into the nefarious world inhabited by Ziegler. Chef ziegler had many famous associates and more than a few enemies among them. The case is hopeless until hanne Wilhelmsen returns to Oslo after a six-month stay in Italy and teams up with Billy T.

Is stymied by conflicting information about the kind of man Ziegler was. It seems nobody really knew him: not his glamorous wife, his business partner, nor the editor of his memoir-in-progress. When one of oslo’s hottest celebrity chefs is murdered, Hanne Wilhelmsen is called back into action in the sixth installment of the award-winning series from Norway’s #1 bestselling female crime writer.

On a cold december evening, celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of Oslo’s police headquarters, sending a shock wave through the city’s hip in-crowd. Was his murder a random act of violence or did someone want him dead? Police investigator Billy T.


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The New Neighbor: A Novel

Frustrated, margaret crosses more and more boundaries in pursuit of the truth, threatening to unravel the new life Jennifer has so painstakingly created—and reveal some secrets of her own…. She thinks if she says the right thing, but Jennifer refuses to talk about herself, his missing father, her son, Jennifer will open up, tells the right story, or her past.

On the run from her old life, milo, she and her four-year-old son, have moved to a quiet town where no one from her past can find her. Her neighbor, Jennifer Young, is also looking to hide. In the tradition of zoe heller’s what was she thinking? notes on a scandal, the new neighbor is “a chilling page-turner” People with “simple, elegant language” The New York Times Book Review about an old woman’s curiosity turned into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her mysterious new neighbor’s complicated life.

How much can you really know about the woman next door? Ninety-year-old Margaret Riley is content hiding from the world. In jennifer, margaret sees both a potential companion for her loneliness and a mystery to be solved. Stoic and independent, she rarely leaves the Tennessee mountaintop where she lives, finding comfort in the mystery novels that keep her company—until she spots a woman who’s moved into the long-empty house across the pond.

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