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Sapna Sinha, an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics store in downtown Delhi, is approached by Vinay Mohan Acharya, a billionaire industrialist and one of India's richest men. He offers to make her CEO of his company. There is only one catch --- she needs to pass seven tests from the "textbook of life". Thus begins the most challenging journey Sapna has ever undertaken --- one that will test her character, her courage, and her capabilities. But are the seven tests real or is Acharya playing a game driven by a perverse fantasy?

Silver Matlock and Jared Newman know traveling together is a bad idea. But Silver is determined to track down the rogue who left her at the altar and stole the last remnant of her father's fortune. And Jared is in a hurry to hunt down the murderer who destroyed his family --- even if Silver is too distractingly beautiful for comfort. To confront a deadly enemy, Silver and Jared must learn to forgive and trust and face the question they haven't dared voice: What happens next?

With its sweeping historical and geographical range, THE AMBASSADORS takes readers deep into the complex lives of a New York family and the searing upheavals of late 20th century Africa. Embedded in real events, the novel takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the Congo, Germany, and Brooklyn as it examines one family’s passage through genocide and grief.

In her first memoir, a 2014 National Book Award finalist, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.

When the world's most powerful mob boss loses his wife and daughters in a terrorist attack funded by one of his rivals, he resolves to turn the tables. Rallying the heads of the globe's top criminal organizations, Vincent Marelli launches a war that may be his last. With the weight of the criminal world on his shoulders, he has only one desire in his heart: to know who ordered the hit that took out his girls.

In the final installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound --- or terrifying.

If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his 30 years as a professional umpire, he took on some of baseball’s great umpire baiters, while ejecting any number of the game’s elite. CALLED OUT BUT SAFE is Clark’s outspoken and often hilarious account of his life in baseball, from umpire school through the highlights to the inglorious end of his stellar career.

When the body of a woman is discovered in a local park --- with her bewildered four-year-old son sitting beside her --- veteran social worker Ellen Moore is called in to assist in the police investigation. Positioned beneath a statue of Leto, the goddess of motherhood, the crime is weighted with meaning and, Ellen discovers, remarkably similar to one from a decade past.