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London, December, 1815. It’s Christmastime, and Lady Petra Forsyth has volunteered to assist with a series of bachelor-auction dances in the fortnight leading up to Christmas Eve. Over five nights, the families of unmarried ladies will bid for their daughter to be the evening’s hostess and dance with the eligible bachelors. After only the first evening, Petra discovers the dead body of one of the bachelors, splayed below the ballroom’s balcony. The death is declared an accident. But when another bachelor’s life is nearly ended a few days later, Petra fears something more sinister may be afoot. She agrees to investigate from within --- by pretending to be one of the ladies vying for the bachelors’ attentions. As she begins to unravel the truth, all while pretending to flirt with the bachelors to keep her cover, Petra will need to act like a lady while using every lock pick and defensive move she has learned.

At the dawn of the 20th century, widow Isabelle Bishop still believes in love --- but she knows only money can save her. When Isabelle captures the attention of John Whitten, one of New York’s wealthiest men, she dares to hope. But Whitten’s interest is not in Isabelle --- it’s in 18-year-old Mariah. When Whitten discovers the secret mother and daughter have tried to keep buried, he uses it to his advantage, threatening to expose them unless Mariah accepts his proposal. For the sake of their survival, Isabelle makes a devil’s bargain. Mariah quickly realizes her husband’s home is a gilded cage. Yet even under his watchful eye, she begins to carve out passions of her own, finding an unexpected ally in her ambitious maid, Hetty. Together, she and Hetty risk everything to claim a measure of power and self-determination in a world that attempts to deny them both.

All Arnie Tenderton wants this Christmas --- all he’s ever wanted --- is to be a published author. For decades he has toiled over one novel after another. Each was missing something. Until now. He’s finally written his perfect book. What he needs next is a literary agent, someone who can get his book into publishers’ hands. Not just any agent will do, of course. Arnie wants the best. Arnie wants Claudia Conley. She already rejected him once, and Arnie has never forgiven her. He could move on. Instead, he finds out where Claudia is spending the holidays: alone in a remote house in the Catskill Mountains. He decides to show up there to make his pitch. Claudia may try to turn him down again, but this time Arnie won’t take no for an answer. Because his book is about her. And he’s not leaving until the story ends the way he wants.

Over the years, Trenton’s best-known bounty hunter has acquired a long list of enemies. It’s an occupational hazard as a bond enforcement agent. The problem is that she now has a mysterious enemy whose name isn’t on any list. Disturbing packages, threatening notes and near misses are keeping Stephanie in the dark and her anonymous tormentor, who wants her dead, in the shadows. And if adjusting to being newly married isn’t enough to take a few years off Stephanie’s life, working for her ex-fiancé and mentor, Ranger, might do the trick. Ranger has taken a security job for a powerful political figure, and Stephanie is in charge of babysitting one of the figure’s family members. The clock is ticking for Stephanie to find the invisible stalker who is sending her increasingly menacing messages.

Tracing the different eras of his life --- from Kunta Kinte to Geordi La Forge to "Reading Rainbow" and far beyond the camera --- celebrated actor LeVar Burton fearlessly opens up about growing up during the Civil Rights Movement, being raised by a remarkable mother, and discovering his calling as a storyteller. He explores how acting has served as both a source of transformation and an escape from the most difficult parts of his past, while also confronting the challenges of being a parent, husband and householder. As Burton honors the loved ones whose strength and resilience shaped him in this inspiring memoir, he also asks what we owe to our ancestors and to each other, reflecting on the deep necessity he’s always felt advocating for liberation and equity.

One month after young detective Helgi’s girlfriend Aníta is killed in a car accident, he returns to work in Reykjavík, haunted by loss and rage. The driver --- Helgi's ex-girlfriend Bergþóra, a violent alcoholic whose abuse he kept secret --- insists Aníta’s death was an accident and walks free. To escape his mounting despair, Helgi throws himself into the unsolved disappearance of his predecessor, Hulda, a retired officer long presumed dead. But as he follows the traces she left behind, the lines between her past and his present begin to blur. When Bergþóra is later found lifeless in her bath, suspicion falls squarely on Helgi. With his own colleagues turning against him, can he uncover the truth in time?

An eccentric professor relocates with his two children, a boy and a girl, to a gated island off the coast of Miami. The kids have come to the US to spend time with their father after a heated custody battle. But as the professor is embraced by a glittering social scene and his fun, innocent antics tip into recklessness, the children receive a very different kind of education. In this lush, sharply observed novel, an unnamed, unreliable narrator remembers her surreal stay on Key Biscayne, where nobody lives unless they have something to hide. As the narrator is gradually drawn into the island’s morally ambiguous world, putting her innocence at risk, she begins to overidentify with her father. She becomes not just witness but also accomplice to his erratic behavior, acquiescing to his efforts to isolate herself and her brother from their concerned mother, whose calls from Spain go unanswered.

Despite her name, Twinkle Winkleman is as tough as nails. A skilled mechanic and certified spitfire, she has a nose for trouble. So when a young woman from Anchorage disappears after heading to Seattle for an internship that seems too good to be true, Twinkle is convinced that something dangerous is happening. But both the Anchorage and Seattle authorities dismiss her out of hand. With nowhere else to turn, Twinkle calls on an old friend: private investigator and former homicide cop J. P. Beaumont. While Twinkle and Beau investigate the disappearances, they stumble upon a plot more nefarious --- and widespread --- than they could have imagined. With the clock ticking and multiple lives at stake, Beau and Twinkle must go above and beyond to stop the killings --- and then bring the girls home before it is too late.

Scott Bradley James, like the US Navy in which he serves, is uncertain of the course he sails, both in war and love. While the threat of defeat that loomed over the first half of America’s war against Japan is behind him, much danger lies ahead. Disastrous mistakes can still be made --- and they will be. For James and his comrades, their cost will be high indeed --- both at sea against a fanatic foe, and on the home front in relations of the heart. Reminiscent of Herman Wouk’s WAR AND REMEMBRANCE, THE TURNING TIDE fuses disparate elements into a masterpiece of historical fiction. Rarely has an understanding of the canvas of war been more happily married to a reckoning with the character of combatants alongside their lovers at home.

Jeff Shaara, renowned for his body of work exploring the conflicts and personalities surrounding key moments in American history, turns his attention to one of the most consequential figures during one of the most critical points in history: Abraham Lincoln. As only the finest of historical novelists can do, Shaara brings to life the travails and conflicts, victories and tragic defeats, the legends and the history, both personal and private, of Lincoln during the country’s most pivotal years. Beginning with his election as President in 1860, through his time in the Oval Office, Shaara reveals the complexities behind the man who refused to let the deep divisions and conflicting emotions permanently sunder the country itself, at great personal cost.

In this stand-alone sequel to ALL THE LITTLE HOUSES, the fallout from an utterly unexpected death reverberates over every margarita and through every pine-lined street down in Texas. Longview is a place quite familiar with social scandal and unsolved crimes, but now that the queen has fallen from her throne, there's more at stake than just pinning a murder on someone. For those who would relish their own empire, like a certain trad wife or a deviously ambitious daughter, the town crown is there for the taking --- if you're not taken to jail first. No one is innocent here, not in the land of big hair and bigger mischief. You can't get what you want without a little collateral damage --- and everything is bigger in Texas.

Anita Brookner is famous for her quiet, incisive studies of solitary and emotionally restrained characters --- often middle-class women --- navigating loneliness, disappointment and small eruptions of desire beneath a façade of reserve. Yet as Hermione Lee demonstrates in her captivating and absorbing biography, Brookner the writer was the inventor of those lonely women, not their alter ego. Brookner herself was formidable, witty, elegant, precise and controlled. She was the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge. At her death in 2016, she left behind 25 novels, but very few personal papers survived. Now, in Hermione Lee’s book, Brookner’s character is revealed to us. This luminous portrait seamlessly weaves life and work into a vivid, insightful and riveting narrative that sheds a penetrating light on a writer --- and woman --- like no other.

In 1973, Hamilton, Ohio, was a mill town so typical it prided itself on being quintessentially American. Here, young Nicole is born into a fourth-generation household in the Second Ward, a segregated neighborhood between the river and the railroad tracks. In this tight-knit community, most of Nicole’s neighbors are like her relatives: large, intergenerational families a few decades up from the South. But the legacy of slavery and the entrenched racism of the Midwest cast a shadow over the Second Ward. As Nicole grows up, she witnesses the Second Ward undergo devastating changes that impact her family and neighbors. Nicole nurtures her intellectual curiosity and independence, dreaming of college and the world beyond. But she fears that leaving the Second Ward means abandoning everything she’s known --- the community that raised her and the family that loves her.

Niamh McShane was born a witch and died a witch in the same moment, at the tender age of 13. A victim of the madness that spread from Salem Town to her home on Piety Island, she found comfort in the weavers imprisoned alongside her, who saw power within Niamh and gave her some of their own. More than 300 years later, on the same island, Neve McShane wakes on her 13th birthday and unwraps gifts from her aunts, including an antique pendant and a revelation that will change her life. Neve learns that her aunts are witches, and so is she. Their lives --- past and present --- are bound together by that pivotal day centuries ago. Now Neve has been tasked with stopping a growing darkness. Neve hones her skills while, at night, dreaming of a young man from Ireland whose eyes met with hers for a fateful moment centuries ago.

Six years after the love of her life passed away, Anna Hughes, a sought-after photographer, finds fulfillment in her work and in being a mother to her two daughters. Ashley is a lawyer who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children, and Isabelle is a painter in New York City --- and a dreamer who has yet to find direction. While in Los Angeles, Anna’s son-in-law asks her to consider being on a dating show for seniors he’s producing. She declines, but agrees to attend at a dinner for potential cast members. There she meets Shep Anderson, a bank manager devoted to his late wife’s memory, his sailboat, and his son, Bill. But just as they are getting closer, their children’s lives seem to implode. Surrounded by a whirlwind of chaos, Anna and Shep question whether a relationship is possible.

Gloria Hale, the President’s wife, was assassinated by a lone gunman, and a young lawyer disappeared in the ensuing chaos, only to have her murdered body turn up a few days later. Michael Harris, a D.C. lawyer with a flagging second career as a novelist, stumbles across voluminous research done by a deceased former Secret Service agent obsessed with proving that the First Lady’s assassination was a conspiracy. Thinking he might be able to turn one of these theories into his next book, Harris begins to look into the matter. He doesn’t turn up anything, but his inquiries might have set something into motion --- leading to another murder, a fire destroying the original evidence, and an attempted assault on Harris himself. This might be a coincidence, or Harris may well be the next target in an increasingly deadly conspiracy.

Callista Moran has spent a lifetime putting her own plans aside to care for other people. Once she and Darren Knight announce their engagement, she thinks her future is finally set. But when a routine sailing trip goes tragically wrong, a cyclone blows those carefully made plans away. Stranded on an island for the next 18 months alongside the crew and her fiancé’s cousin, Callista discovers a strength she never knew she had. With Dominic, an ex–army medic, she finds true peace --- and a version of herself that she doesn’t need to explain. When they’re finally found, the world hasn’t changed. But they have. In the height of a modern media frenzy, learning to live as the people they’ve become will challenge not only their definition of survival, but love.

Nora Pacetti is a new stay-at-home mother --- she’s tired but coping while caring for her happy, healthy baby, Olivia. But then one morning, something that looks like a feather starts growing out of Olivia’s arm. Or at least, that’s what Nora’s mother, Giulia, thinks. Nora thinks her mother has probably spent too much time watching conspiracy videos on YouTube. Nora’s husband thinks Olivia needs tests, specialists, hospitals. But Nora senses that whatever is happening to her daughter needs to be concealed --- and a mother’s intuition is never wrong. Soon sinister people begin asking questions about Olivia, and Nora starts to wonder if there really is something wrong with her baby. But she’s determined to discover the truth about her daughter...no matter the cost.

When Stone Barrington receives a call from Ben Bachetti, asking him to attend an urgent meeting with Centurion Pictures’ board of directors, Stone wastes no time in getting to Los Angeles. After all, a date night with Josie Hale is long overdue. There, he learns a company called Zelzah International is attempting a hostile takeover of a friend’s independent film group, and Ben needs the board’s help in putting a stop to their malicious antics. While Stone and the board work with Ben to deal with Zelzah, Stone’s pilot Faith gets in a bad accident. Suspicious that she was set up, Stone must investigate who wants Faith dead and why, before both crises spiral out of control.

When a harrowing arson in Manhattan burns a building to the ground, Rhyme and Sachs are called to investigate, only to discover in the rubble a package of clues that teases where the perp will strike next. Rhyme and Sachs work feverishly to unravel the mystery, turning to an unlikely source for help: one of the nation's most popular history podcasters. Along the way they cross paths with Desdemona Vale, a determined detective from Long Island who is in search of the killer of a young woman from her neighborhood. As Rhyme's team digs into both cases, it becomes increasingly clear that their suspect's plot might be more complicated than they initially thought. But can Rhyme and Sachs unpack his vile scheme and stop the carnage in time?

Detective Ali Dawson leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel back in time to solve them. But ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in Victorian London, Ali and her team have been forbidden from time travel. At a loss, Ali dives into a present-day case --- an apparent suicide of a young man who fell to his death from a high building. Ali believes the death is linked to a bad-news psychic medium, Barry Power. Suspicious, Ali attends one of Power’s shows, where he claims to be in contact with none other than Jones. Minor trouble closer to home inspires Ali to sneak back in time just long enough to prevent misfortune. Her plan backfires, and she finds herself once again in Victorian London. But with a potential murderer operating in multiple centuries, how on earth is she supposed to protect everyone at risk?

In the early 1920s, the former Emperor of China, Puyi, and his Empress, Wanrong, were sequestered inside Peking’s ancient Forbidden City. Surrounded by scheming courtiers, fawning servants, and corrupt eunuchs, Puyi did not know from one day to the next whether he would experience restoration, expulsion or assassination. THE LAST EMPEROR OF CHINA delves into the final years of the Manchu Dynasty, beginning with China’s last royal wedding. Paul French calls upon previously unpublished letters from the Emperor’s tutor and the diary of Wanrong’s English teacher, which shed a new light on the final days of China’s last dynasty before the imperial court’s brutal expulsion. THE LAST EMPEROR OF CHINA is also the story of the ancient citadel itself: the Forbidden City, a haven prohibited to all except the imperial family and their court.

In THE SENSUALIST, Gary chases capybaras, the largest rodent in the world. He joins 7,500 fellow passengers on the biggest cruise ship on the seas. He schleps around New York City in search of the best martini. He visits wool merchants and tailors in pursuit of the perfect blue suit. He travels to Naples, Bombay, Havana and Beijing. He sits on his porch in upstate New York. He puts down his phone and looks up at the stars. To Gary, a sensualist believes the details of one's life are always worth savoring and happiness can be found from looking around. A sensualist isn't a glutton or an aesthete, but someone who embraces the sublime --- and the absurd. In THE SENSUALIST, Gary takes us across town and across the world, showing us how to appreciate the joys of life, no matter what.

It's 1965, and the world lives on a knife edge. The Circus, home of British intelligence, has one formidable clandestine asset in Moscow: a senior officer in the Red Army who is privy to deep Soviet secrets. But when a British agent is shot on a routine visit to Helsinki, George Smiley uncovers a counter-intelligence operation which puts all that in jeopardy. The trail leads not to Berlin or Vienna but to Los Angeles, where Smiley's nemesis, the Russian master spy known only as Karla, may have a long-term, low profile agent --- a Taper Man --- poised to expose London's man in Moscow. Meanwhile, Roy Bland, a daring but fragile Circus spy presently in Leningrad without the protection of diplomatic cover, must push his luck to breaking point to reveal the Russian end of the operation and rescue a defector whose time is running out --- and get Smiley the last piece of Karla’s puzzle.

When Jack Chen, the oldest son of caterers from Queens, finagles his way into a prestigious internship at tech giant K.O. Systems, he’s prepared to fake everything, even his past. What he isn’t prepared for is his officemate, Jack Owens, the depressed son of the company’s founder, who’s only there for a summer reprieve from his father’s scrutiny. Owens, Chen and Chen’s girlfriend quickly become close friends, but by summer's end the three can no longer outrun the lies they’ve told themselves and each other. As pressures build throughout the next few years, the two Jacks circle each other like opponents in their favorite board game, Go, each chasing the life the other was born into. But the path to success and matters of the heart can test even the closest of friendships --- and not all of them survive.