Editorial Content for Rose of Jericho
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Readers unfamiliar with Alex Grecian are in for a treat. From his London police procedurals featuring Jack the Ripper to his gothic horror/fantasy novels, Grecian is a master wordsmith always capable of transporting you to another time and place. Read More
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Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not dying. When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend, Rose, to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And something is waiting for them in the attic. The villagers of Ascension are unwelcoming and wary of their weird visitors. As the three women attempt to find out what’s happening in the town, they must be careful not to be found out. But a much larger --- and more dangerous --- force is galloping straight for them.
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Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not dying. When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend, Rose, to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And something is waiting for them in the attic. The villagers of Ascension are unwelcoming and wary of their weird visitors. As the three women attempt to find out what’s happening in the town, they must be careful not to be found out. But a much larger --- and more dangerous --- force is galloping straight for them.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of RED RABBIT comes a supernatural horror where ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch’s problems in 19th-century New England.
Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all.
The dead are not dying.
When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend, Rose, to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And something is waiting for them in the attic.
The villagers of Ascension are unwelcoming and wary of their weird visitors. As the three women attempt to find out what’s happening in the town, they must be careful not to be found out. But a much larger --- and more dangerous --- force is galloping straight for them.
Audiobook available, read by John Pirhalla
Editorial Content for The Vanishing Kind
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THE VANISHING KIND is the kind of book that you might want to read in one sitting to find out how the enthralling action ends, yet I found myself doing the opposite. Alice Henderson creates characters so likable, a plot so gripping, and a setting so idyllic that I just didn't want it to end. I kept putting off finishing it because I wanted to stay with Alex Carter in the New Mexico desert just a bit longer. Read More
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When wildlife biologist Alex Carter is tasked with locating jaguars on a vast desert preserve in New Mexico, she is ecstatic. While jaguars once roamed throughout the Southwest, they are now endangered, and Alex hopes that some of the sleek and elusive creatures have found their way to the protected sanctuary. Meanwhile, an archaeological team is excavating the gravesite of a 16th-century Spanish conquistador on a neighboring piece of land. While learning about their discoveries, Alex encounters a dangerous group of anti-immigrant vigilantes roaming the area, threatening the team and demanding they leave. And when the militants learn of Alex’s mission, they become bent on stopping her. And then there are the strange holes that keep appearing on the preserve. Who is digging them, and what are they looking for?
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When wildlife biologist Alex Carter is tasked with locating jaguars on a vast desert preserve in New Mexico, she is ecstatic. While jaguars once roamed throughout the Southwest, they are now endangered, and Alex hopes that some of the sleek and elusive creatures have found their way to the protected sanctuary. Meanwhile, an archaeological team is excavating the gravesite of a 16th-century Spanish conquistador on a neighboring piece of land. While learning about their discoveries, Alex encounters a dangerous group of anti-immigrant vigilantes roaming the area, threatening the team and demanding they leave. And when the militants learn of Alex’s mission, they become bent on stopping her. And then there are the strange holes that keep appearing on the preserve. Who is digging them, and what are they looking for?
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From highly acclaimed author Alice Henderson comes the eagerly anticipated and electrifying fourth book in the Alex Carter series, in which the wildlife biologist encounters anti-immigrant vigilantes, rugged terrain and threatening intruders in search of a sleek, powerful and furtive animal --- the jaguar.
When wildlife biologist Alex Carter is tasked with locating jaguars on a vast desert preserve in New Mexico, she is ecstatic. While jaguars once roamed throughout the Southwest, they are now endangered, with only a handful remaining, and Alex hopes that some of the sleek and elusive creatures have found their way to the protected sanctuary.
Meanwhile, an archaeological team is excavating the gravesite of a 16th-century Spanish conquistador on a neighboring piece of land. Curious about the dig, Alex meets the team. While learning about their discoveries, she encounters a dangerous group of anti-immigrant vigilantes roaming the area, threatening the team and demanding they leave. And when the militants learn of Alex’s mission, they become bent on stopping her. Because jaguars are federally endangered, the vigilantes worry that if Alex finds them, concessions will be made so that wildlife can cross the border wall. And they want no one crossing it.
And then there are the strange holes that keep appearing on the preserve. Who is digging them, and what are they looking for?
As tensions mount, Alex soon finds herself in a fight for her life against those who would prevent her from restoring jaguars to their historical habitat.
Audiobook available, read by Eva Kaminsky
Editorial Content for White King
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WHITE KING, the third and final installment in Juan Gómez-Jurado’s Red Queen saga, thrusts readers directly back into the climactic battle between Inspector Antonia Scott and her archnemesis, the White King. Every book in this series has been set up in breakneck fashion with the action fast, furious and violent. The opening entry, RED QUEEN, was the impetus for the Prime Video series of the same name, and here’s hoping that similar adaptations will be planned for BLACK WOLF and WHITE KING. Read More
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Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. She’s the linchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders and behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes. But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts. The mysterious Mr. White has been weaving a web around Antonia for a very long time. Jon Gutierrez, Antonia’s protector and the only person she trusts, has been kidnapped. Antonia’s husband has been killed, and her remaining family is in hiding. With Jon’s life at stake, Mr. White gives her a seemingly innocuous challenge: solve three crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. The only way to keep Jon alive is to play Mr. White’s game. But can even Antonia win a game when she can only see part of the board?
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Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. She’s the linchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders and behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes. But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts. The mysterious Mr. White has been weaving a web around Antonia for a very long time. Jon Gutierrez, Antonia’s protector and the only person she trusts, has been kidnapped. Antonia’s husband has been killed, and her remaining family is in hiding. With Jon’s life at stake, Mr. White gives her a seemingly innocuous challenge: solve three crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. The only way to keep Jon alive is to play Mr. White’s game. But can even Antonia win a game when she can only see part of the board?
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Antonia Scott returns in the explosive climax in this sequel to the international bestselling book and streaming series, RED QUEEN.
Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. She’s the linchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders and behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes, those that are beyond the skills of the regular police forces.
But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts. Across Europe, its agents are murdering each other and cases from the past, long believed resolved, are rearing their deadly heads again. At the center of it is the mysterious Mr. White, who has been weaving a web around Antonia for a very long time. He is as smart and capable as her. But, unlike her, he's a psychotic killer who has isolated Antonia Scott. Jon Gutierrez, Antonia’s protector and the only person she trusts, has been kidnapped. Antonia’s husband has been killed and her remaining family is in hiding.
With Jon’s life at stake, Mr. White gives her a seemingly innocuous challenge: solve three crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. The only way to keep Jon alive is to play Mr. White’s game. But can even Antonia win a game when she can only see part of the board?
Audiobook available, read by Scott Brick
Editorial Content for Goddess Complex
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Following 2021’s GOLD DIGGERS, Sanjena Sathian’s second novel opens with its protagonist, Sanjana Satyananda, in a state of in-betweenness. Things had fallen apart with her husband, Killian, several months earlier, so she left Goa and returned to New York City. To save money, she has moved out of her apartment and is caroming between her best friend Lia’s place in Brooklyn and her sister Maneesha’s in New Haven. She’s just trying to make do for a few months until she can start claiming her meager academic stipend in the fall. Read More
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Sanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sister’s while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages, mortgages and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forward --- and finalize her divorce ASAP. There’s just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down, she’s bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. Soon, Sanjana comes face to face with what her life might have been if she’d chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder, stranger and more tempting than she imagined.
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Sanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sister’s while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages, mortgages and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forward --- and finalize her divorce ASAP. There’s just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down, she’s bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. Soon, Sanjana comes face to face with what her life might have been if she’d chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder, stranger and more tempting than she imagined.
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From the author of GOLD DIGGERS, a biting examination of millennial adulthood, the often fraught conversations around fertility and reproduction and the painful quest to forge an identity.
Sanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sister’s while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages, mortgages and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forward --- and finalize her divorce ASAP.
There’s just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down, she’s bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. Soon, Sanjana comes face to face with what her life might have been if she’d chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder, stranger and more tempting than she imagined.
A darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy and parenting, GODDESS COMPLEX is a twist-filled psychological thriller and a feminist satire of our age of GirlBosses turned self-care influencers, optimization cults, internet mommy gurus, egg freezing and much more.
Audiobook available, read by Rukhmani K. Desai
Editorial Content for You Deserve to Know
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The opening chapter of Aggie Blum Thompson's latest domestic thriller, YOU DESERVE TO KNOW, introduces a setting that should seem borderline idyllic. Three picture-perfect young families living on the same cul-de-sac in well-to-do East Bethesda, Maryland, gather on an early fall evening for their weekly ritual of a shared meal and socializing. The kids --- including two pairs of twins --- run around in the backyard, the husbands bond over beer and bourbon, and the wives indulge in shared support and perhaps a little light gossip. Read More
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Neighbors Gwen, Aimee and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest secrets, navigate the challenges of motherhood together, and provide a support system that seems unbreakable. But when Gwen’s husband is found murdered after one of their weekly Friday night dinners, the peaceful quiet of their cul-de-sac shatters. As the police investigate, the veneer of friendship begins to crack, revealing hidden tensions, clandestine affairs, and long-buried jealousies among the three women. With suspicions mounting and the neighborhood gripped by fear, Gwen, Aimee and Lisa must confront the chilling truth about their husbands, and the sinister undercurrents in their own friendship.
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Neighbors Gwen, Aimee and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest secrets, navigate the challenges of motherhood together, and provide a support system that seems unbreakable. But when Gwen’s husband is found murdered after one of their weekly Friday night dinners, the peaceful quiet of their cul-de-sac shatters. As the police investigate, the veneer of friendship begins to crack, revealing hidden tensions, clandestine affairs, and long-buried jealousies among the three women. With suspicions mounting and the neighborhood gripped by fear, Gwen, Aimee and Lisa must confront the chilling truth about their husbands, and the sinister undercurrents in their own friendship.
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A brand new suspense novel from "the master of the suburban scandal" (Samantha M. Bailey), Aggie Blum Thompson.
Neighbors Gwen, Aimee and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest secrets, navigate the challenges of motherhood together, and provide a support system that seems unbreakable.
But when Gwen’s husband is found murdered after one of their weekly Friday night dinners, the peaceful quiet of their cul-de-sac shatters. The seemingly idyllic world of the three close-knit mom friends becomes a web of deception, betrayal and revenge.
As the police investigate, the veneer of friendship begins to crack, revealing hidden tensions, clandestine affairs, and long-buried jealousies among the three women. With suspicions mounting and the neighborhood gripped by fear, Gwen, Aimee and Lisa must confront the chilling truth about their husbands, and the sinister undercurrents in their own friendship.
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Editorial Content for Gumshoe After Midnight: A Mortimer Angel Mystery
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Following 2024’s GUMSHOE LUCK, the bestselling author of KILLING SUKI FLOOD introduces his 10th Mortimer Angel mystery. That makes five pairs of Gumshoes. Given Mort’s height (76 inches), those gumshoes are probably size 13.
Mort’s PI boss, Maude “Ma” Clary, dispatches him to Elko, Nevada, to assess taking on the case of a disgruntled wife who is more interested in revenge than alimony. Read More
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Mortimer Angel --- call him Mort --- is on a case in northern Nevada when he comes across a girl being kidnapped. He saves her, then finds himself embroiled in a whirlwind of death and violence as he tries to keep one step ahead of a succession of thugs trying to grab the girl again. It's another typically dangerous and bawdy case for Mort as layers upon layers of complications unfold that could end up killing him and the girl he saved.
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Mortimer Angel --- call him Mort --- is on a case in northern Nevada when he comes across a girl being kidnapped. He saves her, then finds himself embroiled in a whirlwind of death and violence as he tries to keep one step ahead of a succession of thugs trying to grab the girl again. It's another typically dangerous and bawdy case for Mort as layers upon layers of complications unfold that could end up killing him and the girl he saved.
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Mortimer Angel --- call him Mort --- is on a case in northern Nevada when he comes across a girl being kidnapped. He saves her, then finds himself embroiled in a whirlwind of death and violence as he tries to keep one step ahead of a succession of thugs trying to grab the girl again. It's another typically dangerous and bawdy case for Mort as layers upon layers of complications unfold that could end up killing him and the girl he saved.
March 14, 2025
I am reading ONE GOOD THING by Georgia Hunter. Set in Italy during World War II, it's the story of two young Jewish women, Lili and Esti, and Esti’s son, Theo. They are trying to survive and stay one step ahead of the Nazis, Mussolini’s racial laws, and everyone else who cannot be trusted.
Georgia’s parents met in Italy in the ‘70s. They both were Americans and lived there for 17 years, and Georgia went back there to visit often. She wanted to write about Italy during World War II as it has not been explored as much as other places in Europe and Japan.
Which of the following titles releasing in paperback in March have you read or do you plan to read? Please check all that apply.
March 14, 2025, 486 voters