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Christy Lefteri, author of Songbirds

Nisha works as a nanny and maid for a wealthy widow on the island of Cyprus. Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the illegal market. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha. But one night, Nisha makes dinner for the family who pays her: Petra and her daughter, Aliki. Then, after she cleans the kitchen and tucks Aliki into bed, Nisha goes out on a mysterious errand and vanishes. When the police refuse to pursue the case, Petra takes on the investigation herself, a path that leads her to Nisha’s friends --- other workers in the neighborhood --- and to the darker side of a migrant’s life.

Week of August 29, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of August 29th include MERCY, book four in David Baldacci's breakneck thriller series featuring FBI agent Atlee Pine, whose harrowing search for her long-lost sister, Mercy, reaches a boiling point; SURVIVE THE NIGHT, Riley Sager's instant New York Times bestseller with a premise that's hard to ignore: It’s November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer; FUZZ, Mary Roach's irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet; SONGBIRDS by Christy Lefteri, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan domestic worker and how the most vulnerable people find their voices; and Shea Ernshaw's A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES, a spine-tingling thriller in which three residents of a secluded, seemingly peaceful commune investigate the disappearances of two outsiders.