Adult

Detective Annalisa Vega hasn’t forgiven her brother for his role in a murder, and he hasn’t forgiven her for turning him in, so she’s surprised when he asks her to visit him in prison. Turns out, he has a possible case for her: one of his fellow inmates, Joe Green, may be innocent of the murder that landed him behind bars. Faced with correcting Nick’s mistakes, Annalisa digs deeper into Joe’s past and discovers he has two ex-wives with nothing good to say about him. The women may have orchestrated an elaborate frame to put Joe in prison, but one wife has completely disappeared since then. If Annalisa doesn’t figure out the truth about Joe soon, her husband might be next.

Once the most notorious rivals in the music scene, pop princess Mackenzie Waters and punk rockstar Sam Blaze electrified audiences as their bands clashed on stage. Until suddenly both bands fell apart. Two years later, Sam lives a quiet life raising the son he didn’t know about. Mackenzie is only singing under a pseudonym. The way to revive their public careers? A joint comeback album. Sam and Mackenzie face their biggest challenge yet: giving up their old rivalry and learning to work together. But as old sparks fly and new secrets emerge, they set off a chain reaction neither of them could have anticipated --- the greatest hits are the ones yet to be written.

On a beautiful summer’s night twenty years ago, Tamara Drayton was found floating face-down in the pool of her family’s idyllic mansion. Left behind was their sister Nina who, at six years old, became the youngest person ever to testify in a French murder trial. She’s the only one who who watched as her babysitter, Josie Jackson, pushed Tamara under the water, and held her until she stopped breathing. Twenty years later, Nina's memories have faded, leaving her with no idea of what really transpired that night. When a new true crime documentary about her sister’s murder is announced, Nina thinks this might be her chance to finally find out. But the truth always comes at a cost. 

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in  bizarre ways. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible.Vera lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. When Special Agent Layne shows up, she learns he's investigating a lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino is connected to the deaths of millions, and it's Vera's last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t. Because what's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and she's the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.

New York, 1972. A college student slips out to attend a performance by a performance troupe. Within months, she has left campus life behind and joined the company, infatuated by its leader and his promises of freedom. California, 1997. A theater teacher at an exclusive private school receives an unsettling letter. With her job at risk and her past clawing at her carefully constructed present, what will she do to protect the life she has made? 

Amy Webb was a chef. She also became a wife and a stepmother and an emergency contact, and the part of her that was a chef disappeared entirely.  Which is why she is currently in the republic of Georgia, on a mission to find a lost dog named Angel, and, more importantly, the life’s purpose she once took for granted. When Angel goes missing, Amy volunteers to go find him. The fact that her husband may be having (another) affair and her stepson is away at college probably has something to do with it. Helping her on this journey of self-discovery is a rebellious teenager, a mysterious and attractive Russian, and several post-Soviet grandmothers. And, of course, the rich food and culture and complicated politics of Georgia itself. After a lifetime of looking away from her own needs and appetites, Amy is forced to confront what she really wants and how to finally find herself --- and a dog.

It's November of 1965 when Vermont State Police detective Franklin Warren is called out to what looks like an accidental shooting at The Ridge Club, an exclusive men's hunting and fishing club for when a former ambassador has been shot while out hunting. With the war in Vietnam, Warren quickly realizes that many of the club’s members are powerful men who may have ulterior motives. His neighbor Alice Bellows is throwing a dinner party. When Alice's old  friend, Arthur Crannock, unexpectedly shows up in Bethany, Alice begins to wonder whether he has anything to do with the death at the hunting club. As a snowstorm bears down on Bethany, Warren and his assistant, Trooper Pinky Goodrich, are trapped at the Ridge Club, likely along with a killer, and Alice, will have to act fast to save Sylvie and her baby.

Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbank to portentous ravens gathering on the roofs of people about to die. But when the villagers start to hear barking, and one claims to see the Mansfield sisters transform before his very eyes, the allegations spark fear like nothing has before. Something isn’t right in Little Nettlebed, and the sisters will be the ones to pay for it. A richly atmospheric parable of the pleasures and perils of female defiance, The Hounding considers whether in any age it might be safer to be a dog than an unusual young girl.

Simone is the star of Edwards University’s creative writing department. Her husband, Ethan, is a forgotten novelist and lecturer in the same department. According to Simone and Ethan, and everyone on campus, their marriage is perfect. That is, until Ethan sleeps with the department administrative assistant, Abigail. Simone, meanwhile, has secrets of her own. While Ethan’s away for the summer, she grows inordinately close with her advisee, graduate student Roberta “Robbie” Green. In Robbie, Simone finds a new running partner, confidante, and disciple --- or so she believes. Behind Simone’s back, Robbie fictionalizes her mentor’s marriage in a breathtakingly invasive MFA thesis. Determined to tell her version of the story, Robbie paints a revealing portrait of Simone, Ethan, Abigail, and even herself, scratching at the very surface of what may --- or may not --- be the truth.

You don’t have to eat food to know the way to a city’s heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food --- the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around --- for the humans of San Francisco, who are recovering from a devastating war. But when their robot-run business starts causing a stir, a targeted wave of one-star reviews threatens to boil over into a crisis. To keep their doors open, they’ll have to call on their customers, their community, and each other --- and find a way to survive and thrive in a world that wasn’t built for them.