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Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon. Because New Avalon isn’t your ordinary island. A century ago, it was a commune for spiritual mediums --- until they all vanished in 1926. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a séance gone wrong conjured something supernatural. Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin and the other actors stranded on the island, the disappearances begin again. As fear and suspicion mount, Marin turns to Daisy’s diary, hoping it holds the key to figuring out how to keep the island’s terrible history from repeating itself.

A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A TENDER AGE joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns 11, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family.

It’s 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush and booming with newcomers. For 17-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days and evenings together, and in her adoring, encouraging company, he grows more confident. Leonard's mother welcomes Nora into their lives, but his father distrusts her motives. When his suspicions are seemingly confirmed, Nora takes a chance that changes her life, exiling her from the family she loves and setting off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her into adulthood. It is a mature Nora who tells the story of her turbulent past. Wiser and more worldly, she commits to an honest but compassionate account, and to a future based on trusting, first and foremost, herself.

Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents --- from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family in 1906, and the United States, where she was a citizen from 1950 --- Thomas Meyer tells the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Meyer illuminates her formative years and the development of her radical and brilliant books, as well as her lifelong philosophical debate with Martin Heidegger. Meyer’s account centers on two pivotal phases --- Arendt’s years in Paris after fleeing Nazi Germany and her time in the United States leading up to the landmark publication of THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM in 1951 --- providing not only a meticulous reconstruction of her life but also a compelling invitation to rethink her legacy for our times.

In the ancient world of Aligaea, Laurel serves the Anima’s army, wielding plant magic, potions and powerful artifacts in the ongoing Task to restore ecological balance. Across centuries, she witnesses empires rise and fall, magical forces evolve, and the fragile order of the natural world begins to collapse. As a master of botanical magic, she crafts deadly charms, invisibility tinctures, and Birch Skin armor --- magical tools shaped by the pressures of war. But as the Imperium rises --- the greatest threat Aligaea has ever faced --- Laurel begins to question the ethics of everything to which she has devoted her life. If saving the world requires endless war, sacrifice and manipulation, is it a mission worth completing? Is the Task truly restoring balance? 

The Fairway Players return with Sarah-Jane and Kevin MacDonald as committee cochairs. This year, they have chosen to stage Agatha Christie’s THE HOLLOW. But auditions aren’t their only problem: Sarah-Jane’s sister is suddenly back in town under mysterious circumstances, having sold her home in Barbados and moved back into their mother Carol’s house. As always, they’re short on men and new Player Fran Elroy-Jones enlists a young married couple and the husband’s cousin to join. But no one wants to play the part of the hated Gerda, leaving Kevin and Sarah-Jane with no option but to reach out to an old member. As with any production, tensions run high and our intrepid lawyers Femi and Charlotte are tasked with uncovering exactly what happened on the opening night of The Hollow --- and whether the correct person has taken the blame.

Four children from wealthy families are sent to a strict prestigious boarding school. Haunted by the horrors they experience, they vow to disrupt the status quo. Years later, Tyler is a private investigator hired by James Arthur Knight Jr. to find his runaway daughter, Chana. At a seaside hotel in Turkey, he finds Chana lounging with her three wealthy friends. Enthralled by Chana, Tyler decides to keep his discovery to himself, accepting Mr. Knight’s payments while feeding him elusive information. One night, when Tyler lets slip his relationship with the American consul, Chana lights up with interest and asks if he can orchestrate a meeting. With a backdrop of of glitzy ex-pat parties and the gritty underworld of Istanbul, Chana conjures a plot involving the consul that sets into motion a dark chain of events.

Cork O’Connor, preparing for a family trip into the Boundary Waters, is troubled by ominous visions about his future. Ignoring the warnings, he uncovers signs of violence while searching for his missing friend, Cordell Bishop. Soon, he is forced to negotiate with dangerous criminals, the Kennedy brothers, who are seeking their late father’s hidden stash. Facing escalating danger and difficult choices, Cork grapples with his darkest instincts as he helps others escape and eventually takes justice into his own hands.

1919: Frankie has always been the black sheep of isolated Boone’s Ferry, Vermont. Her uncle has been training her in the science of medicine, something the townspeople are wary of. When a mysterious illness strikes the town and the community suspects supernatural forces, the two desperately search for a logical explanation. Patient zero seems to be the town’s knackerman. 2016: Siblings Ashley and Malcolm lost their mother two years ago. When their grandmother dies, they inherit a property in Boone’s Ferry and embark on a trip to their ancestral home. The idyllic town is full of autumnal décor and small-town charm. But some of the townspeople aren’t very welcoming and they have some unsettling traditions, like leaving offerings to a vengeful spirit.

When Patrick is invited by his girlfriend to join her and her family on a luxury holiday, he has no idea that he is about to be plunged into a nightmare and a plot to murder the patriarch’s younger fiancée. Arriving at the house, Patrick meets Holly’s dad, along with her brother Lewis and older sister Miranda. Also on the trip is the widowed father’s bride-to-be, Jasmine, who is around the same age as the three siblings. To make things worse, Jasmine is an almost exact doppelganger of their mother before she got sick and died. Patrick finds himself in the middle of this viper’s nest, trying to keep out of the family crosshairs. He starts to suspect that Lewis has dark plans for Jasmine --- putting himself in peril as a potential witness who could mess up his scheme.