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Tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank has perfected commercial time travel, though it’s so expensive that it’s open only to the very wealthiest. His company has been approved for one route: a journey back to London in 1941, to the days of the Blitz, allowing the super-rich to experience the aerial bombardment of the capital during World War II. To immortalize his achievement, Frank enlists filmmaker Phoebe Hunt to create a fly-on-the-wall documentary. On her first day shadowing Frank, she is set to witness the return of a billionaire and his family from their trip to the past. But instead of an awe-filled return, she captures the group arriving bloodied and traumatized, with one of their number missing. Phoebe recognizes the missing woman, knowing she’s not who she claims to be. It seems increasingly clear that she had sinister motives for returning to the past --- and that people close to Phoebe are in danger.

After securing a teaching job at a dysfunctional high school, loner Robin moves to South Bend, Indiana, where she’s paired with an eerily perfect roommate, Naomi. Freshly estranged from her abusive parents, Robin obsesses over two goals: to be the best teacher at the school, despite never having taught, and to become best friends with Naomi. Meanwhile back home, Robin’s brother must decide between being loyal to his sister or their parents. Just as Robin grows closer to her students and Naomi, she receives earth-shattering news from her brother. Desperate to cope, Robin redoubles her efforts to befriend Naomi, spiraling even deeper into obsession and self-sabotage. Everything comes to a head when one of Robin’s many bad choices comes back to bite her.

Lady Genevieve Burnsby, her pet piglet and her septuagenarian husband travel to a haunted abbey in the Scottish Highlands. Evie is excited to meet a ghost, but she didn’t expect the funny, quirky guests to become the friends she’s never had. And she certainly didn’t imagine meeting Sir Godric Everly, a sardonic, witty solicitor who loathes her husband. Yet as secrets and lies turn Evie’s world upside down, Sir Godric becomes the one person she can trust. When ghosts, multiple wills and a shocking marriage certificate bring Lord Burnsby’s past crashing into his present, Burnsby promptly dies, leaving Evie free to remarry. More importantly, she has to figure out whose identity is false, whose vows are dishonorable, whose truths could destroy her reputation --- and where her heart belongs.

New York Times bestselling author and former Sports Illustrated journalist Lars Anderson plunges into Tom Brady’s childhood to discover the origins of what Brady later described as his “sickness”: his category-five obsession with the game. From more than 350 original interviews with people who know the quarterback on and off the field, Anderson paints a detailed psychological portrait of Tom Brady, a self-described loner whose life is defined by discipline, resilience, a fascination with preparation, an intolerance for wasted time, and a relentless pursuit of the extraordinary. What he finds is a man riddled with contradiction, defined by both a prolific career of unmatched success on the field and the agonizing cost of greatness in his personal life.

A scorching heatwave marks the start of the summer in Devon. Detective Matthew Venn is called in to investigate a puzzling death, when the body of a young woman, Lottie, is found in the swimming pool of a luxurious holiday home. The girl’s best friend, Hannah, whose family owns the house, is missing. The girls had arrived a few days earlier to celebrate the end of their school exams, quickly stirring unrest in the small community with incendiary social media videos mocking the place as parochial. The fact that Hannah’s father, Paul Armstrong, is a rising political star with powerful enemies draws intense media scrutiny to the case. With the summer heat come holidaymakers, and it emerges that some of them may have stronger connections with the Armstrong family than first thought. Venn knows all too well that the real answers lie not in what people say, but in the silences that they keep.

Alexander the Great: a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon who ruled most of the known world by his mid-20s. For centuries, historians, refugees, poets and explorers have told his story, and yet Alexander himself has remained a mystery. But over the last few years, a series of remarkable discoveries has changed everything. From the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and the dust of Central Asian hillsides, the remains of Alexander’s cities have emerged. The diaries of Babylonian astronomers who knew him have been deciphered. The tombs of his ancestors have been unearthed. Now, for the first time since antiquity, it is possible to tell a different story. The story of a young man whom almost no-one noticed, until the day he became king. A king who became a hero, a hero who became a living god, and a god who died broken-hearted in Babylon.

On a rainy night, Luke Oshel gets stood up halfway through dinner. But she leaves an old photograph under her napkin --- Luke as a child, a dead body in the shadows of his bedroom, and a terrifying masked man. He has no recollection of this event. Then more photos disrupt his life --- Luke posing with murder victims, covered in blood --- and he falls back into the deep paranoia and repressed memories he’s tried to leave behind. All the drugs and alcohol, therapy and hypnosis sessions have never conquered his deepest fear --- that he hasn’t escaped the hidden legacy of his late father, who killed his victims by exsanguination. But now there is a new string of serial killings, and the evidence all points to Luke. As his journey to uncover the truth unfolds, he must chase his father’s darkness through a centuries-old secret and learn what monsters truly are. And decide if he’s one of them.

When the Marquess of Queensberry left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: “For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite.” The most celebrated playwright of his day famously sued for libel, which led to his arrest, criminal prosecution and ultimately prison. From then on, his gilded existence spiraled into public disgrace, humiliation and an early death. But what if he had simply ignored the insult? What direction might his life have taken? This is the premise of John Boyne’s extraordinary new novel, THE WEIGHT OF ANGELS. Rather than dying in penury in Paris at age 46, what if Wilde had lived to bear witness to the momentous events and cataclysmic changes of the first part of the 20th century, and even influence some of them? What if the second half of his life were as dramatic, tumultuous and exhilarating as the first?

In Alvion, magicians have always ruled beside kings. Blessed at birth by one of the seven planets, their abilities are miraculous and extremely rare. At the moment of Bianca Mortlake’s birth, the stars and planets aligned just so, making her the first Moonborn magician in over a thousand years. After a childhood training under the realm’s most powerful magician --- and alongside a most insufferable Venusborn named Roland --- Bianca lives a quiet life far from court. Until a chilling missive arrives in the night, summoning her back. Two queens have met the executioner’s blade, and one wrong move could see any of them next beneath its steel. As power is pulled between ruthless royals and courtiers like the tides by the moon, only this moon-blessed magician and her oldest rival can save the court --- and each other --- from the dark fate they see written in the stars.

SFPD Homicide Inspector Raquel Laing had a “difficult childhood,” until she was taken in by a loving family. She still lives with her adoptive sister, Dee, an online investigator. Trouble arrives with a case for Inspector Laing: the homicide of a drug dealer in San Francisco. But the everyday spirals into complications --- just as a search into the family’s ancestry is throwing Dee into her own world of turmoil. Raquel’s case blows up and she is removed from Homicide and put onto the Cold Case Unit. It leaves her free to look at some disturbing facts about her past --- and at the devastating news that Dee has uncovered in her search for the truth. The two sisters begin to suspect that they are tied together in ways that threaten attention from a powerful and vicious international cartel.