The Turnout
By: Megan Abbott
3.11
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers si…
Want to Read $ 6.99"-Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always closed. Until the adults finally decide to open them and then there's no shutting the door again."-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"-Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always closed. Until the adults finally decide to open them and then there's no shutting the door again."-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"-Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always closed. Until the adults finally decide to open them and then there's no shutting the door again."-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"The entire time Tchaikovsky was composing 'The Nutcracker,' Madame Sylvie told Dara once, he was mourning his beloved sister Sasha. He reanimated her through Clara. It explained the strange heaviness of the ballet, its grand melancholy, its piercing nostalgia. And the deathlessness of its vision of childhood, of innocence and escape. Our almost unbearable awareness that everything we're seeing is disappearing even as we watch, fluttering past us as the dancers do, slipping away like smoke. Every year, when the grand -pas de deux- -- the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince--begins, the audience's eyes fill with tears. Those shimmering sound of the celesta, like bells clear and pure, and we are flung backward. Time is conquered for a brief, luminous moment. Dara remembered one parent telling her that prayers from the Russian funeral mass were hidden in its opening bars. -We don't hear it-, he told her. -But we feel it nonetheless.-"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
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1. Zero Days
By: Ruth Ware
3.65
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller about a woman in a race against time to clea… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
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- contemporary
- mystery
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- audiobook
"The wall around the perimeter was child's play."-Ruth Ware, Zero Days
"... they were just one part of a vast dark web of unseen players ... And yes, they could be fought, maybe some individuals might even be arrested, but you might as well try to prosecute cancer. They …"-Ruth Ware, Zero Days
"If I shut my eyes, I could picture him... The thought gave me a kind of peace, the idea that he could be out there somewhere-just beyond my reach. But it was a dishonest peace, and I knew that as muc…"-Ruth Ware, Zero Days
2. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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- adult fiction
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- fiction
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- mystery
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- audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
3. Bright Young Women
By: Jessica Knoll
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
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"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
4. One Perfect Couple
By: Ruth Ware
3.68
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more
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- adult fiction
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- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
5. The Heiress
By: Rachel Hawkins
3.87
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more
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- adult fiction
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- adult
- audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress
"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress
6. End of Story
By: A.J. Finn
3.10
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery… read more
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- mystery thriller
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7. I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.61
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more
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8. The Ballerinas
By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a… read more
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- audiobook
"Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
"Walking through an airport is the only way to be somewhere and nowhere at the same time. [Delphine Léger]"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
"I just knew I never wanted to live in a world where you weren't my friend. [Lindsay Price, to Delphine Léger]"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
"Sometimes... I think the real tragedy of life is that we're always the people we were, and it's only our outsides that change."-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
9. The Turnout
By: Megan Abbott
3.11
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers si… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"-Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always c…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"The entire time Tchaikovsky was composing 'The Nutcracker,' Madame Sylvie told Dara once, he was mourning his beloved sister Sasha. He reanimated her through Clara. It explained the strange heaviness…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"The woman's body twitched suddenly, as if remembering something, and she covered her mouth with a stiff mitten. Dara knew what it was. She'd felt it a dozen times that day already. The body rememberi…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
10. We Were Never Here
By: Andrea Bartz
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling aut… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"I'd been so focused on running away, I'd almost missed what I was running to."-Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
"The irony: I'd been thrilled when Aaron noticed me, and when, tonight, he called me his girlfriend. But on the street, I tried to creep past any other male gazes, ghostlike. That's womanhood, I suppo…"-Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
"Or even a solo trip - if the yoga teacher was correct, wasn't it my duty as a human being with eyes and legs and a beat-beat-beating heart to experience things, to explore? All the hand-wringing abou…"-Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here
11. Good Company
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship.Flora Mancini has be… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
12. Prom Mom
By: Laura Lippman
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get a… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"How do you live with yourself? How does anyone live with themselves, in the end? The way I see it, you either admit to yourself exactly who you are - or you lie to yourself the way you lie to the res…"-Laura Lippman, Prom Mom
13. The It Girl
By: Ruth Ware
3.85
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasion… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
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- contemporary
- mystery
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- crime
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"The usual. Soft focus, syrupy memories of April and her potential. Sad-faced pictures of h to add a prurient kick to the piece-a hint of scandal, maybe. A student rivalry. A sniff of drugs, or promis…"-Ruth Ware, The It Girl
"The usual. Soft focus, syrupy memories of April and her potential. Sad-faced pictures of her friends and family pondering all they've lost. Anecdotes about punting and May balls and bright futures. A…"-Ruth Ware, The It Girl
14. The Husbands
By: Chandler Baker
3.48
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, is back with The Husband… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"We can elbow and push all we want for every packed lunch, picked-up towel, put-away pan, and scheduled doctor’s appointment, but until paternity leave is normalized, until schools call fathers about …"-Chandler Baker, The Husbands
15. Gone Tonight
By: Sarah Pekkanen
3.82
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for … read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
16. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
By: Lisa Unger
3.45
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling lo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal."-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
"From where I stand, hidden, watching them through the glass, they are the picture of the perfect family. But I know better. What people show the world is rarely the whole truth, especially these days…"-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
"...there is nothing certain in life but death. We may labour under the delusion that we know what the day ahead of us holds, what the hour holds. But we do not. We may think our death, our very certa…"-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
"Privilege. A word that suddenly inspired jealousy, resentment, rage. Some people were born with it, that beautiful ease, that aura of never worrying about making it, surviving. Some stood on the othe…"-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
17. Reckless Girls
By: Rachel Hawkins
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic s… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
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- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
18. Bright Burning Things
By: Lisa Harding
3.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast ca… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
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- audiobook
19. The Villa
By: Rachel Hawkins
3.64
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, s… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa
20. The Family
By: Naomi Krupitsky
3.57
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of an American Elena Ferrante, a captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two… read more
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21. The Club
By: Ellery Lloyd
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062997425. From the author of People Like Her comes a smart … read more
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"That there was some sort of justice involved, in watching some of these people- these terrible fucking human beings, these terrible fucking men- beg, grovel, face for the first time ever the conseque…"-Ellery Lloyd, The Club
