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The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques by Henry Russell
A new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Explores key novels, and also looks more generally at genres, themes and techniques.
Decoding Your Cat: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Cat Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent Or Change Unwanted Ones by American College of Veterinary Behaviorists
The cutting-edge, scientifically accurate, definitive book on the most popular behavioral issues that cats face.
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
A book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo through youth and shape our lives forever.
2021 Pulitzer Prize History: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
The untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America.
Lost Roses by Martha Kelly
Set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, featuring Caroline Ferriday’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.
The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
An enveloping, exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, a story of one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his murder in a case of mistaken identity.
The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert
Clementine, an American ex-pat and notorious thief is drawn out of retirement and into one last scam when the Nazis invade Paris on the eve of World War II.
Sunflower Sisters by Martha Kelly
The story of Caroline Ferriday's ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Ann-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists.
The Problem of Alzheimer’s: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease Into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Jason Karlawish
A definitive and compelling book on one of today’s most prevalent illnesses.
Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and connectedness in the age of environmental collapse and ecological awakening.
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Harris
An electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life.
Bloodless by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, Georgia.
The Island by Ben Coes
America is about to face the deadliest terrorist attack ever on its own soil. No one sees it coming, no one has prepared for it, and no one can stop it.
Complications by Danielle Steel
Scandal and tragedy erupt against the backdrop of an exclusive Paris hotel.
The Noise by James Patterson
Sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse.
Cul-De-Sac by Joy Fielding
A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac.
Vortex by Catherine Coulter
Agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with very powerful figures from the past who could wreak havoc in the present.
Choose Me by Tess Gerritsen
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant, so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene she knows in her gut there's more to the story.
The Adjustment Bureau
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
7 Below
A group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Jack Reacher works to exonerate Maj. Susan Turner after she is accused of treason, and his quest leads him to a conspiracy involving the murder of soldiers.
1500 Steps
This high school drama is set in the beautiful Sydney beach suburb of Cronulla where Jonas "Jobe" O'Brien, a sixteen year old boy lives in a struggling single parent family.
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
A gangster is hired to deliver a bag crammed with severed heads to a crime boss who wants proof of their former owners' demise. On a commercial flight, the head-stuffed bag gets switched with one belonging to a young man on his way to visit his girlfriend and her parents.
The 6th Day
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself, Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement.
Wrath of Man
A man must move hundreds of millions of dollars for an armored truck company in Los Angeles.
A Quiet Place: Part II
The Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Supernatural: The Complete Series
Carry on with the Winchester Brothers. Sam and Dean spend their lives on the road, battling every kind of otherworldly threat. Over the years, in dozens of bloody adventures, they face everything from the yellow-eyed demon that killed their mother to vampires, ghosts, shape-shifters, angels, fallen gods, and even Lucifer and God themselves.
Spiral
Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, Detective Zeke Banks and his partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer's morbid game.
Mortal Kombat
MMA fighter Cole Young must train to unlock his true power and stand with Earth’s greatest champions against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
After SpongeBob's beloved pet snail Gary is snail-napped, he and Patrick embark on an epic adventure to The Lost City of Atlantic City to bring Gary home.
Ice Age: The Meltdown
When Manny, Sid and Diego discover that miles of melted ice will soon flood their valley, they must warn everyone and figure out a way to escape the coming deluge.
The Vault
A team of master thieves plan to break into an impenetrable vault to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside.
The Marksman
Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border. But his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel.
Nobody
After failing to fight for his family during a robbery, an unassuming father calls on skills from his hidden past to become a lethal vigilante blazing a wild ride to revenge.
Godzilla Vs. Kong
Godzilla and Kong clash in a battle for the ages. As Monarch embarks on a mission into uncharted terrain, a human conspiracy threatens to wipe the creatures from the face of the earth.
Chaos Walking
A young man must discover his inner power and unlock his planet's dark secrets to save a mysterious girl who crash-lands on his planet.
Ad Astra
Astronaut Roy McBride travels to the edges of the solar system in search of his father and in effort to unravel a mystery which threatens the survival of Earth.
Alpha
A young boy becomes unlikely allies with a lone wolf, enduring countless dangers and overwhelming odds to survive the harsh wilderness and find their way home before the deadly winter arrives.
Vegas Vacation
The Griswold family hit the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls, Las Vegas.
The Postman
Set in a post-apocalyptic American West. In the year 2013, a massive war has left most of the country in total disarray.
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Friends from college make a pact to marry each other if they are not married by 28. When Michael gets engaged Julianne will stop at nothing to stop the wedding.
City of Lies
Disgraced L.A.P.D. detective, Russell Poole, is unable to solve his biggest case, the murders of music icons Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. Poole enters into an uneasy partnership with a "Jack" Jackson, to put this case to rest.
Raya and the Last Dragon
Travel to the world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons lived together in harmony long ago. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it's up to a lone warrior to track down the last dragon to restore the land and its people.
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