The creature of the pines
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A Map of Days
Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery—a […]
The House in the Pines
Turtles All the Way Down
…Turtles All the Way Down is somehow far darker [than The Fault in Our Stars], not so much because of the subject matter—though that's dark too—but because of how [Green] chooses to write about it. This novel is by far his most difficult to read. It's also his most astonishing…We spend long stretches inside Aza's […]
Right Behind You
“Devilishly clever twists propel Gardner’s tale.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Tales of the Peculiar
Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar—the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops—first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his #1 […]
Find Her
Publishers Weekly 11/30/2015 Florence “Flora” Dane, the victim and survivor at the center of bestseller Gardner’s compelling eighth novel featuring Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after 2014’s Fear Nothing), has a flat affect and a burning compulsion to meet sexual predators five years after the FBI rescued her from a man who abducted her while […]
The Bitter Season
Publishers Weekly 11/23/2015 Bestseller Hoag’s riveting fifth novel featuring Minneapolis detectives Nikki Liska and Sam Kovac (after 2013’s The 9th Girl) finds Nikki transferred to the newly funded cold case unit, where she hopes more regular hours will allow her to spend additional time with her adolescent sons. Her first case lacks leads and evidence: […]
Devil's Bridge
Publishers Weekly 06/08/2015 In bestseller Fairstein’s subpar 17th novel featuring ADA Alexandra “Coop” Cooper (after 2014’s Terminal City), a paralegal steals Coop’s files for a sex trafficking case and gives them to the defendant. Then investigators find a connection between the theft and a shady self-styled pastor and community agitator with suspiciously close ties to […]
The Stranger
Library Journal Review Adam Price's biggest concern is whether his son will be part of the high school's traveling lacrosse team. During a team draft meeting, a stranger approaches Adam, giving him devastating news about his wife, Corinne. When Adam confronts Corinne, she asks him to give her some time and disappears, leaving him a […]