Walter Sparrow gets an antique book named “The Number 23” for his birthday. He begins to think that the book is based on his life. Walter begins to act like the main character, Fingerling, as his preoccupation with attempting to figure out the mysterious number 23 grows. Walter gradually learns the truth about “The number 23” with the aid of his family.
The Oprah Book Club selection and number one New York Times bestseller American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, which has sold over two million copies, is now available in paperback. Living in Acapulco is Lydia. She is married to a lovely journalist and has a son named Luca who is her life’s love. Despite the fact that Acapulco is starting to exhibit signs of instability due to the cartels, Lydia’s life is often not too uncomfortable. But none of their lives will be the same again after her husband’s candid biography of the newest drug lord is published.
When forced to run, Lydia and Luca end up joining the numerous individuals making the journey to America. Lydia quickly realizes that everyone is evading something. But where are they really racing to?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn’t even want them.”
“Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can’t trust a librarian, who can you trust?”
“Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication.”
“So Lydia is worried about all these things, and yet, she has a new understanding about the futility of worry. The worst will either happen or not happen, and there’s no worry that will make a difference in either direction. Don’t think.”
“He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.”
In this Southern-inspired supernatural thriller set in the 1990s, Dracula and Fried Green Tomatoes collide with Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes as a women’s book club fights to save their suburban community from a strange and attractive stranger who turns out to be a bloodsucking demon.
Patricia Campbell always envisioned a large life, but after giving up her nursing job to wedding a successful doctor and have children, Patricia’s life has never felt smaller. Her to-do list is never truly completed, her kids are ungrateful, her spouse is distant, and the days are long. Her book club, which consists of a group of Charleston mothers who are solely connected by their love of true-crime and suspenseful fiction, is the one item she has to look forward to. The FBI’s recent siege of Waco is more likely to come up in these discussions than the ups and downs of marriage and parenting.
However, when a creative and compassionate stranger moves into the area, rumors about the newcomer start to circulate at book club meetings. Although Patricia is initially drawn to him, she begins to suspect the newcomer of being involved when other neighborhood kids go missing. She starts her own inquiry, presuming he is a Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. The information she finds is even scarier, and soon she and her book club are the only ones standing between the community’s unknowing residents and the monster they’ve let into their homes.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”
“He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something…there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”
“Think of us what you will,” she thought, “we made mistakes, and probably scarred our children for life, and we froze sandwiches, and forgot car pool, and got divorced. But when the time came, we went the distance.”
“Being a teenager isn’t a number, ” Maryellen said. “It’s the age when you stop liking them.”
“I am not sure what the appropriate gesture is to make toward the family of the woman who bit off your ear, but if you felt absolutely compelled, I certainly wouldn’t take food.”
Sharon Bolton is back in ‘The Split’, an exciting new solo thriller about just a woman on the run that is tense, riveting, and has a surprise you won’t see coming.
The last boat of the summer is ready to leave the isolated Antarctic island of South Georgia, signaling safety to the local glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity often worries that her ex-husband Freddie will locate her, even in this remote location. She got a job on this remote island to avoid him, but now that he’s out after serving a murder conviction sentence, she knows he won’t stop looking for her.
However, a doctor at Cambridge who is looking into the history of Felicity and Freddie’s relationship discovers that Felicity has been on edge for a very long time. The only method he can think of to assist her is to leave for South Georgia himself in an effort to reach her first.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you…”
When Libby Day’s evidence led to the imprisonment of her fifteen-year-old brother, she was only seven years old. She has been idling ever since. Libby begins to pose questions she had never ventured to before after being contacted by a group that believes Ben is innocent. Did she recognize her brother’s voice? Although Ben was an outcast in their little town, was he murderous in nature? At the family property, are there mysteries to be discovered, or is Libby just thinking things up because she needs her brother back?
She begins to believe everybody in her family—especially Ben—had something to conceal that day. Now, twenty-four years later, it will be much more difficult to uncover the truth. Who shot the Day family to death?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.”
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty – we all have it.”
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn’t so”
“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don’t even ripple.”
Shannon Moss works with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s covert section. She is given the task of finding the missing teenage daughter of a Navy SEAL and solving the murder of his family in 1997 in western Pennsylvania. Moss learns that the missing SEAL was an astronaut onboard the spacecraft U.S.S. Libra, which was thought to have been lost to the Deep Time currents, but she is unable to alert conventional law enforcement of this information. Moss, who has personal experience with the psychological anguish of time travel, thinks that the SEALs’ encounter with the future is what has caused this brutality.
Moss travels across time to investigate potential futures in search of evidence to solve the current case. Moss is driven by her desire to discover the missing girl and a frightening link from her own history. To her dismay, the future reveals that not only the destiny of a family depends on her efforts, as she sees the Terminus—the frightening and cataclysmic end of humanity—rising over time’s horizon and speeding toward the present.
The Gone World is brilliant and unnerving; but, at its core, it is a story that is profoundly human.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There is no design. The universe isn’t kind or cruel. The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires.”
“The totality of human endeavour is nothing when set against the stars.”
“It used to be thought that hell was a lack of God, but hell is a lack of death.”
“Nothing blinks out, nothing ends. Everything exists, always exists. Life is but a dream, Shannon. Self is the only illusion.”
“Lambs are sacrificed but rats survive.”
A couple takes a private aircraft early in the morning in November with a destination of Geneva and flies into a storm. It just disappears from view shortly after that, and its debris is eventually found in the Alps. Matthew Werner, a financial insider at the significant offshore bank Swiss United, is one of the missing. Young widow Annabel, who discovered an encrypted laptop and a dubious client list, is left to deal with the mysteries he left behind. She realizes that Matthew’s death was not an accident and that she is now in the sights of his formidable foes as she starts a desperate search for answers.
Ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has at last reached the pinnacle. She will cease writing about wealthy families now that she is married to Grant Ellis and will actually belong to one. Although her ascent to the top of New York’s social scene is more alluring than any article could ever be, she decides to look into one more tale after the passing of her mentor. A few men who are too close to home are among the most influential men in the finance industry who are implicated in information Marina finds while investigating Swiss United. If Marina decides to publish the narrative, it might also include the solution to Annabel’s tragic search.
An ex-agent on the road from her former employers must take one more case in this riveting page-turner if she wants to clear her name and save her life. Few people were aware that she once worked for the American government. She was a specialist in her profession and one of the most closely guarded secrets of a secretive organization that doesn’t even have a name. And when they came for her without warning after deciding she was a liability.
She no longer regularly uses the same name or residence for an extended period of time. Even though they killed the only other person she could have trusted, she is still concerned about something. They want her to die quickly. She thinks it’s her only chance to remove the massive bullseye on her back when her former handler gives her a way out. But it requires accepting one final position with her former bosses. To her horror, the knowledge she gathers only makes things riskier for her.
She prepares for the hardest struggle of her life, determined to face the threat head-on, but finds herself falling for a guy who will only make it more difficult for her to survive. She must use her special powers in ways she never imagined as her options are quickly narrowed down.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You’ll make mistakes because it’s impossible to know what is or isn’t a mistake until it’s made.”
“Sometimes you cling to a mistake simply because it took so long to make.”
“I’ve never been drawn to someone the way I am to you, and I have been from the very first moment I met you. It’s like the difference between…between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time.”
“Dishonest people don’t believe honest people exist.”
From the creator of the best-selling Wayward Pines trilogy comes a mind-bending, never-ending astonishing thriller. Jason Dessen is looking forward to a calm evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their kid, Charlie, when his reality is shattered as he makes his way home through the frigid streets of Chicago.
“Are you happy with your life?”
Before the masked kidnapper knocks Jason Dessen out, he hears those last words. Before he wakes up and discovers himself strapped on a gurney with strangers in hazmat suits all around him. Before a man Jason has never met greets him with a smile and the words “Welcome back, my friend,” Jason’s life is not what it was in the world he awoke to. He does not have a wife.
He never had a son. And Jason is a recognized genius who has accomplished something truly exceptional, not just an ordinary college physics professor. something not attainable. Is the dream of this world or another one? And even if the house he recalls is true, how on earth can Jason return to the people he loves? The answers are found on a journey that is both wondrous and scary beyond anything he could have ever imagined. On this adventure, he will be forced to face his greatest self-doubts as well as a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable antagonist.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We’re more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
“It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches off into a new world.”
“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
“As long as I’m with you, I know exactly who I am.”
The truth is that Aven Green was born without arms, despite how much she enjoys telling people she lost them in an alligator wrestling fight or a wildfire in Tanzania. Aven moves across the country with her parents when they accept a position managing Stagecoach Pass, a dilapidated western theme park in Arizona, knowing that she will be asked the same question repeatedly.
When she unites with Connor, a classmate who also feels alienated due to his own disability, and they learn of a room at Stagecoach Pass that contains more mysteries than Aven could have ever imagined, her new life takes an unexpected turn. To resolve a mystery, assist a buddy, and confront your deepest fears are difficult tasks. Aven is soon to realize that, even without arms, she is capable of doing it all.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I felt like I was shining, and this time I thought maybe it wasn’t just the moon. Maybe the light was in me.”
“The only person I know who can pick their nose with their toes is Aven. She sure is a special little girl.”
“Mom likes to take me grocery shopping with her. She says it’s because I need to learn how to grocery shop on my own, but I really think it’s because she likes having a child slave to command.”
“all, there was a lot I needed to do with my life. I had places to see, things to try, new friends to meet. And light to shine.”
“I think Connor would be the last person to label you like that. You shouldn’t get so offended if someone calls you disabled, Aven. You DO have extra challenges that others don’t have. It DOES take you longer to do most tasks. Your movements ARE limited. There’s a big difference between saying you’re disabled and saying you’re incapable.”
The best novel about a troubled family in crisis has been written by award-winning author William Landay. It is a gripping, character-driven mystery that also tells a riveting story about guilt, treachery, and the horrifying speed at which life can spiral out of control.
For more than twenty years, Andy Barber has served as an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county. He enjoys spending time at home with his wife Laurie and son Jacob. He is well-liked in his town. However, Andy is taken by surprise when a startling crime rocked their New England community and his fourteen-year-old son was accused of killing a classmate.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents’ children and we become our children’s parents instead.”
“The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.”
“An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion – you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.”
“Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you”
“Predisposition is not predestination.”
All that is required is a quick DNA test. With just a brief mouth swab, you can be genetically matched with the ideal companion in no time. Match Your DNA makes that commitment. The business claimed to have discovered the gene that matches each of us with our soul mate ten years ago. Since then, millions of individuals have been linked globally. However, the discovery has some drawbacks: test results have destroyed numerous relationships and challenged conventional notions of dating, romance, and love.
Five very different persons have now each received a “Matched” notification. Each of them is about to find their true love. But not everyone gets to live happily ever after because secrets exist even amongst soulmates. Additionally, some are more stunning than others… The One is a fascinating book that demonstrates how even the most straightforward findings can have complex repercussions. It was a word-of-mouth sensation in the UK.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you’ve got the opportunity to love someone as much as they love you, then grab it with both hands and hold on to it for dear life.”
“Maybe when you took it back to basics, that’s what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.”
“There were others out there like him, which meant that Christopher was normal, just a different type of normal.”
“I also wanted to demonstrate how greedy we are as human beings. How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”
“It’d be like suing gun manufacturers on behalf of anyone who’s ever been shot. It’s not the fault of the weapon, it’s the user.”
Le Sommet has long been a dark spot, partially concealed by woodland and shrouded by menacing peaks. The previously abandoned sanatorium has recently been transformed into a five-star minimalist hotel, ending years of troublesome rumors.
The last place Elin Warner wishes to be is a towering, remote retreat in the Swiss Alps. However, Elin has taken a break from her work as a detective, so she really has no excuse not to accept her estranged brother Isaac’s and his fiancée Laure’s invitation to commemorate their engagement at the hotel.
Elin arrives in the middle of a potentially dangerous storm and immediately feels uneasy; there’s something about the motel that worries her. Laure is missing when they wake up the next morning, so Elin needs to trust her gut if they want to find her. The more time Laure is missing, the more anxious the other guests become because the storm has cut off all access to the hotel. Elin is under pressure to locate Laure, but nobody is aware that a second woman has vanished. She is also the only one who might have foreseen the peril that they are all in.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Grief is like a series of bombs exploding, one after another. Every hour, a new detonation. Shock after shock after shock.”
“Il faut bonne mémoire après qu’on a menti’
A liar should have a good memory.”
“She’s forgotten how easy it is to lose track of someone; the sum of their parts.”
“Seeing yourself like that, shadowy, distorted, it’s like looking into the darkest parts of your soul.”
“Anger is often unpredictable, a barrier to keeping things in check.”
A murder mystery with the Long Island setting of a prestigious prep school. Everything on Gold Coast, Long Island, including the upscale downtown shops, the well-kept beaches, and Jill Newman and her friends’ perfectly pressed uniforms, looks flawless. But nothing is as it seems, as Jill discovered three years ago.
Shaila Arnold, a clever and captivating friend of Jill’s from her freshman year, was murdered by her boyfriend. Graham confessed after that gloomy night on the beach, the case was resolved, and Jill tried to go on. Jill is currently in her senior year and she plans to make it the finest one yet. She is a senior and a Player, a member of the exclusive, not-so-hidden secret society at Gold Coast Prep.
Senior Players are the most popular in the school, attend the finest events, and earn the highest grades. Jill’s year is going to be this one. She is certain of it. But Jill’s hopes for the ideal senior year begin to fade as she begins to receive texts announcing Graham’s innocence. Who killed Shaila if Graham didn’t? Jill swears to find out, but going further could endanger her relationships and her future.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes it’s hard to know which qualities really define you, and which ones have been affixed to you by others so many times that you actually begin to believe them and claim them as your own.”
“Why did the boys have the power? Why did they make the rules while we dealt with the consequences?”
“It’s easy to convince yourself of something if you just pretend it’s the truth.”
“Their conversation continued as they debated the merits of Mario’s and Luigi’s, the two competing slice spots in town.”
“How can something so violent be my home.”
A lovely garden is located close to a remote mansion. This garden is home to lush flowers and shady trees. As well as a group of priceless “butterflies,” young girls who have been abducted and beautifully tattooed to match their namesake. The Gardener, a cruel, depraved man who is obsessed with collecting and keeping his beautiful specimens, is in charge of everything.
One of the survivors is brought in for interrogation once the garden is found. One of the most nauseating cases of FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison’s careers must be pieced together. However, the unnamed girl, Maya, turns out to be a mystery in and of herself. Maya exposes ancient resentments, new saviors, and horrifying tales of a man who would do anything to hold beauty hostage as her story swings and turns, gradually illuminating life in the Butterfly Garden. But as she divulges more, the agents are left to wonder what more she might be keeping secret.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
“I think a trauma doesn’t stop just because you’ve been rescued.”
“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact.”
“Beauty loses its meaning when you’re surrounded by too much of it.”
“My secrets are old friends; I would feel like a poor friend if I abandoned them now.”
Daunis Fontaine, who is biracial, not enrolled in the tribe, and the subject of a scandal, has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis puts her goals on waiting to care for her frail mother when tragedy strikes her family. Meeting Jamie, the charming new player on her brother’s hockey team, is one positive development.
Daunis decides to go undercover after witnessing a shocking murder that draws her into a police investigation. However, the lies—and fatalities—keep coming, and eventually, the threat comes too close to home. Will she go to any lengths to safeguard her village, even if it means shattering the only world she has ever known?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Inaction is a powerful choice”
“We love imperfect people. We can love them and not condone their actions and beliefs.”
“When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present. It’s even worse when you’re angry at the person. Not just for dying. But for how.”
“Kindness is something that seems small, Daunis, but it’s like tossing a pebble into a pond and the ripples reach further than you thought.”
“When our loved ones die, the love stays alive in the present.”
Missy, the youngest daughter of Mackenzie Allen Philips, is kidnapped while on a family vacation, and evidence suggesting that she may have been brutally killed is discovered in an abandoned shack in the middle of the Oregon woods. Mack receives a strange note urging him back to that cabin for a weekend four years later while he is experiencing his Great Sadness. The note seems to have come from God. On a winter afternoon, against his better judgment, he makes his way to the hut and enters his worst nightmare. The things he discovers there will alter Mack’s life forever.
The answers Mack receives to the age-old question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unfathomable pain?” will astonish you and possibly transform you as much as it did him in a time when religion seems to become less and less relevant. You’ll want to recommend this book to everyone you know!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”
“Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.”
“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”
Three shots were fired in Dallas on November 22, 1963, killing President Kennedy and altering the course of history. What if you could reverse the change? A man goes back in time to thwart the JFK assassination in Stephen King’s new, heart-stoppingly dramatic novel, which is a thousand-page masterpiece. Following the phenomenal success of Under the Dome, King transports readers to another instance—a period in actual history—when everything goes awry: the JFK assassination. Additionally, he provides an introduction to a figure with the ability to alter the course of history.
Jake Epping, a 35-year-old English teacher at Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, also works as a GED instructor for adults. One of the students gives him an essay, a grisly, terrifying account of the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father returned home and murdered his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry survived with a broken leg, as was evident from his awkward gait. The owner of the neighborhood diner, Jake’s friend Al, reveals a secret shortly after that: his cellar is a doorway to 1958. In an insane—and absurdly possible—mission to try to stop the Kennedy assassination, he enlists Jake. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, a life that defies all the laws of time and is filled with Elvis and JFK, big American cars and sock hops, a disturbed loner named Lee Harvey Oswald, and a stunning high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who ends up being Jake’s love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I’ll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it’s yours.”
“I’m one of those people who doesn’t really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”
“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
Monday It appears that only Claudia is aware that Charles is missing. More like sisters than pals, Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable. Claudia is concerned when Monday doesn’t show up for the first day of school. Claudia recognizes a problem when she doesn’t show up for the second day or the second week. She wouldn’t be left alone on Monday to deal with tests and bullies. Not with her grades on the line and the rumors from last year. More than ever, Claudia needed her best friend—and only friend. Monday’s sister April is even less helpful, and Monday’s mother won’t give Claudia a straight answer. Claudia learns that no one can recall when they last saw Monday as she continues to investigate the disappearance of her friend. How is it possible for a teenage girl to simply go without anyone noticing?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute.
Rumors eat up dreams without condiments.
Rumors do not have expiration dates.
Rumors can be deadly.
Rumors can get you killed.”
“Well, sometimes the people we love the most can hurt us the most.”
“Like the color pink, someone always sees the story different. Some see rose and magenta, and other see coral and salmon. When at the end of the day, it’s just regular old pink.”
“This is the story of how my best friend disappeared. How nobody noticed she was gone except me. And how nobody cared until they found her . . . one year later.”
“But when help isn’t invited, it ain’t nothing but an unwanted houseguest.”