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How do you make friends as an adult? Thats one question lonely Londoners Bryony, Harry, Jaime, Luke, and Donna would really like the answer to. They tend to do better with questions of a different varietytrivia questions like How did prosecco get its name? and Which Mariah Carey song has topped...

Valentina Riccardi is many things: beautiful, cultured, deadly. As one of Venices famous courtesans, shes perfectly positioned to seduce powerful men, get them alone, and assassinate them. Spies. Traitors. Who they are doesnt matteronly that they made an enemy of the Council of Ten, the shadowy...

Wesley Friends School is Washington, DCs most prestigious prep school, so of course Aki Hiyashi-Brown is proud to teach at it and send her daughter Meg there. Why wouldn't she be proud? Parents kill to have their kid enrolled at Wesley. Not only is Wesley the premier academic destination for the...

Daisy Ellery is back to doing what she does best: making pies and killing guys. And its about to get more dangerous than ever. Daisy knows the statisticdomestic violence perpetrated by cops is rampant. It was only a matter of time before she was called in to help. But when this request arrives...

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, a beautifully observed portrait of marriage, divorce, and reconciliation as an estranged couple embark on a road trip from small-town Ontario to B.C. to finally lay to rest the mystery that pulled them apart. Kathleen and Yannick have not...

Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalizedistracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young...

Dear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smellthe spraying. Everyones mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying entirely, which was nice because it made me feel that I wasnt like other people. From the outside...

In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughters name as she wanders the cliffside road where the child once worked. The mother searches and searches until, spent from grief, she throws herself into the sea, leaving her other children...

When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mocketts stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility...

At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses...

As she looks back on her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in Italy, the resistance, and the fall of Mussolini, the lives of the women in her family and her working-class neighborhood, rigorously committed to telling her side of the story. Alessandra...

The Halifax Hellions are the most scandalous, outrageous, ungovernable ladies in London. From the day of their debutin which Matilda smoked a cheroot and Margo tied a cherry stem in a knot with her tonguetheyve turned the ton upside down. But when Matilda elopes with a dangerous aristocrat...

For seven years, Matilda Halifax and her twin have been the most scandalous ladies in London. But when Matilda accidentally sells erotic drawings of the brooding, reclusive Marquess of Ashford, she hasperhapsgone a bit too far. Christian de Bord, Lord Ashford, knows what its like to be notorious...

In 1811, Winifred Wallace told one tiny lie. To secure her future as an independent sheep farmer, she invented an estranged husband named Mr. Spencer Halifax and forged their marriage record. Ten years later, her deception catches up with her: in the form of the disturbingly real, distressingly...

In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protge of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome...

Gillian has been happily divorced for several years and, after trying a few dating apps, prefers to stay that way. Navigating her way through dates with fat shamers and lackluster men has left her with no desire to do anything other than work in her garden in her spare time. Who needs rude...

Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious strangerbringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need and triggering a sequence...

To be loved by your father is to be loved by God. So says Mona Deanplaywright, actress, and daughter of a man famous for one great novel, a man whose needs and insecurities exert an inescapable pull and exact an immeasurable toll on the women of his family: Mona, her sister, her half sister...

For years, Teresa has meandered from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, unable to move ahead in any field or career, the dreaded move from one gig to another starting to feel unbearable. When a recruiter connects her with a contract position at AllOver, it appears to...

Jackie Stinsons best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie wants to be many things, but a martyr has never been one of them. She is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. In her new, sharp-edged body, she goes...