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The Undergrads: All-Nighter by Julie Murphy is a forthcoming title from Balzer + Bray...

Catpurrcino is hosting its first book club. But will the love of a good romance novel bring together two unlikely lonely hearts to begin a love story of their own?

Jia and Imani’s thirteen-year friendship has endured it all, from divorce and the early trials of motherhood to career upheavals and family betrayals. So their decision to start their own small business, Hart & Harlowe, is rooted in their profound trust in one another. That is, until they find themselves on opposing sides of a life-changing business offer. To make matters worse, the only other person with the power to tip the scales—their new cutthroat investor, Ravi Patel—is having an affair with Imani. And Jia doesn’t know until he’s found in Imani’s home . . . dead on the kitchen counter.

1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the counter-culture revolution that flourishes during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is more into the messages of love and peace than Winnie Hartley, who has just graduated from UC Berkeley determined to make it as a poet. When she reconnects with her high school boyfriend Lincoln Salyer, it feels like her life is finally everything she wants it to be. Meanwhile, her sister Miranda throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard, determined to make California wine that rivals French.

It's 2007, and Mr Sidhu is the sub-postmaster of the local post office in Richmond. He's grieving the passing of his wife and is preoccupied with honouring his final promise to her: to make sure his two grown-up children are settled and comfortable, which means helping Raju buy his own place and seeing to it that Meenu finally marries her long-term fiancé, Craig. But Mr Sidhu is thrown off course when he begins developing feelings for his co-worker Rose, and everything begins to change, including his relationship with his children. And then Mr Sidhu's weekly accounts begin reporting a loss.

When Daisy wakes up next to James – the annoying black sheep of their friendship group – she can’t believe what she’s done. The problem is there are no good men left. At least, that’s what Daisy and her best friend Maya think. They’re all taken. Even the average ones have beautiful, seemingly perfect girlfriends. Fed up with modern dating, Daisy and Maya decide to start 'The Project' to create a good guy out of some frankly embarrassing raw material. And who better to start with than James, the man who once told her he's never cried in his entire life and sounded proud of that fact?

Brendan's best friend, his only friend, is Ronan McCoy. He knows things about Brendan that no one else does: about his job washing the cars at Feeney's Funeral Home, about the loneliness he sometimes feels even when surrounded by hundreds of others at school. But Brendan never told Ronan about the dark feeling that sits at the bottom of his stomach, the feeling that tells him something bad is coming. It never comes when Ronan's around. Ronan is smart and sporty and popular, totally comfortable in his own skin: all the things that Brendan himself isn't.

The Emilys is a capacious, profound book about how love of all kinds—love between friends, between mothers and kids, between strangers and neighbors, love for the earth—opens up new possibilities. It asks: How will we learn to live in an altered world? How will we keep each other safe? And when the darkness comes, how will we find joy?

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Looking for Jane comes a riveting novel about one journalist's harrowing journey into an infamous real-life 1960s women's prison—and the detective who uncovers her story decades later.

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Five years ago, Greer left her family’s summer camp in the mountains of Georgia and vowed she’d never return. An idyllic season had turned into a nightmare after a mysterious Phantom began stalking the camp—and ended with Greer’s friend and fellow counselor dead. Losing Steph shattered everything, and Greer’s been fleeing from the grief ever since. But then Greer’s mother dies, and Greer finds herself back at Dread’s Cove, surrounded by the people she was closest to that intense summer.

Beth Greenwood has spent her life playing it safe. She's been a graphic designer at the same company for a decade, she dutifully meets men from the apps for dinner and sometimes casual sex, she thinks about decorating her sterile, small apartment. Her comfort and joy are her Sunday catch-ups with her sister Elspeth, whose perfect life, very different from Beth’s, has recently started to unravel. And then one day Beth meets a woman who invites her to join a secret club. It’s not knitting or books; it’s living out an experience you’ve always wanted to have.

Blythe Carney is long over the disappointment of seeing her early dreams of becoming a hotelier for her family's business, the Hope Square Hotel, snatched from her. Now she owns Ivy Hill House, the most exclusive guest house on Pin Hill Island. She can't help feeling, though, that she's not living the life she was meant to. That somehow, it fell into her younger sister Rae's lap, and there wasn't a single thing she could do to stop it.

Following the loss of his scientist wife to cancer, a grieving step-dad is contacted by a professor wanting to honour his late wife's work with a posthumous award. Despite the ceremony taking place in Zurich he accepts, hoping that by extending the invitation to his seventeen-year-old step-daughter, in the form of an Inter-railing summer holiday across Europe, he might somehow renew their fractured relationship following eighteen months of unanswered texts and messages since she moved in with her dad, a well-known actor.

The new novel from Claire Daverley: a love triangle that will fill you up and keep you guessing . . .

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Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he died seven months ago. So she spends her days hidden away at an underfunded aquarium with her specimens and a draft of the jellyfish guide she and Aldo had been working on together. His voice is alive in the notes in the margins, and it’s enough. Almost. Until she receives a call from Nadia, one of the few other humans she’s loved but whom she hasn’t heard from in years, asking for her help.

Fifteen-year-old Mina’s whole world is her two best friends, but after an unexpected kiss, the established dynamics of their trio quickly unravel. Everything that was once shared openly, from clothes to secrets, now feels impossibly fragile. Loyalties shift and tensions simmer across the long days of this pivotal summer, where the girls have nowhere new to go and everything new to feel.

Jade, Stef, and Zoe are hiking Washington's Bones Hollow Trail, braving cougars, black bears, and the storms that roll in without warning. The friends' paranoia isn't helped by listening to a true crime podcast about the serial killer who once roamed this same forest. Then when Stef twists her ankle—badly—there's no one to hear them scream for help. The only sign of life for miles is a cabin that looks to be straight out of a horror movie, with a man who's all too eager to invite them in.

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