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Murder Bimbo, a 32-year-old sex worker turned unlikely assassin, has just killed extremist political hopeful Meat Neck, and now has only two days, her wits, and a high-speed internet connection to save her own life. Her best bet is to email a feminist podcast: Justice for Bimbos. The host has a cult following, and a famous affection for maligned and murderous women. In a series of emails written over forty-eight hours from a secret location, MB explains how she was recruited and trained by a cabal of code-named men who claimed to be government agents.

When he died, Nërëus Forbes, frontman of The Marshalls, was the most famous rockstar in the world. 40 years after his death, Nërëus' status as an icon is undisputed, but the circumstances around his death remain uncertain. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Winter Harris, an investigative journalist and daughter of The Marshalls guitarist, decides to interview those who knew Nërëus best. But when her father confesses a dark secret, hidden for decades, Winter suddenly has evidence that could bring both of their lives crashing down.

It’s been disastrous since Bud and Catherine opened up their marriage, and none of the Flynns can remember the last time a meal was cooked, a load of laundry was done, or a social code was abided by. Not that Catherine and Bud aren’t trying – and trying new things. Bud still drives to his job at the Harbor(TM) in the family minivan, which, yes, is also now his home, and Catherine still refuses to conform to domestic pressures – she’s an artist, a woman, and no one understands her! And the girls? Surely they’re fine, whatever it is they’re up to.

Adi has been dropped alone on Isla Santa Flora, a six-hour boat ride from the closest land mass, not a soul around for miles and miles and miles (excepting perhaps the occasional fisherman or shark finner). Adi's armed with maps, rations, a .308 bolt action rifle, a scope with German optics, and more than enough ammunition to rid Santa Flora of its invasive species.

Sharp-eyed and sweltering, Little One masterfully captures the dread of facing your deepest desires, when the hunger to become your best self threatens to drown out everything else. An achingly astute look at modern womanhood and wellness culture, it tackles the enduring question: How far would you go to be good?

Elly does not believe God loves her. It’s what she was once told. So, she decides, one morning over a bowl of celery, that she must find another one that does. From Essex and Cornwall to the streets of New York, spanning the decades from 1968 to the events of 9/11, we follow Elly’s gradual loss of innocence through the evolving secrets she shares with her lifelong confidante, her brother Joe, and her increasing concern for an unusual best friend, Jenny Penny, who bears secrets of her own.

It’s the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can’t dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the company’s new twenty-four-year-old CEO, who has more charisma than work experience, the growing distance between D__ and his longtime girlfriend, or a mounting sense of unreality in the wake of the first delirious year of the Trump administration, there’s a sense that things are speeding towards collapse—and that they’ve perhaps been unraveling for some time.

This lyrical runaway Swedish hit follows a reclusive, elderly couple who cross paths with a pair of twentysomething newcomers in a small mountain town, revealing an unexpected, shared history and the reclamation of a nearly extinct culture.

Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors who'd developed a system of thought that focused on enjoying the life they'd snatched back from Hitler, Sylvie grew up believing in the tenacious pursuit of pleasure. So, when she finds herself trapped in a suffocating, emotionally abusive marriage, no one is more unmoored than Sylvie herself. With enormous fortitude, Sylvie frees herself and turns to graduate school, determined to prove her new philosophy: Straight women will find true liberation and happiness only once romance is eradicated.

We're in East Harlem, in the mid-eighties, and the large and formidable (some say crazy woman) Twin Johnson discovers the body of Anita's boy, Tyrone, on the sidewalk. She does just what her uncle, who runs his basement crack den as a family business, warned her never to do: she calls the police, setting in motion a cycle of events that expand the consciousness of this struggling community. Anita, a postal worker, army widow, and church lady, is determined to solve her son's murder, but her quest for justice rattles the neighborhood.

In the present day, a woman lies in a hospital bed, watched over by her attentive, caring grandmother. The young woman was recently at a party and was seen jumping from the roof—but that couldn’t have been what happened, surely? In fits and starts, the grandmother begins to explain to her granddaughter the long tail of their family’s history, nestled in which may be the secret to why hardship and mystery have followed them through the centuries….

凄惨な殺害方法と稚拙な犯行声明文で世間を震撼させた「カエル男連続猟奇殺人事件」。十ヵ月後、事件を担当した精神科医・御前崎教授の自宅が爆破され、その跡からは粉砕・炭化した死体が出てきた。そしてあの犯行声明文が見つかる。カエル男の報復に、渡瀬＆古手川の刑事コンビもふたたび動き出す。さらにカエル男の保護司だった有働さゆりもアクションを起こし……。

新しく赴任した滝昇の指導のもと、めきめきと力をつけ関西大会への出場を決めた北宇治高校吹奏楽部。全国大会を目指し、日々練習に励む部員のもとへ突然、部を辞めた希美が復帰したいとやってくる。しかし副部長のあすかは頑なにその申し出を拒む。昨年、大量の部員が辞めた際にいったい何があったのか……。“吹部”ならではの悩みと喜びをリアリティたっぷりに描く傑作吹部小説シリーズ第2弾。

やさしい「月の魔法」のかかったとっておきの物語（スイーツ）で心繋がるひとときを。お菓子で想いを伝える日に読みたい、背中をそっと押してくれる物語。人気洋菓子店「月と私」の腕利きパティシエながら自分に自信がない三田村糖花を支える語部九十九は、お菓子にまつわる魅力的なエッセンスを物語としてお客様に届ける「ストーリーテラー」だ。

It’s 1995, and fourteen-year-old Tati is determined to uncover the identity of her father. But her mother, Nadia, keeps her secrets close, while her grandmother Gladys remains silent about the family’s past, including why she left Land’s End, Alabama, in 1953. As Tati digs deeper, she uncovers a legacy of family secrets, where every generation of Dupree women has posed more questions than answers.

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Glyph (a signifying mark – as in ‘hieroglyph’) is the second book of the interconnected pair that began with Gliff (a Scottish/northern word for a shock, a fright, a transient moment, a glance or sudden glimpse). Glyph will tell a story which is hidden in the Gliff so the two books will belong together but can be read independently.

It’s 1995, and fourteen-year-old Tati is determined to uncover the identity of her father. But her mother, Nadia, keeps her secrets close, while her grandmother Gladys remains silent about the family’s past, including why she left Land’s End, Alabama, in 1953. As Tati digs deeper, she uncovers a legacy of family secrets, where every generation of Dupree women has posed more questions than answers.

A young woman takes stock after the burglary of her apartment. A teenager becomes obsessed with the obituaries in a weekly magazine. Grandchildren mourn the grandparents who loved them and the grandparents who didn’t. Painters and almost-painters try to distinguish Good Art from Bad Art. People grapple with life-altering illness, unrequited love, and promises they have every intention of keeping. Some win the lottery. Others don’t.

Kent Duvall, a faded reality show winner, just wants another chance at glory—to find his way out of his depressing life and back to his highlight reel. When a scandal is captured on camera at a charity event, he gets his shot, on a new jungle survival show with seven other contestants. Each of them has been cast as a type—Ruddy the bully, Miriam the nerd, Ashley the love interest—but everyone is more than they appear.