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The Giver of Stars

Set in Depression-era Kentucky and rooted in true events, the story of a group of young women who defy the odds to bring knowledge to a remote mountain community.

The Mister

A wealthy British aristocrat falls in love with his Albanian housekeeper, unaware that she is on the run from human traffickers.

The Racketeer

A federal judge is murdered at a lakeside cabin and the contents of his safe emptied. The only man who knows the whos and whys is a former attorney serving time in federal prison who hopes to parlay that into getting revenge on the people who put him there.

Uprooted

Follows a young woman who lives near a corrupted woods where people rely on the powers of a wizard to keep the evil at bay.

An Untamed State

The daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father's Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom.

China Rich Girlfriend

On the eve of her wedding, Rachel Chu has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk her down the aisle. But when a chance accident reveals his identity, Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor, a world where people attend church in a penthouse, where exotic cars race down the boulevard, and where people aren't just crazy rich … they're China rich.

Dry

When a California state sponsored deal for diverted water falls through and the water mains in Southern California run completely dry. Stores of bottled water last only a matter of days, and the government can't mobilize fast enough to provide water for its 23 million citizens. A group of teenage friends are forced to band together when chaos breaks out in their community, and what ensues is a frighteningly real survival scenario.

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe and his fellow returning knights suffer to different degrees from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following their ultimately failed exploits against Saladin and his successful recapturing of Jerusalem.

Long Way Down

Set during a sixty second elevator ride, a young man struggles to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.

Nevermoor

Born on Eventide, Morrigan Crow's fated to die at midnight on her ninth birthday. She is spared when rescued by a mysterious stranger, and after they are chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, they escape to a secret city called Nevermoor.

On the Island

Centers on a 32-year-old English teacher who tutors a 16-year-old boy at his family's Maldives summer home. En route to join his family, their seaplane crash-lands, stranding the two on an uninhabited island where they develop a strong relationship that's tested years later when they're rescued.

One Minute to Midnight

During the the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U-2 pilot took off from Alaska, lost his bearings and ventured inside the Soviet Union, just as each side was looking for provocation to start a nuclear war.

Opening Belle

In 2007, a woman juggling motherhood with a career on Wall Street must deal with the impending financial crisis while raising three children.

Pax

The story about love and defining your family is about a boy who is separated from his pet fox and how they try to find each other again during the devastation of war.

Sweet Valley High

Two teenage girls, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, live in Sweet Valley, Calif. Jessica is the more conniving and materialistic of the sisters, and usually needs help from the more practical Elizabeth when her schemes go awry.

The House Across The Lake

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than meets the eye—and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.

The Light We Lost

The story follows a young couple who meet at Columbia University on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Their relationship to one another – and to the world – is forged on the day.