Camille needs an alibi. Aubrey agrees to give her one. Everyone at Chantilly's Bar noticed out-of-towner Camille Bayliss. Red lips, designer heels, sipping a Negroni. Flirted a little with a local but returned alone to her B&B before midnight in her sleek car. But that woman wasn't Camille Bayliss. It was Aubrey Price.

Nestled in an idyllic locale beside the sea, The Center is a place of rehabilitation and rebuilding. Students arrive nameless, their memories and sense of identity wiped by a strange illness. Each day, they attend classes that will help them relearn the right ways to speak and live; they practice the roles they'll assume once they've graduated and returned to society. In their free time, they negotiate a burgeoning social hierarchy... But as shards of memories--of pets, lovers, errands, and beloved music--begin to threaten the strict curriculum of The Center, some students start to question the definitions given to them, and explore the ways in which they might define themselves.

Madison Walker left Rome, Kentucky, determined to make it in the culinary world. But after years of chasing success in New York, all she has to show for it is her shattered confidence and a desperate need for a fresh start. Coming home isn’t part of the plan—until an unexpected job offer lands in her lap: the head chef position at a new farm-to-table restaurant in her hometown. The only catch? It comes from James Huxley, owner of Huxley Farm, her brother’s best friend. Madison and James are tasked with launching the dreamy restaurant in record time, but keeping things strictly professional soon becomes impossible, and the town can’t help but meddle in their relationship.

Yankees catcher Madden Donahue has loved Eve Mitchell since high school, but she always turns him down. When Eve is left caring for her sister’s kids, Madden offers marriage—for the health benefits. Eve agrees, but only if it stays private to protect his career and her reputation. She’s secretly loved him too, but fears losing her best friend, who once claimed Madden. As their fake marriage heats up, Madden must prove their bond is real—and worth risking everything.

Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to the exploited and lonely life of a human "oddity" as somebody’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers. The Fairchilds see in Alida a gifted and well-read girl in need of a loving family. With the couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it. Yet despite everyone’s overwhelming generosity and acceptance, Alida knows she is still a very different kind of girl. Her dreams bear that out. They’re vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears that they’re also warnings. And that it’s the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad world.

It's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the scene. She always gets what she wants. What she can't get for herself… well, that's what her mother is for. When a prairie-kissed family moves to town, all trad wife, woodworking dad, wholesome daughter vibes, Charleigh's entire self-made social empire threatens to crumble.

In a gripping and hauntingly atmospheric novel set against the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, a disgraced police investigator discovers that his path to redemption is paved with ice-and blood.

As a child, Mia Adair experienced a strange fame within the paranormal community due to her ability to talk with the dead. But Mia's gift dried up once adolescence set in. These days, she feels like she's nobody special - until she dies in a car crash and reawakens as a vampire. Forced to leave everything she knew, Mia must choose to live with one of two rival vampire families. As Mia learns about their age-old traditions and extraordinary powers, along with their forbidden romances and betrayals, she's drawn toward two very different loves. And as her gift returns, more potent than before, Mia realizes she'll need it to protect innocent lives - and save the only family she has left.

Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: There will be a story--or a story within the story--but not just yet. Of course, whether Departure(s) is mostly fiction or not, there is a lot of its author in it, including Barnes's reckoning with the blood disorder he has been living with since he was diagnosed in 2020, his long preoccupation with dying and grief, and his mordant sense of the indignities and lost opportunities we're prey to in love.

Radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. Seeking to be true to herself, she hitchhikes across the American West taking odd jobs. In distant Tibet, another life unfolds as remote from Evelyn’s as can be: the life of a boy named Tsering, raised as a Buddhist monk in the mountains of Tibet, who eventually becomes a high lama. And yet, their lives are strangely linked—as Evelyn discovers when a trio of Buddhist lamas show up at her door to announce that her five-year-old son Cliff is the seventh reincarnation of the illustrious Norbu Rinpoche.

In 1901 Oxford, apprentice bookbinder Lily Delaney feels trapped by her father’s failing shop and a male-dominated profession. When she discovers a burned book hiding a decades-old letter about love, fortune, and murder, she’s drawn into a dangerous mystery. Her search for the truth leads through eccentric booksellers, secret archives, and ruthless collectors. As sinister forces close in, Lily must decide if solving the mystery is worth risking her life.

In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, in a farmhouse, Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband ignores. There is affection, if not always love, in both homes: these marriages still hold some promise. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.

Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal's wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they've lost. Margaret's husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm's way--until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie--but nothing stays buried forever in a small town.

In her guise as Aladdin - the orphan who changes his world - Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know - to look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future, Winterson realizes through the power of books that she can read herself as fiction as well as a fact: I can change the story because I am the story. Weaving together fiction, magic, and memoir, this is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future - an invitation to look closer at our stories, and thereby ourselves, to imagine the world anew.

Nash is smart, tough, and fair. He has a wife, daughter, and a top job at Sybaritic Investments, earned through skill and grit. Though he’s never had grand adventures and works long hours, his life is happy and upscale. After his estranged father’s funeral, the FBI contacts Nash with a request: infiltrate Sybaritic to expose a money-laundering ring led by criminal mastermind Victoria Steers. Nash agrees, but when Steers discovers his role, she turns the tables. To survive and get revenge, Nash must become someone he’s never been—and even that may not be enough.

Young Alfie Logan can rewind any moment for a do-over--but must accept the results of his second try; having navigated through adolescence and finding seemingly lasting love with Gianna, he must confront an impossible choice when his power unravels during a casino arrest.

A former member of a revolutionary group seeks help from other revolutionaries to find his missing daughter.

Elphaba, cast out as the Wicked Witch, hides in the forest, fighting for Oz's oppressed Animals and seeking to reveal the Wizard's lies. Glinda, now a beloved public figure, enjoys fame in Emerald City but is troubled by her lost bond with Elphaba. As she tries to reconcile them, tensions rise, affecting Boq, Fiyero, and Nessarose, especially when a girl from Kansas arrives. In the face of rising conflict, Elphaba and Glinda must reunite, confronting truth and empathy to change Oz forever.

From 20th Century Studios, "Deliver Me from Nowhere" chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen's 1982 "Nebraska" album. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen's New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.