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Joan Goodwin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, dreams of going to space after seeing an ad for NASA’s space shuttle program. Selected in 1980, she trains at Johnson Space Center with fellow candidates. As they prepare for their first flights, Joan finds new passion and love, questioning her place in the universe. |
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When physics graduate Annie Fisk, a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, identifies an engineer's mis calculations, she is propelled into a new position where she's torn between her ambitions, her heart and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true.
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronautsby Loren GrushTells the extraordinary true story America's first women astronauts who made history in 1978 when they were selected to go into orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle, each of them making their mark as they helped build the tools that made the space program run. |
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A young and ambitious woman astronaut's life is upended by a fiery love affair that threatens the rescue of a 12-years-lost spacecraft and its crew of survivors. By the author of If, Then. |
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by Jan Gradvall Music Biography Through exclusive interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secrets to ABBA’s success. There has never been a group like ABBA. More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still makes people of the world dance and sing their hearts out. |
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Brothersby Alex Van HalenThis poignant memoir of brotherhood, music and enduring love celebrates the profound bond between brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen and chronicles their musical journey with personal anecdotes, untold stories and never-before-seen photos.
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Eternal Flame : The Authorized Biography of the Banglesby Jennifer Otter BickerdikeFeaturing exclusive insights from the band members themselves, this biography of the groundbreaking all-female pop band chronicles their meteoric rise to 1980s superstardom, the challenges of fame and their enduring legacy in a male-dominated music industry.
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Burning Down the House : Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rockby Jonathan GouldOn the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York City and showing how a group of art students brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream, forever changing the look and sound of popular music.
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Psychological Suspense, Thriller
When charming Nick Radcliffe enters Nina's life, her daughter Ash grows suspicious, uncovering unsettling secrets that connect them to Martha, a florist with a husband who keeps disappearing, leading all three women toward a chilling truth they never expected. |
Don't Open Your Eyes : A Novelby Liv ConstantineShaken by premonitions of a future where she hates her husband and her daughter is in danger, Annabelle's perfect life is shaken forcing her to decipher her visions before a single choice seals her fate and the future becomes reality. |
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We Live Here Nowby Sarah PinboroughAfter an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong.
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Kill Your Darlingsby Peter SwansonWendy and Thom's marriage is told in reverse, moving backward to witness key moments from the couple's lives—their fiftieth birthday party, Jason's birth, the mysterious death of a colleague—all painting a portrait of a marriage defined by a terrible act they plotted together years ago. |
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Sarah Beth Durst Fantasy, Romance, Cozy Brimming with love and magic, 'The Enchanted Greenhouse' is a standalone cozy fantasy romance about a librarian longing for connection, a timid gardener, and a mystery to unveil. |
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witchesby Sangu MandannaBreaking all the rules, Mika Moon travels to the mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic and, as she gets close to the House's residents, must decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for. |
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The Honey Witchby Sydney J. ShieldsOn the tiny isle of Innisfree, 21-year-old Honey Witch Marigold Claude, who is cursed never to find true love, is determined to prove to Lottie, a notorious skeptic, that magic is real but soon begins to care for her in unexpected ways, placing her home, her magic and her heart in danger.
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The Teller of Small Fortunesby Julie LeongTao is an itinerant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences…When a reformed thief, an ex-mercenary, a baker, and a slightly magical cat recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child, Tao starts down a new path with companions as big-hearted as her fortunes are small. But as she lowers her walls, the shadows of her past close in—and she’ll have to decide whether to risk everything to preserve the family she never thought she could have. |
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By Kristin Harmel Historical Fiction, Mystery Colette Marceau has spent her life stealing jewels guided by her mother's code: take from the cruel, give to the needy. During WWII in Paris, her mother Annabel was arrested, and her sister Liliane vanished during a raid, with a diamond bracelet hidden in her nightgown. Annabel was executed, and Liliane's body was found, but the bracelet disappeared. Seventy years later, it resurfaces in a Boston museum, unraveling Colette's attempts to put the past behind her. As she chases the bracelet’s secrets, she confronts old ghosts, an unexpected claimant, and the chance to solve her sister's fate - and maybe bring a murderer to justice. |
The Rumor Game : A novelby Thomas MullenWhen a reporter Anne Lemire's story about Nazi propaganda intersects with Special Agent Devon Mulvey's investigation into the death of a factory worker, they are led down a dangerous trail of espionage, organized crime and domestic fascism, which threatens to engulf the city in violence. |
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The Last Hopeby Susan Elia MacNealOrdered by British Intelligence to assassinate the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program, Maggie Hope teams up with couturier and spy Coco Chanel, but as the war reaches a fever pitch and the stakes keep rising, the choices she makes will reverberate around the globe and touch everyone she loves.
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Locked in Pursuitby Ashley WeaverWorking once again with her handler in the British government, safecracker Ellie McDonnell, as a rash of burglaries plague London and an unknown object arrives by a mysterious courier, must beat the thieves at their own game as World War II looms over the city. |
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