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You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Shay Miller is pretty bummed about her life. She is working temp jobs until she can find a new job and she is in love with her roommate, who already has a girlfriend and only sees Shay as a friend. Then one day waiting for the subway, Shay witnesses a woman throw herself in front… Read More
Deadwater Fell
The Kendricks seemed like the perfect family. Tom was the village doctor and Kate taught at the local school. And then one night the family is killed and only Tom survives. The village is stunned. Kate is to blame because she had anxiety and depression but the police aren't so sure. They start looking into… Read More
He Started It by Samantha Downing
Beth, Portia, and Eddie are taking a road trip. Not just any road trip. They are taking the one that they took when they were kids with their Grandpa. He has died and in order to collect their inheritance they have to do they exact same trip and scatter his ashes at the end. Along… Read More
Hollywood Park: a memoir by Mikel Jollett
Mikel, frontman for the band Airborne Toxic Event and his brother were born into one of the most dangerous cults in America - Synanon. At the age of six months, the children were turned over the the cult "school", to be raised with the other members' children in what was essentially an orphanage. Rarely visited… Read More
The Return by Rachel Harrison
Elise has been drifting through life ever since she dropped out of college to follow her married boyfriend. She really doesn't know what to do with her life and then her best friend goes missing. Elise, Julie, Mae, and Molly were best friends in college but now live all over the country. Then Julie goes… Read More
Raven Lane by Amber Crowie
Raven Lane is a close knit cul-de-sac. Esme owns a restaurant and her husband, Benedict, owns a modeling agency, and their daughter is about to be a senior. Things have been a little rocky in their marriage lately and then the accident happens. Now all kinds of secrets are coming out. No one is as… Read More
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
The day has finally arrived when Claire Cook is leaving her abusive husband. The planning took a year to get everything right. Claire is going to Detroit for a fundraiser and from there she will escape to Canada. But the morning of the trip there is a change of plans. Her husband wants her to… Read More
The Chill by Scott Carson
Deep in the woods in upstate New York lies the Chilewaukee Resevoir, which is part of the vast system that provides water to New York City. Underneath it, lies the village of Galesburg, which was drowned in the early 20th century in order to build the dam, resevoir and tunnel system. Settled in the area… Read More
Boyfriend Material by Alexis J. Hall
As the son of two rock stars, Luc O'Donnell has always had to live with the public scrutiny that comes along with their fame. Now that his father (who Luc's never met in person) is making a comeback, the heat's really on. One compromising picture is all it takes to put his job into jeopardy,… Read More