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For fans of Louise Penny and Robert Dugoni, Illusionist is a contemporary crime thriller where PI McPherson must choose between killing an author at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest or letting a college student die.When an illusionist joins the Pines & Quill writing retreat, one of the owners vanishes without a trace in the middle of everyone, but the surrounding would-be witnesses don’t see or hear a thing. That’s when crime boss Georgio Gambino makes a checkmate move against his nemesis, Sean McPherson. He forces a writer in residence to kill another writer and frame McPherson. In a video call, Gambino warns the writer, “If you don’t follow orders, your daughter will die.” Then, he pans the camera to prove access to her college dorm room.McPherson discovers that Carmine Fiore, Gambino’s second in command, covets his boss' role and is staging a coup. As Gambino’s soldiers traffic drugs, weapons, and humans, Fiore plants incriminating evidence against the notorious Sureños gang. Can McPherson leverage that knowledge for a temporary truce and the gang’s help?The writers in residence—a former NASCAR driver, a professional triathlete, an architect turned house flipper, and a world-renowned magician who may not be who she appears to be—band together with McPherson to create the illusion of a lifetime.

Electric with compelling action and trenchant social commentary and perfect for fans of Nikki Erlick’s The Measure, this genre-straddling work of speculative fiction examines ageism from a new and challenging perspective."Lifers is a fast-paced, cautionary tale about the human quest for longevity that shocks and captivates as it unveils the realities of mortality, ageism, and the power of loyalty and love."—Ann Hagedorn, author of Sleeper Agent and Beyond the RiverIn the year 2050, the man known as Zinn is on the run from the consequences of his greatest creation: an artificial genome that wildly increases the human lifespan. His “Methuselah gene” has gone viral, and he’s being hunted by Adele, a semi-retired CIA biowarfare specialist who hopes to find a way to reverse the genome’s effects before it’s too late. As the longevity plague spreads, populations explode, economies are upended, and intergenerational resentments boil over. Adele searches for a cure while her former lover, Dan Altman, and his wife, Marion, wealthy political operatives both, become leaders of a movement of hundred-plus-year-old “lifers” and fight to create a sanctuary for the ultra-aged in the wilds of Colorado. Meanwhile, the Altmans’ son, Nolan, thinks he has the answer to the longevity crisis: a suicide pill that kills after one year, a death wish algorithm that will influence the super-aged to take it, and his beautiful daughter, Claire, who is a spokesperson for the growing anti-lifer backlash and the head of the federal government’s new Department for Longevity Management. Combining a hugely topical premise with a vein of social-political satire, Lifers evokes a world where society’s ingrained ageism turns lethal and the fear of death is replaced by the challenge of living on . . . and on.

The suicide of a woman being treated for depression initiates a cascade of events leading to a rash of unexplained deaths. When FDA epidemiologist Carrie Hediger inadvertently uncovers these deaths, she¿s left with pressing questions: Are these deaths connected? What do they have in common? Are more deaths to come? Carrie and her team buck the system to find the answer.

Shane and Chloe are polar opposites-politically, socially, economically?each with massive online followings. They are also in love. When Shane is arrested as the anonymous leader of an online conspiracy and Chloe is abducted by his followers to use as a bargaining chip, they both begin to question what they believe in?and whether saving their star-crossed relationship, or even themselves, is possible.

In this bicoastal and razor-sharp look at women in the workplace and the true meaning of success, earnest female journalist Jamie Roman squares off against Anna Bright, the enigmatic founder of a multibillion-dollar company who is committing fraud-and who will do whatever it takes to protect her secrets.

Inspired by the temporary shuttering of Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, City of Books charmingly explores a bibliophile's fantasy: moving into a bookstore to stop it from closing.

Neuroscience PhD student Frankie Conner sets out to discover a cure for her depression. Instead, she finds herself being mentored by a mysterious group of talking animals with ties to her forgotten past-an experience that, gradually and sometimes painfully, reveals to her the magic that's possible when you stop trying to grow out of your imperfections and start learning to grow into them.

Seventeen-year-old Lyra Harmon's parents just contracted Hecate's Plague-the world's deadliest disease?and have only three days to live. Unless Lyra, the only person immune to the disease, can save them. But who can she trust?and how far is she willing to go?

When a human trafficking ring kidnaps PI Sean "Mick" McPherson's pregnant wife, he learns the lines he'll cross. Because when a person has it all, they have everything to lose.

Twentysomething Abigail Gardner has experienced her share of tragedy, so when she gets a teaching job at one of Philadelphia's most prestigious prep schools and everything in her down-in-the-dumps life starts to turn around, she thinks she's finally getting the happy ending she's yearned for. But is "happily ever after" really possible?

Fourteen-year-old Naya's artist family can secretly see time, but she wants to be a doctor. To win her dream she has to rise to Grandmother's challenge-but someone who's after their secrets is rigging events and getting in her way. Good thing she's too smart to get caught. Right?

Pamela, a seer and empath hired by a cult to design tarot cards, must summon the muses of her cards, High Priestess and Empress, to help her thwart the nemesis who seeks to control her and keep the Carlists from trying to destroy all female rulers.

In this coming-of-age story about the cycle of life in and out of the garden, Bella Fontaine comes to understand as a young woman trying to make her way in the world, that when it's time to leave home, it's time-whether you feel ready or not.

In the democratic nation of California, Darah discovers the game she's working on in a Silicon Valley tech company has been tampered with and turns to a hacker friend, Jedd, for help. The mind-control plot Jedd and his friends soon uncover is a bigger threat than he or Darah imagined—but are they willing to risk everything to prevent it from going forward?

Set in the 1850s, The Stockwell Letters is based on the true story of a high-profile runaway slave and the bold women who dared to help him, even when it meant defying their husbands, male abolitionist leaders, and society at large.

Freelance photographer Coty Fine falls in love with her traveling companion as they escape 1954 Hanoi. Spanning multiple decades, this four-part, cross-generational novel follows Coty and her progeny-strong women each?as they navigate their strained relationships and, assisted by the revelation of a once forbidden photograph, make halting steps toward reconciliation and redemption.

A fun, colorful, and accessible story about a young girl named Mabel who gets her first bank account and watches her money grow, this book is a fantastic resource for parents who want to teach their kids aged four to eight about the value in budgeting, saving, and managing money!

Seeth is a shadow elf and the second son of the king of Galaway. When his father dies, their sworn enemy, a Fomorian sorcerer name Balor, attacks. Sam Baron and friends must travel to Galaway to rescue a little witchling and stop the Fomorian sorcerer from raising The Ogma Stone-an ancient talisman powerful enough to destroy their world.

Now that Kyra Valorian and Sebastian Sayre have remembered their pasts as the former Felserpent Queen and King, they are ready to reunite the realms and bring peace between Astrals and Daevals. Unfortunately, their arch-enemy, Tallus, has also returned, determined to stop them. Can they outwit him, or will those with silver and gold blood be divided forever?

After fleeing from her wealthy, manipulative family and changing her name from Ivy to Georgette, a young witch travels with her Wood Nymph friend, Mei-Xing, across the country in search of a new life. When they meet a Werehyena who needs magical assistance to find his kidnapped wife, Georgette wants to help¿but she will only be able to do so if she can overcome the shadows of her past.

Is she losing her mind or finding herself for the first time? Swapping her corporate laptop for a meditation mat, one woman embarks on a reluctant journey to find out.

When sixteen-year old Marise Leeson dabbles in magic, she accidentally catapults herself into the world of Moerden—and into a life-and-death struggle with the dragons that live there.

Following her mother¿s sudden death, fourteen-year-old Reese and her father lose one another, as well their family horse business, and go on separate, grief-stricken paths. In this tender tale of not giving up hope, Reese meets a selective mute and decides to trust a force beyond explanation to run the race her mother always knew she could.

This final novel in the acclaimed Seventh Flag Trilogy rides through the American West with two Texas families after the fall of civilization thirty years in the future as they hunt for the key to their salvation: the Algorithms of everything.

Ride or Die is a glimpse into the true meaning behind being in a ride-or-die relationship, where no matter the challenge or difficult times, you ride on with your partner till the end. It¿s also about the simple-to-say yet hard-to-live-up-to meaning of ¿in sickness and in health . . . till death do us part.¿

She didn’t run because she killed him, she ran because she didn’t. But no one believes Juana, an undocumented seventeen-year-old incarcerated for her husband’s death. Amid the chaos of prison and her grief, she creates a garden in the yard. A safe space. A place where she gains strength to take on the system before she loses her child.

Holly Walker-a rare American living in Turks and Caicos? becomes a reluctant hero, and finds love, when she is caught in catastrophic Hurricane Nestor on the Caribbean island of Grand Turk.