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The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley, 2024

<p>An instant New York Times bestseller!</p> <p>"Sharp, stylish and stunning...Foley's best yet." -- Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark</p> <p>"It is an absolute bonkers delight (and I haven't even mentioned the local bird cult yet ...)." -- NPR, Best Books of the Year</p> <p> Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin...</p> <p>It's the opening night of The Manor, the newest and hottest luxury resort, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; the "Manor Mule" cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.</p> <p>But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor's immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets. And it's not too long before the local police are called. Turns out the past has crashed the party, with deadly results.</p> <p> THE GIRLBOSS · THE HUSBAND · THE KITCHEN HELP · THE MYSTERY GUEST</p> <p> Everyone's got a secret. Everyone's got an agenda. But not everyone will survive...The Midnight Feast</p> <p>"Foley's usual techniques of unraveling the central mystery through multiple timelines and narrators are paralleled by the spiraling events of the weekend, which careen from juice shots and yoga on the lawn to a chaotic climax at a hallucinogen-fueled bacchanal where hidden identities and multiple murders are brought to light. It is an absolute bonkers delight" -- NPR</p>

I Hope This Doesn’t Find You

Ann Liang, 2024

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Yoko Ogawa, 2009

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Satoshi Yagisawa, 2023

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Banana Yoshimoto · 2023

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2019

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The Poppy War

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4)

The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3)

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1)

Pride and Prejudice

1984

<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Animal Farm

Crime and Punishment

One of the world's greatest novels, <b>Crime and Punishment</b> is the story of a murder and its consequences—an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia's troubled transition to the modern age. <p>In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual student. The poverty he has always known drives him to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he puts this belief to the test and commits murder, there results unbearable suffering. Crime and punishment, the novel reminds us, “grow from the same seed.”</p> <p>“No other novelist,” wrote Irving Howe of Dostoyevsky, “has dramatized so powerfully the values and dangers, the uses and corruptions of systematized thought.” But Sigmund Freud and others saw the Russian's work in a different light. Said Freud, “He might have been a liberator of mankind. Instead he chose to be its jailer.”</p> <p>“He is the only psychologist I have anything to learn from.”—Friedrich Nietzsche</p> <p></p>

The Brothers Karamazov

White Nights

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