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The Woods

The Woods
  • Author(s): Harlan Coben
  • Location(s): Newark
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about...

The Word for Woman is Wilderness

The Word for Woman is Wilderness
  • Author(s): Abi Andrews
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Erin is 19. She’s never really left England, but she has watched Bear Grylls and wonders why it’s always men who get to go on all the cool wilderness adventures. So Erin sets off on a voyage into the...

The Word Is Murder

The Word Is Murder
  • Author(s): Anthony Horowitz
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor – enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a...

The Words I Never Wrote

The Words I Never Wrote
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): Berlin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present Day, WW2

New York, present day: On a whim, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its case she discovers an unfinished novel, igniting a transatlantic journey to fill the gaps in...

The World Before This One

The World Before This One
  • Author(s): Rafe Martin
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Prehistoric

Crow is a Seneca boy, coming of age in a time of war, in a time before stories. Cast out of the Seneca tribe, Crow and his grandmother struggle merely to find enough food to make it through the...

The World Below

The World Below
  • Author(s): Sue Miller
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919

From the author of While I Was Gone, a stunning new novel that showcases Sue Miller’s singular gift for exposing the nerves that lie hidden in marriages and families, and the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the...

The World Cannot Give

The World Cannot Give
  • Author(s): Tara Isabella Burton
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan’s Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic “prep school prophet” (and St. Dunstan’s...

The World in Half

The World in Half
  • Author(s): Cristina Henríquez
  • Location(s): Panama, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Miraflores never knew her father, and never thought he wanted to know her. But when she returns to the Chicago suburb where she grew up to care for her ailing mother, she discovers that her mother and father were...

The World of Moominvalley

The World of Moominvalley
  • Author(s): Tove Jansson
  • Location(s): Finland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Any time

Step into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful one of a kind book; a fun, fascinating, behind the scenes look at the wonderful world of the Moomins and their creator, Tove Jansson. Filled with illustrated maps and...

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
  • Author(s): Ned Sublette
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 18th/19th Century

Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the...

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