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What Have You Done?

What Have You Done?
  • Author(s): Shari Lapena
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors...

What He Taught Her

What He Taught Her
  • Author(s): AnneMarie Brear
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Rob Healy has everything he wants, or will have once he’s built his new resort on a small island in the Pacific. A woman in his life isn’t planned at the moment, but when he sees Cassandra Kearns in...

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
  • Author(s): Kristin Newman
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): modern

Kristin Newman spent much of her twenties and thirties buying dresses to wear to her friends’ weddings and baby showers. Not ready to settle down and in need of an escape from her fast-paced job as a sitcom writer,...

What If It’s Us

What If It’s Us
  • Author(s): Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Meet Arthur and Ben. ARTHUR is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. BEN thinks the universe needs...

What If It’s You?

What If It’s You?
  • Author(s): Jilly Gagnon
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You’re supposed to be thrilled when you find a ring in your boyfriend’s sock drawer, right? But Laurel Everett’s just left wondering… ‘what if?’ Specifically, what if she’d taken up her work crush, Drew, on his offer of a...

What is the What

What is the What
  • Author(s): Dave Eggers
  • Location(s): The Sudan, Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety...

What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath
  • Author(s): Adam Croft
  • Location(s): Rutland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Early one typically quiet Sunday morning, two men fishing on Rutland Water discover a body on the rocks below the ‘drowned’ church which is one of Rutland’s icons. Det Inspector Caroline Hills, recently arrived from London’s Metropolitan Police, and...

What Lies Between Us

What Lies Between Us
  • Author(s): Nayomi Munaweera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ganga, a young girl, grows up carefree in the midst of her loving family in an old and beautiful house nestled in the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka. Her childhood is like any other–until it isn’t. A cherished...

What Lies Within

What Lies Within
  • Author(s): Clare de Lune
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Serial killer Sophia snatches the “dirty” runaways, drug users and society’s misfits off the street and gets them clean—by turning their remains into soap. But she’s bored with her overbearing partner and it’s time to replace him with someone...

What Noise Against the Cane

What Noise Against the Cane
  • Author(s): Desiree C Bailey
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Poetry

The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C....

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