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The Familiar Dark

The Familiar Dark
  • Author(s): Amy Engel
  • Location(s): The Ozarks
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘In other places, the murder of two little girls would have blanketed the entire town in horror. Here, it was just another bad day.’ Eve Taggert’s life has been spent steadily climbing away from her roots. Her mother, a...

The Family

The Family
  • Author(s): Naomi Krupitsky
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): From the 1920s

A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit,...

The Family Beach House

The Family Beach House
  • Author(s): Holly Chamberlin
  • Location(s): Ogunquit
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some houses have a personality of their own. Larchmere is that kind of place—a splendid, sprawling home with breathtaking views that open to briny Atlantic air and seabirds’ calls. It’s where Tilda McQueen O’Connell grew up and now vacations...

The Farm

The Farm
  • Author(s): Joanne Ramos
  • Location(s): The Hudson Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks – a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness...

The Feast of Love

The Feast of Love
  • Author(s): Charles Baxter
  • Location(s): Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The Feast of Love is a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined A Midsummer Night’s Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out...

The Feral Detective

The Feral Detective
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lethem
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist – a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a...

The Fiddler

The Fiddler
  • Author(s): Beverly Lewis
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Amelia “Amy” DeVries, a 24-year-old violinist, is disillusioned with life and love after the collapse of her long-running romance. Weary of endless rehearsals and performances, Amy sets out on a road trip through the Pennsylvania mountains. She leaves her...

The Fiery Cross

The Fiery Cross
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1771

1771: the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other. Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a man of honour, a...

The Fifth Petal

The Fifth Petal
  • Author(s): Brunonia Barry
  • Location(s): Salem
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem’s chief of police, John Rafferty, wonders if there is a connection between his death and Salem’s most notorious cold case, a triple homicide dubbed The Goddess Murders, in which...

The Fighting Ground

The Fighting Ground
  • Author(s): Avi
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): American War of Independence

Jonathan, 13, knows he’s ready to fight the British. He can handle a gun. And he yearns to don a uniform and battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin. So on this day when the tavern bell...

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