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A poignant young‑adult tale of two teens—Hazel and Augustus—who meet in a cancer support group, and whose unlikely romance forces them to confront love, illness, and the meaning of life.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A former lover’s passion turns to obsession when a college professor discovers the truth behind his ex’s vanished life, forcing him to confront a mystery that endangers his own existence.

A story of power, science, and suspense in a Colorado mansion.

A gripping thriller about a family dealing with their teenage son's potential suicide after a friend's suicide, with a twist of unexpected brutality.

A mother's nightmare returns as she discovers her children are missing in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and must confront the shadowy figure who murdered her first children.

When a Facebook friend request from a deceased high‑school girl surfaces, a teenage girl must confront buried secrets, lost friendships, and a dangerous truth she never anticipated.

An embittered wanderer, his son, and a young girl with healing gifts journey across the wastelands of a new planet, risking everything to uncover its terrible secret.

Charlie, a wandering specter, encounters those destined for death and offers them transformative messages that can change their lives.

A husband-and-wife treasure‑hunter duo chase a vanished Romanov ransom across Europe, North Africa, and South America, confronting a neo‑Nazi clan seeking to revive a Fourth Reich.

Under the fading light of the Chinese emperors and the waning British Empire, a young man’s desperate quest amid World War II reveals loyalty, betrayal, and the fragile ties of a racially mixed Malaysian society.

Three high school teenagers become serial killers while investigating a Spree Murders case.

*"Although this is Australian author Tsiolkas’ fourth novel, it is the first to be published in the U.S. With its raw style, liberal use of profanity and racial epithets, and laserlike focus on the travails of suburban life, it is a down-and-dirty version of Tom Perrotta’s best-selling Little Children (2004). At a barbecue in a Melbourne suburb, a man loses his temper and slaps the child of the host’s friends. This incident unleashes a slew of divisive opinions, pitting friends and families against each other as the child’s parents take the man to court. Told from eight different viewpoints, the novel also deftly fills in disparate backstories encompassing young and old, single and married, gay and straight, as well as depicting how multiculturalism is increasingly impacting the traditional Aussie ethos. For good measure, the author also throws in male vanity, infidelity, and homophobia. Tsiolkas’ in-your-face style is sure to alienate some readers—the child’s parents, for example, are among the book’s most unlikable characters—but his novel, which won the 2009 Commonwealth Prize, fairly radiates with vitality as it depicts the messy complications of family life."* -- Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist

An ordinary snapshot leads to a suburban mother's unraveling world as she tries to shield her children from her husband who has been found dead with a family photograph in his possession, and the revelation of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find Jack and the photo.

Amid grief and new beginnings, a novelist’s life in Fog Harbor, Massachusetts, is shattered again when a series of murders targets young women, forcing her to confront personal demons and a chilling confession from a crisis hotline caller.

At Wyndemere House, Fern and her mother serve a wealthy family while their lives are reshaped by a new wife’s strict rules and a forbidden friendship with the Finchson son. The rigid class hierarchy leaves them powerless to protect their future.

A gripping Swedish‑Danish thriller where a missing justice minister and a murdered Danish TV star set off a race to solve a conspiracy that ties crime, missing persons and body‑part killings.