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Alibi by Teri Woods is a gripping urban thriller that plunges readers into the gritty streets of North Philadelphia in 1986, where loyalty, betrayal, and survival collide.Lance and Jeremy, two desperate men looking for a way out of their struggles, thought theyd found the perfect opportunity--a chance to rob the stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philadelphias biggest drug lords. That fateful decision may have started out as a calculated heist but soon spiraled into a night of chaos, bloodshed, and irreversible consequences.As the bodies pile up and the streets buzz with whispers of revenge, the story weaves through the lives of those caught in the crossfire. From Nard, a street soldier with a code of honor, to Daisy Mae, a woman trying to escape her past, each character is drawn into a web of lies, violence, and survival. With the police closing in and the shadow of Simon Shuller, the citys untouchable drug kingpin, looming large, everyone is searching for an alibibut not everyone will make it out alive.With Alibi, Teri Woods once again brings us a masterfully crafted tale of raw emotion, high stakes, and the unrelenting grip of the streets. This is a novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat to the very end.

Alibi II: Nards Revenge is a raw, unflinching chronicle of how one courtroom betrayal unravels across decades, leaving a trail of shattered lives, cold vengeance, and a final, devastating reckoning. In the tradition of great urban crime fiction, it asks the question every survivor must face: when justice fails you, what do you become in its absence?Philadelphia, 1986. Bernard "Nard" Guess sits in a courtroom watching his future collapse in real time. The alibi witness who was supposed to set him free has just done the opposite and with that single act of betrayal, two lives are permanently altered. For Daisy Mae Fothergill, it is the beginning of a carefully constructed escape into a new identity, a new name, and a new world far from the streets that nearly consumed her. For Nard, it is the start of a sentence that stretches not just through years, but through the very marrow of who he is.From the concrete corridors of Green Penitentiary to the sunlit luxury of Scottsdale, Arizona, Nards Revenge moves between two parallel worlds with cinematic precision. One world belongs to Diana Abigail Poitier Praeliou former stripper, former witness, now a woman of wealth, grace, and carefully buried secrets, married to a brilliant neurosurgeon and living a life that looks, from every angle, like a fairy tale. The other world belongs to Nard institutionalized, hardened, and finally free a man who has spent twenty years not just surviving prison but cataloguing every name, every face, and every debt that put him there. Between these two lives stands the past, patient and inevitable as gravity.The novels true genius lies in its supporting cast: the indomitable Beverly Guess, whose love for her son never wavers even as it costs her everything; the enigmatic Liddles, who has spent decades building an empire in his brothers memory; the morally complicated Tommy Delgado, a detective entangled in loyalties the law was never designed to accommodate; and the neighborhood itself North Philadelphia rendered with such specificity and tenderness that it becomes a character in its own right, aging and changing alongside everyone it has shaped. Nards Revenge is ultimately a story about what we owe the dead, what we owe ourselves, and what happens when the two debts come due at exactly the same moment.

From a poet of lyric wonderment, angular beauty, and uncompromising vision (Poetry Northwest), a luminous new meditation on loss and loveIn Joanna Klinks dreamlike sixth poetry collection, she turns her gaze to ordinary days and asks: What is the measure of a life? How should we weigh time, luck, love? Against the extreme terrain of Texaswith its soaring temperatures, ice storms, and flash floodsshe tries to make sense of the loss of natural spaces, her father going blind, falling in love mid-life. Each of her poems embodies what Virginia Woolf described as moments of being: moments of awareness and intense feeling in which we become conscious of our connection to the world around us. Flickering between personal and ecological time, Klinks poems deepen those connections even as the landscapes and relationships around her become less recognizable. Days & Chances helps us see the depths in everyday momentsand chances to live more fully.

Magic built their empire. Blood will decide who rules it next. When a CEO falls, one familys battle for control becomes a brutal game of betrayal, desire, and power in this sharp, seductive debut for fans of Successionwith fangs. A hundred years ago, magic ran wildbelonging only to the fae, the witches, the vampires. Then the mortal Martin Maddock stole its secret. With it, he forged Mythos, a company that bottles spells for humankind. Now his descendants rule a trillion-dollar empireand Valentina Maddock is determined to inherit its throne.The worlds wealthiest elites descend on the Maddock estate for a lavish, ultra-exclusive weekend to unveil Mythoss latest magical breakthrough. But when Valentinas CEO father suddenly collapses, the race for his heir beginsand the claws come out. Valentina is pitted against her playboy brother, her brilliant scientist mother, and her fathers long-time CFO. Even the guests and staff are choosing sidesand someone intends to eliminate Valentina entirely.Then an unexpected guest arrives: a vampire. Luc Sayle has no known ties to Mythos, yet he carries a private invitation from the CEO himself. Drawn to the enigmatic and dangerously handsome stranger, Valentina senses Luc may be her only ally. But his polished words hide a bite, forcing her to question who the true monster really is.Set in a world of dark enchantments, glittering wealth, and cutthroat ambition, The Age of Blood and Magic blends paranormal fantasy, locked-room mystery, and romantic suspense into a razor-sharp, intoxicating tale where magic is powerand everyones out for blood.

Circe meets The Lost Apothecary in the first book of this historical fantasy duology featuring Ancient Romes most infamous poisoner who changed the course of history to save the woman she loved.Born in the ancient region of Gaul, Locusta is the last of her kinda Druid whose communion with the spirit world grants her the dangerous gift of identifying and wielding deadly substances. When Roman soldiers attack her home and slaughter her mother, Locusta is captured and enslaved, taken to the heart of the empire where political plots abound and death commands a high price. Guided by Arawn, the god of death, she must learn to survive within the brutal, glittering world of ancient Rome.Her strange talents soon catch the attention of the Roman elite, and she becomes ensnared in a double lifepoisoner by night for the cunning Antonia Augusta, and lady-in-waiting by day to Livia, the Emperors ambitious cousin. As Locusta plants the seeds of revenge against those who destroyed her home, her connection with Livia deepens into a passionate, forbidden romance that threatens them both. Surrounded by danger and deceit, Locustas poisons become their only protection against the increasingly unstable Emperor Caligula and the enemies lurking in every shadow.Locusta reimagines the rise of one of historys most complex women through a lens of myth, power, and feminine rage. Rich with ruthless twists, deadly magic, and a sapphic love story that burns from sweet to spicy, this is a story of survival, defiance, and the dangerous alchemy of love and death in a world ruled by men.

Widower and anthropologist Harry Lancaster and his Gen Z colleague Emma are back for more murder and mayhem when they stumble upon a dead farmer.This delightful sequel to A Field Guide to Murder is perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Benjamin Stevenson.When an odd request leads Harry Lancaster to agree to meet his former sweetheart Willow at a farm on the outskirts of town, Emmas suspicions run high, and she insists on joining him. Instead of Willow greeting them when they arrive, they discover the farms owner dead, with a corn rake embedded in his back.After being interrogated by the police, Harry and Emma return to his home to find a bereft Willow, who admits she lost her life savings in a real estate scam involving the farm. Worried Willow will become the main murder suspect, Harry decides to help her, despite Emmas concerns. To bring the swindlersand murdererto justice, Harry recruits his potentially shady, financial-whiz brother and a neighborhood teenage hacker. Then Willows realtor is declared missing, and Harrys brother is caught up in the fray. As Harry, Emma, and team unearth clues, they increasingly dodge the police, stalkers, and danger in their race to save Willow and Harrys brother before anyone else turns up dead.

The second volume of Antonio Scuratis masterful trilogy, acclaimed as one of the great historical novels of the twenty-first century, and an international bestseller. M: The Ascent to Power takes the reader through the 1930s as Benito Mussolini transcends his youth as a small-time newspaperman, agitator, and socialist to become the terrifyingly charismatic Il Duce, with the drums of the Second World War beginning to rumble across Europe.Firebrand Benito Mussolinis speeches and promises have won him the devotion of Italys poor and marginalized suffering from the ravages and economic deprivations of the First World War. With his political rise and taste for violence, Mussolini bends all of Italy to his will, molding the nation into a fearsome police state and establishing a nefarious new system of government known as fascism.M: The Ascent to Power follows Mussolini to the precipice of World War II. Il Duces arrogant, aggressive, and charismatic personality and will to power combined with his shrewd use of propaganda, violence, and extensive network of torture and repression propel Italys National Fascist Party forward. While his Blackshirts march on Rome, he declares the Slavic people barbarians, nationalizes Italian business, and eventually makes the choice to join forces with Nazi Germanys Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. Antonio Scuratis M series imaginatively tells the story of fascism from inside the mind of its founder. Steeped in history and atmosphere and filled with details drawn from period documents and sources, this masterful saga explores the seductive power of nationalism and idolatry, revealing how authoritarianism took hold and a nation succumbed to one ruthless strongman. Provocative and resonant, this literary masterpiece is a chilling reminder that the past is never gone, and that it holds urgent lessons for today.

From the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick Save Whats Left comes a witty and sharp-tongued novel about an actress whose manuscript is thirty-seven years overdueand the life moments that led to its delay.Maria Astorini, once popular character actress and late-night talk show darling, is having a moment. The B-list actress has survived deaths, divorces, a famous mother, a Hollywood blacklist, a string of public embarrassments, an aging face, financial ruin, an empty nest, a difficult best friend, and a worldwide pandemic. Now, shes back and bigger than ever. A small, unexpected role has heightened her celebrity status and propelled her, at age sixty-five, into the limelight. And then, along comes the call Maria has spent decades avoiding. Its her publisher asking, Where is that book?Maria knows the world doesnt need another celebrity memoir. To finally fulfill her contract, Maria writes, or attempts to write, or, at the very least, sends a pile of pages meant to vaguely resemble the book she promised to deliver nearly four decades earlier.In a series of bite-sized anecdotes, she candidly recalls her past, chronicling the significant, and insignificant moments of her full, funny, and extraordinarily unpredictable life.Maria hasnt been able to write a book about her lifeshes been too busy living it.

The fates of eight characters in the nineteenth-century Balkans intertwine in this metafictional book of strange quests and nested narratives for fans of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges.A woman who reads the future in the faces of her lovers, a dice-player whose unfailing luck becomes a curse, a manuscript illuminator who leaves his monastery to become a most fearsome bandit. Set in the Balkans in the nineteenth century, Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow follows eight charactersall defined by a quest, all marked by a hidden, often torturous talentwhose fates become inextricably interwoven. One of the characters, novelist Ian van Athen, may even be the progenitor of all the restalthough reality has a way of defying fiction, and vice versa, and van Athen soon discovers not even he is immune to the undeniable logic of story, to the twists and turns of his own fateRich with classical allusions and nested narratives that recall the fictions of Calvino and Borges, Iana Boukovas enthralling novel about the pleasures and perils of storytelling appears here in Ekaterina Petrovas masterful translation, and is imbued with all the beauty and unexpectedness of poetry.The translation of Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow has been made possible with the financial support of the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria, 2024 Translation Program, and in partnership with the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.

"Wecker is a marvelous storyteller.USA TodayAn intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Weckers storytelling skills dazzle. Entertainment WeeklyThe long-awaited final installment in the award-winning, bestselling Golem and the Jinni trilogy.At the beginning of The Hidden Palace, the second book in Helene Weckers Golem and Jinni trilogy, Ahmad the jinni travels to Syria with the copper flask that holds the captured wizard Yehudah Schaalman. There in the desert he buries the flask for all time or so he thinks.In The Gates of Midnight, the riveting conclusion to the saga of the Golem and the Jinni, its 1930 and three decades have passed since Schaalmans defeat. Chava the golem quietly tends to her house and garden in Brooklyn, hoping to create a refuge for other magical beings. Meanwhile, Ahmad has found employment as an architect in Chicago, helping to build its towering skyline above the prairie.But all is not well in the desert. Schaalman has managed to trick an unsuspecting passerby into digging up the flask, and now it passes from hand to hand as the wizard possesses his victims -- first a French soldier traveling to New York, then a small-time mobster -- all in an effort to get to Chava, the only one who can release him from his prison.Meanwhile others are gravitating to New York as well: Ahmad, who has lost his job following the 1929 stock market crash; the mysterious Thomas Beshara, a riveter on the rising Empire State Building, who also has hidden ties to Chava and Ahmad; and Kreindel Altschul, who still grieves her own destroyed golem Yossele. Does the reluctant Kreindel hold the key to saving Chava from Schaalmans revenge? Will Schaalman succeed in escaping the flask, binding Chava to his will, and re-enslaving Ahmad? Or can they find a way to finally defeat him and free themselves from his power? An earth-shaking finale to the brilliant trilogy.

Bluebeard gets a gothic horror and sapphic romance twist in this fairytale retelling from the author of Serial Killer Support Group and Trad Wife.A young ceramic artist moves into her new wifes isolated manor and gets drawn into dark discoveries that stain her marriageand her very soul.Artist Poppy Reed doesnt care if others think her marriage to Celia Marie Fox, a wealthy art dealer, is impulsive. Sure, theyve only known each other for six months, and Celia has an infamous romantic reputation, but Poppy is brimming with excitement when she moves across the country to Celias home: a formidable, isolated, and art-filled manor called Busirane.As Poppy tries to celebrate her first weeks of marriage and enjoy her new home, Busirane seems intent on rebuffing her every attempt to settle in. Strange noises and confounding occurrences lead Poppy to believe the house is haunted, a suspicion worsened by Celias insistence that Poppy avoid the locked basement.When Celia leaves for a work trip, Poppy is left alone in the house, then finds herself snowed in. Surrounded by secrets, stalked by faceless statues, and beset by bodiless whispers, she struggles to trust her wifeand her own mind. When Poppy is eventually drawn to the forbidden basement, dark truths shatter everything she thought she knew, throwing her into a desperate bid for survival.Drenched in dread, this contemporary gothic folktale retelling will have you checking all the locks. Twice.

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Its the story of a murder. Its the story of a marriage. Its the story of a lifetime. Its the story of a murder.Its the story of a marriage.Its the story of a lifetime. Noah and Rita. Rita and Noah. Theyve survived a lot: marriage, money troubles, two children and a hurricane that should have killed them. But can their relationship survive Noahs obsession with a cold case murder? Noah, a true crime journalist, has just published his first book the subject for which landed in his lap when the as-yet-unidentified killer of a local woman left a clue addressed to him in his home mailbox. Everything should be coming up roses for him and his family but the local police hate him, hes having creepy hallucinations, someone just tried to run him over, his beloved wife Rita has been writing him cryptic messages in the steam on the bathroom mirror and another apocalyptic storm is heading to Brisbane As Noah hurtles headfirst onto his own swirling storm of secrets, can he cling for dear life to the only story that really matters his love story with Rita? From the #1 bestselling Australia author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE (made into a major Netflix series), this is dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected: a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldnt.

This is a novel to savor. It is as cozy and inviting as the cottage at its heart and just as full of hidden treasures CHRISTINA LAURAN, bestselling author of The Unhoonymooners Inspired by the viral treasure houses on social media, a single mother and her daughter relocate to rural Maine for the chance to own their very first home only to discover that the real treasures hidden inside arent just objects, but community, belonging and love. For fans of The Wedding People by Alison Espach and Jojo Moyes.Every house has a story. This one might change her future. All Zoe Copeland has ever wanted is somewhere to call home. Years in foster care has seen her move from place to place, and now as she faces eviction, Zoes determined not to let eleven-year-old daughter grow up the same way.So when a too-good-to-be-true cottage comes up for sale, Zoe takes the leap and moves them to a tiny seaside town shes never even heard of. The catch? Its a treasure house packed floor-to-ceiling with clutter. While Florence is falling in love with the various knick-knacks, Zoe becomes convinced shes made a huge mistake, especially when her grumpy neighbour Jake says exactly that . . . even as he keeps showing up to help.As they start clearing the house, Zoe slowly pieces together the story behind its former owner, Marly. And the deeper she digs, the more it starts to feel uncomfortably close to home.Because Zoes whole world has always been just her and Florence. But maybe its time to let others in . . . and finally discover what home really means.

Turns out the man Ive been casually dating is actually the Crown Prince of the Demon Realm.Which is not something that usually comes up over drinks. . .I only found out after he saved me from a demon attack. Now, thanks to my connection to him, Im in danger too.His solution?Marriage.Apparently, becoming his wife is the easiest way to keep me safe. Temporary. Convenient. Nothing to worry about.Except nothing about him has ever been easy.Not the tension that is building between us. Not the way his world keeps pulling me in. And definitely not the way Im starting to wonder if I even want an easy way out.Because this isnt just a marriage of convenience.And if Im not careful, what started as a way to survive might turn into something a lot more dangerous. . .Like actually falling for my husband, even if he is a demon prince.

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