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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...

A young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances.

Caring for an abandoned infant during the summer of 1896, Emma Cross uses her connections to search for the child's family and discovers a link between the baby and a textile magnate who drowns under suspicious circumstances.

A decade after the killing of her stepfather, Ismay is still haunted by nightmares of his murder and of seeing his naked body floating in the bathtub and her sister, Heather, standing over him.

While honeymooning on a tiny Greek island, Evelyn is wary of the hotel's owner, Isabella, who only wants to impress an American producer with the story of "the sleepwalkers," a couple who drowned at the hotel, turning their vacation into a living nightmare that forces them to face some dark truths. "Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and...

"The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit. London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor-well, to themselves, anyway-Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government's war effort. It's true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn't give...

When six-year-old Kate Morton overhears her mother talking about her four children, Kate is mystified: there are only three children in the family. The mystery is resurrected twenty years later when Kate's grandfather's will states that the four children of his daughter should benefit. But who is the missing child? And what does a game played in the past have to do with the mystery?

Teen mage Emory must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths. 'Ninth House meets A Deadly Education in this gorgeous dark academia fantasy following a teen mage who must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates’ deaths. Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been...