<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Brentan, Carlotta,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Brentan, Carlotta,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/infosoup/rss/search?query=Brentan%2C%20Carlotta%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:38:11 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Best Friends]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shannon knows sixth grade is going to be a perfect year. She's got a spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and, most importantly, which boys you're allowed to talk to. Who makes these rules anyway? And does Shannon have to follow them to stay friends with The Group?]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C922292</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C922292</guid><category><![CDATA[GRAPHIC_NOVEL]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hale, Shannon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/922292181</comments><format>GRAPHIC_NOVEL</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781250327277&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mona Lisa Vanishes]]></title><description><![CDATA[A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C1014667</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C1014667</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Day, Nicholas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1014667181</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Legendary Painter, A Shocking Heist, and the Birth of A Global Celebrity</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9798331701840&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light of Days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Presents the untold story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C755223</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C755223</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batalion, Judith]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/755223181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler&apos;s Ghettos</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781094167664&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to Murder Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the "bittersweet page-turner" (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she's forced to go through her mother's things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming "murder week" in England's Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother's secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself--and begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers--Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband's birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels--Cath sets about solving the "crime" and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling--or something more--with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives. Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter's reckoning with her grief, her past--and her own budding sense of adventure.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C999623</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C999623</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dukess, Karen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/999623181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781668121405&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Book of Lost Hours]]></title><description><![CDATA[For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history. Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son--but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn't, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American spy named Ernest Duquesne in 1949 offers her a glimpse of the world she left behind, setting her on a course to change history and possibly the time space itself. In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia Duquesne is mourning the disappearance of her uncle Ernest when an enigmatic CIA agent approaches her to enlist her help in tracking down a book of memories her uncle had once sought. But when Amelia visits the time space for the first time, she realizes that the past--and the truth--might not be as linear as she'd like to believe. Perfect for fans of The Midnight Library and The Ministry of Time, The Book of Lost Hours explores time, memory, and what we sacrifice to protect those we love.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C1004455</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C1004455</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gelfuso, Hayley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1004455181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781668119143&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Amalfi Curse]]></title><description><![CDATA["Sarah Penner transported me to the sea-swept cliffs of Positano and introduced me to characters I'll never forget. A magical read!"--Emilia Hart, New York Times bestselling author of WeywardPowerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse...Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven's arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?As Haven searches for her father's sunken treasure, she begins to unearth a centuries-old tale of ancient sorcery and one woman's quest to save her lover and her village by using the legendary art of stregheria, a magical ability to harness the ocean. Could this magic be behind Positano's latest calamities? Haven must unravel the Amalfi Curse before the region is destroyed forever...Against the dazzling backdrop of the Amalfi Coast, this bewitching novel shimmers with mystery, romance and the untamed magic of the sea.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C989013</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C989013</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Penner, Sarah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/989013181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781488235153&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Double Click]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a dual biography of the McLaughlins, identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking photographers in New York during the glamorous magazine golden age of the 1930s and 40s.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C943394</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C943394</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kino, Carol]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/943394181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781797174303&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Morningside]]></title><description><![CDATA[After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia doesn't know why she and her mother had to leave their home and her mother isn't telling. But in Ena Silvia finds a person willing to give her glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland. Enchanted by Ena's stories, she begins seeing the world with magical possibilities and becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Silvia's mission to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past, will transform her own life in the most unexpected of ways.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C926533</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C926533</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Obreht, Téa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/926533181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9780593824139&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams]]></title><description><![CDATA[When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate. Tay is still reeling from a romantic betrayal, so she's relieved to refocus her energies on her latest project: a biography of her great-great-grandmother Sarafina, a star reporter who began her career in Dove Pond in the late 19th century before abruptly leaving town. Tay believes the letters could be the key in solving what happened, but they only add to her questions, especially when they reveal a forbidden love affair with William Day, a wild youth who took part in a notorious train robbery. Some answers might be found in eighty-year-old Rose Day's bookshop, which doubles as a town archive, but Rose is curiously resistant to give Tay access. Just when Tay thinks she's reached a dead end, she finds an unlikely ally in Rose's grandson, Luke, a fellow puzzle lover. Together, they set out to uncover what really happened all those years ago?and find the truth behind a love story that could be more precious than gold.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C961766</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C961766</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hawkins, Karen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/961766181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781797182438&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Need You to Read This]]></title><description><![CDATA[Years ago Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Now, aside from trips to her regular diner for coffee, she keeps to herself, gets her perfectly normal copywriting job done, and doesn't date. Her carefully cultivated world is upended when her childhood hero, Francis Keen, is brutally murdered. Francis was the woman behind the famous advice column, Dear Constance, and her words helped Alex through some of her darkest times. When Alex sees an advertisement searching for her replacement, she impulsively applies, never expecting to actually get the job. Against all odds, Alex is given the position and quickly proves herself skilled at solving other people's problems. But soon, she begins to receive strange, potentially threatening letters at the office. Francis's murderer was never identified, turning everyone around her into a threat. Including her boss, editor-in-chief Howard Dimitri, who has a habit of staying late at the office and drinking too much. As Alex is drawn into the details surrounding her predecessor's murder, her own dark secrets begin to rise to the surface and Alex suddenly finds herself trapped in a dangerous and potentially deadly game of cat and mouse that takes her all the way from the power centers of Manhattan to Francis Keen's summer house, where her body was found and where the killer may just be waiting for her.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C959941</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C959941</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maxwell, Jessa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/959941181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781797178837&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Morningside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theres the world you can see. And then theres the one you can't. Welcome to the Morningside. After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in a place called Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past, and because the once-vibrant city where she lives is now half-underwater. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her early years, nor does she fully understand why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give the young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia's lonely and impoverished reality. Enchanted by Ena's stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities and becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Bezi Duras is an enigma to everyone in the building: She has her own elevator entrance and leaves only to go out at night and walk her three massive hounds, often not returning until the early morning. Silvia's mission to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past, may end up costing her everything. Startling, inventive, and profoundly moving, The Morningside is a novel about the stories we tell--and the stories we refuse to tell--to make sense of where we came from and who we hope we might become.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C944486</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C944486</guid><category><![CDATA[PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Obreht, Téa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/944486181</comments><format>PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9798822681378&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadows of Perl]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dazzling romantic fantasy world of House of Marionne continues in this dark and deadly sequel full of forbidden magic, devastating lies, and broken hearts. A must read for fans of Stephanie Garber, Leigh Bardugo, and Alex Aster.Unleash the darkness. Claim your power.Quell Marionne's explosive final Rite of Induction to House Marionne sent shockwaves through the magical world, unearthing long buried secrets and her own deadly power. But she paid a steep price: her family and her love. Fleeing Chateau Soleil for House of Perl, for once Quell is celebrated instead of shunned. She has finally found somewhere to belong. But secrets lurk in every House, and Quell's quest to find her mom threatens to lead her deeper into the shadows.Assassin Jordan Wexton, second-in command of the Dragun brotherhood, must protect the source of all magic, the Sphere. Yet the biggest threat to the Sphere is Quell Marionne--the girl he loved, until she claimed the deadly, outlawed toushana. As the Sphere cracks and war brews among the Houses, can the only way to save the world be to kill his own heart?Now, these two lovers-turned enemies must confront their competing ambitions and conflicting loyalties. Or die. The future of magic hangs on their decision.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C969484</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C969484</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elle, J]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/969484181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9780593944721&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadows of Perl]]></title><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C968154</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C968154</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elle, J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/968154181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9780593944721&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sicilian Inheritance]]></title><description><![CDATA[From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author?s own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect . . . Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie?s death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara?s great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch who was left behind while her husband worked in America, didn?t die of illness as family lore has it . . . she was murdered. Thus begins a twist-filled adventure that takes Sara all over the picturesque Italian countryside as she races to solve a mystery and learn the story of Serafina?a feisty and headstrong young woman in the early 1900s thrust into motherhood in her teens, who fought for a better life not just for herself but for all the women of her small village. Unsurprisingly the more she challenges the status quo, the more she finds herself in danger. As Sara discovers more about Serafina, she also realizes she is coming head-to-head with the same menacing forces that took down her great-grandmother. At once an immersive multigenerational mystery and an ode to the undaunted heroism of everyday women, The Sicilian Inheritance is an atmospheric, page-turning delight.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C949043</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C949043</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piazza, Jo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/949043181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9780593827475&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mesmerist]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tightly plotted page-turner ripped from the headlines of history, as three very different women must work together to stop a killer and save the truest home they've ever known.Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the rage, and women are dying under mysterious circumstances. But until a new guest lands at the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers, refusing to speak or explain her arrival, the sordid stories of unexplained deaths seem unconnected. Faith's reticence is quickly interpreted as malevolence, setting the house abuzz with whispers of dark magic.Abby, a staunch Quaker, lifelong supporter of progressive causes, and the Bethany Home's treasurer, thinks the rumors of mystical powers swirling around Faith are nonsense, but she recognizes the danger of a good story. Unwilling to allow the Home's important mission to be clouded by scandal, Abby tasks Faith's roommate, May, with tracing Faith's path to the Bethany Home.May is desperate to end her year at Bethany Home engaged and on track to her happily-ever-after--even if her prince charming is Hal, a man she's not sure she can trust. She uncovers a Minneapolis she never expected as she begins digging into Faith's shadowy background, and her investigation brings her closer to polite society and Hal than she could have dreamed. The more May learns, the more she's forced to question the motives of everyone around her, including Abby and Faith, and as more women turn up dead, May must reevaluate the future she wants, and which lies she's willing to tell, for whom.Rich with tension, suspicion, and sharply observed characters, Caroline Woods reimagines a classic American genre through the eyes of three bold, unforgettable women.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C979505</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C979505</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Woods, Caroline]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/979505181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9780593913062&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Cara and Brendan first meet, she's fresh out of college, recovering from the recent death of her mother, and spending time on Martha's Vineyard while trying to figure out her next steps. She's swept away by Brendan's humor and charm, and intoxicated by his thrilling, dangerous secret: he can breathe underwater. Able to stay beneath the waves for longer than should be possible, Brendan reveals that he is part of a secret experimental unit of the US Special Forces. And Cara, struck by the power of his conviction, by his unstoppable charisma, and by the evidence before her, believes him. Their summer romance turns serious. Then Cara gets pregnant. When their son, Micah, is born, she's sure their happy ending is underway. Still, she's thrown by Brendan's dramatic moods, his unexplained disappearances, and the weight of his secrets. Cara is determined to stay strong for her young family, to heal Brendan's psychic wounds, to keep him safe. Until he and baby Micah vanish, leaving her desolate and alone and questioning everything she once thought was true.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C904671</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C904671</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fedor, Emma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/904671181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781797143668&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarified world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C903658</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C903658</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cline, Emma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/903658181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9780147524034&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinners of Starlight City]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's the worst year of the Great Depression, and America needs all the hope it can get. The Chicago World's Fair, a glittery city-within-a-city, becomes a symbol of the good that's yet to come. But every utopia has a seedy side, and that's Rosa Mancuso's world. As the mysterious Madame Mystique she mixes magic with a dose of bare skin burlesque, bringing customers to the home of the Fair's carnival rides and spectacles. Rosa doesn't perform for fame, though. She has come from Mussolini's Italy to America, where she's plotting her revenge for the murders of her family. The perpetrator will soon arrive at the World's Fair via a celebrated Italian air fleet, and Rosa is determined to be prepared. But when her estranged cousin, Mina, comes to her desperate for help, with a dangerous mobster close on her heels, Rosa agrees to protect Mina and her new baby, born across the color line. With the clock ticking, Rosa decides the only way to survive is to make vengeance a family affair and prompt everyone to, at last, confront the sins from their pasts.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C928991</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C928991</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott, Anika]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/928991181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9798212692755&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Word]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden retriever Laika, house-sitting an old beachfront home on the rainy Washington coast. When Emma posts a one-star review for a horror novel, she ends up in an online argument with the author. Soon after, disturbing incidents start to occur at night. Could he be stalking her?]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C897193</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C897193</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adams, Taylor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/897193181</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9798212217194&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guest]]></title><description><![CDATA[A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this "spellbinding" (Vogue), "smoldering" (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. "Under Cline's command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force."--The New York Times"Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another."Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C896161</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C896161</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cline, Emma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/896161181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9780147524065&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eden Test]]></title><description><![CDATA["A galloping and exhilarating thriller."--Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told MeFrom Edgar Award-finalist Adam Sternbergh, an electrifying domestic suspense novel for fans of The Perfect Marriage and Rock Paper Scissors, about a couple who are forced to the ultimate extremes to save their marriage--and themselves. Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. Daisy and Craig's marriage is in serious trouble. That's why Daisy has signed up for The Eden Test, a week-long getaway for couples in need of a fresh start. Yet even as she's struggling to salvage her marriage, it seems Craig has plans to leave her for another woman. In fact, his bags are already packed--long before he arrives to meet Daisy in this remote cabin in the woods of upstate New York. At first, their week away is marked by solitude, connection, and natural beauty--and only a few hostile locals. But what Craig doesn't know is that Daisy, a slyly talented actress, has her own secrets, including a burner phone she's been using for mysterious texts. Not to mention the Eden Test itself, which poses a searing new question to the couple every day, each more explosive than the last. Their marriage was never perfect, but now the lies and revelations are piling up, as the week becomes much more than they bargained for ... How far are they willing to go?Adam Sternbergh brings his wit, originality, and a Hitchcockian sense of dread to this chilling, surprising, and wholly entertaining portrait of a marriage on the brink. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C921455</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C921455</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sternbergh, Adam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/921455181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781250886576&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chateau]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and murder in this stylish, twisty thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Lisa Jewell.Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, creating the group's deep bond. But why this sudden invitation? Amid winery tours, market visits, and fancy dinners overlooking olive groves and lavender fields, it becomes clear that each woman has a hidden reason for returning to the estate after all these years. Then, following a wild evening's celebration, Séraphine is found brutally murdered. In the midst of this shocking crime, a sinister Instagram account pops up, exposing snapshots from the friends' intimate moments at the chateau, while threatening to reveal more. As they race to uncover who murdered Séraphine--and is now stalking them--the friends begin to suspect each other. Because the chateau houses many secrets...several worth killing for.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C912186</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C912186</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Goldis, Jaclyn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/912186181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781797156101&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Can I Help You]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the author of Looker comes this "compulsive and unforgettable novel" (Mona Awad) of razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo's subtly sinister edge, and watches her carefully. When a patron's death in the library bathroom gives her a hint of Margo's mysterious past, Patricia can't resist digging deeper--even as this new fixation becomes all-consuming. Taut and compelling, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession as these "transfixing dual female narrators" (Kimberly McCreight) hurtle toward a stunning climax]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C903084</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C903084</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sims, Laura]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/903084181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9780593741924&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[When You Wish Upon A Star]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if the Blue Fairy wasn't supposed to help Pinocchio? This New York Times best-selling series twists another Disney classic into a harrowing story in which the Blue Fairy defies fairy law, setting off a dramatic chain of events. "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight ..." So begins the wish that changes everything--for Geppetto, for the Blue Fairy, and for a little puppet named Pinocchio. The Blue Fairy isn't supposed to grant wishes in the small village of Pariva, but something about this one awakens some long-buried flicker within. Perhaps it's the hope she senses beneath the old man's loneliness. Or maybe it's the fact that long ago, before she was the Blue Fairy, she was a young woman named Chiara from this very village, one with a simple wish: to help others find happiness. Her sister, Ilaria, always teased her for this, for Ilaria had big dreams to leave their sleepy village and become a world-renowned opera singer. The two were close, despite their differences. While Ilaria would have given anything to have a fairy grant her wish, Chiara didn't believe in the lore for which their village was famous. Forty years later, Chiara, now the Blue Fairy, defies the rules of magic to help an old friend. But she's discovered by the Scarlet Fairy, formerly Ilaria, who, amid a decades-long grudge, holds the transgression against her sister. They decide to settle things through a good old-fashioned bet, with Pinocchio and Geppetto's fate hanging in the balance. Will the sisters find a way back to one another? Or is this, like many matters of the heart, a gamble that comes with strings?]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C898759</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C898759</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lim, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/898759181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781368096843&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Swiss]]></title><description><![CDATA[A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist's transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she's tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta is fascinated by Big Swiss's refreshing attitude toward trauma. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss's voice at the dog park. In a panic, she introduces herself with a fake name and they quickly become enmeshed. Although Big Swiss is unaware of Greta's true identity, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she'll do anything to sustain the relationship... Bold, outlandish, and filled with irresistible characters, Big Swiss is both a love story and also a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more?from an amazingly talented, one-of-a-kind voice in contemporary fiction.]]></description><link>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C930143</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S181C930143</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Beagin, Jen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://infosoup.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/930143181</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=OWLS2255&amp;password=CC54911&amp;Value=9781797149288&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item></channel></rss>