<?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[bl results for nw:[0 TO 180]]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for nw:[0 TO 180]]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/smpl/rss/search?query=nw%3A%5B0%20TO%20180%5D&amp;searchType=bl&amp;f_AUDIENCE=adult&amp;f_FORMAT=BK&amp;f_ON_ORDER=false&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;sort=NEWLY_ACQUIRED&amp;suppress=true&amp;title_key=all_newly_acquired&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:19:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Reservation]]></title><description><![CDATA["On the morning of the most important booking in the long history of the celebrated restaurant, Aunt Orsa's erupts into chaos with the discovery that twenty-two rib eye steaks have been stolen. Hers is the most august of fine-dining establishments in this Midwestern college town, and tonight Orsa is set to host a large party honoring a very special guest--a bestselling author of national renown. And what's up with the recent spate of online reviews, from insulting to frankly terrible? Is Orsa, who wants only to be loved, being sabotaged on several fronts? No one is above suspicion, not the Mennonite baker nor the tattooed hard-ass chef de cuisine. Could the culprit be among the servers, or even the inexperienced undergrad working as hostess?"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C564784</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C564784</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kauffman, Rebecca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/564784190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781640097483/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ashland]]></title><description><![CDATA[A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose and a poetic portrayal of a town in decline during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses—of the dance between permanence and transformation. In Ashland, New Hampshire, Carolyn, born of a teenage pregnancy, grows up alongside her mother Ellie, her aunt Jennie, and her cousins. Ashland is the type of place that most people plan to leave, but few do. Beauty can be found in small things—the trees in the wind, the sky’s particular shade of blue, a swim in the river, love, and family. But life can often be unforgiving and solace hard to come by. Carolyn reconciles the losses in her own life with an education at Plymouth State, the local university, and then by capturing in words her world and the people who inhabit it. Recalling the novels of Richard Russo, Paul Harding, Marilynne Robinson, and Elizabeth Strout, Ashland is a novel of debut great intensity and poetry told in the voices of many vivid characters and, through them, in the voice of Ashland itself.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568185</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568185</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon, Daniel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568185190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798889661672/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House of Hidden Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA["Skye MacKinnon is desperate for an escape. When she wins a lottery to buy a run-down cottage on a Greek island for only one euro, Skye jumps at the chance to get out of England and start over. As she unlocks the tattered blue door of her whitewashed new cottage, the sun-kissed sea glinting in the bay outside her windows, Skye immediately feels like she's found her true home. Skye and the other lottery winners--the first residents in these houses since the 1940s--form a tight-knit group, finding in one another the strong relationships they'd been missing in their own lives. When Skye and local contractor Andreas discover a set of mysterious letters, they begin to unravel the history of the prior residents and the truth about life on Folegandros during the Second World War"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568238</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568238</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Broom, Isabelle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568238190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217190386/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell's Heart]]></title><description><![CDATA["Gideon the Ninth meets Moby-Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall's thrilling SF debut, Hell's Heart! They are monsters, legends, gods. They are our prey. Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of fuel. And by "fuel" I mean "the cerebrospinal fluid of gargantuan, quasi-psychic space monsters". I joined the hunt hoping to get paid and maybe laid, but mostly paid. Instead, I followed a captain chasing abominations in the skies of Jupiter. We battled the Möbius Beast itself, there in the red eye of the world. Spoiler: we lost"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568234</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568234</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hall, Alexis J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568234190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250394958/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pinky Swear]]></title><description><![CDATA["Once, Lexi thought she knew everything about Mara Vannatta. Best friends since middle school, they drifted apart after a tragedy derailed their senior year. But when Mara shows up on Lexi's doorstep sixteen years later fleeing an abusive husband, Lexi takes her in without question. Lexi's own marriage has been strained by her desire to have a baby, and when Mara offers to become her surrogate, their friendship feels stronger than ever. But four days before the due date, Mara disappears. Lexi is shocked but certain there must be something wrong--Mara would never willingly leave with her unborn child. Or would she? As she embarks on a perilous cross-country hunt for the truth, Lexi is forced to reconsider a friendship she thought she knew--and what really happened that terrible night their senior year. How many secrets lie in their shared past, waiting to be uncovered? And just how far will Lexi go to bring her child safely home?"-- Dust jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C564782</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C564782</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Girard, Danielle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/564782190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668096529/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flack]]></title><description><![CDATA["Curt Hinton and Angel Reddish are like a Hollywood buddy flick come to life: former college roommates turned lifelong best friends who always have each other's backs. So when Angel offers Curt the chance to leave his job at a failing newspaper and take a lucrative position as head of corporate communications at Balco, the Bay Area Logistics Company, Curt takes the leap. Nothing bad can happen with Angel at his side. That illusion is shattered on Curt's first day at Balco, when he learns that Angel was killed the night before during a carjacking. Tasked with writing a press release about the crime, Curt quickly discovers the carjacking wasn't random--it was a targeted attack by professional killers. Who would murder Angel? And why? The Oakland Police don’t have any answers. Neither does the FBI. As Curt is drawn into the mystery of his best friend’s death, he discovers there are many possible suspects—and that there’s a lot more danger swirling around his new employer than he could have ever imagined." -- Publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568217</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568217</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Parks, Brad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568217190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781608096473/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inharmonious]]></title><description><![CDATA[When three young Black men enlist in the US Army hoping to serve their country with honor, their lives are forever changed.  When Pearl Harbor is attacked in 1941, Cora's brother Benny rushes to enlist against the wishes of Cora and her mother. Able to pass as white due to his pale skin and light eyes, Benny reports for duty only to realize he's been mistakenly enlisted as a white man in a racially segregated military.  Lee has been friends with Benny ever since he was a troubled teenager, and he's been sweet on Cora for nearly as long. When Lee enlists without telling Cora, she is heartbroken and feels betrayed by the man she expected to spend the rest of her life with.  Meanwhile, family friend Roscoe, encouraged by Benny, offers to marry Cora in order to ensure that she and her mother--who both remain home--will be provided for should Benny not make it back.  Benny does return, but his new white identity leaves him struggling to find his place in between, in a country that only sees race. As America promises postwar prosperity to white veterans through the GI Bill, Black soldiers are excluded.  While the war may be over, the fight has only just begun for Cora, Lee, Benny, and Roscoe.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568245</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568245</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Huf, Tammye]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568245190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798874868376/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing]]></title><description><![CDATA["In August 1990, London is suffering through an unprecedented heatwave when baby Bella Carpenter is snatched through the open window of her hotel room. Detective Inspector Martha Allen is assigned the high-profile case and, knowing that it could make or break her career, is determined to find Bella. When a young woman named Nell Beatty walks into the police station with a baby who appears to be Bella, and whom Nell claims she found on a bench, it seems that the mystery is solved.  Her family, the police, and the press are overjoyed at her return. But DI Allen isn't convinced, something about Nell's story doesn't ring true. As much as she wants to continue, however, now that the baby is safe, she's ordered to close the investigation. Thirty years later, Nell Beatty is found dead. Now a superintendent, Allen has never really gotten over her doubts about the Carpenter case and can't resist doing a little digging on her own time, eager to find out what happened to Nell, and her involvement in the baby's disappearance all those years ago. But will her efforts uncover something darker than she could have ever imagined? And what is she risking as she tries once and for all to reveal the truth?"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568260</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568260</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jackson, E.A.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568260190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668079805/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother Is Watching]]></title><description><![CDATA["Mathilde 'Tilly' Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and art conservator, is tasked with restoring The Mother. The painting, believed to be the work of a female surgeon-turned-artist after a personal tragedy, is the rumored fourth piece in a collection of only three known works. But this newly discovered painting, scarred by fire, holds more than meets the eye. Soon after receiving the painting, Tilly discovers she's unexpectedly pregnant again, and strange, inexplicable occurrences begin: terrifying insect swarms, eerie visits from her long-deceased mother, and sinister whispers that invade her mind. As these malevolent forces intensify, Tilly comes to a harrowing realization that the only way to sever the perilous bond she shares with the painting is to destroy it. But The Mother has plans of her own--and they're darker than Tilly could ever imagine. As Tilly's obsession with the mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life"-- Front flap of dust jacket.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568265</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568265</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown, Karma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568265190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217045716/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under Water]]></title><description><![CDATA["An intense, atmospheric novel about the devastating power of friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic events. When Marissa loses her mother at five, the most intimate relationship of her life begins. Whisked across the globe to Thailand by her oceanographer father, who is determined to channel his grief into completing his wife's research, she meets Arielle, and a fairytale friendship takes hold. During the week, the girls live at the resort owned by Arielle's parents; on the weekends they join the tight community of researchers on a nearby island they are free to explore, discovering the wonders of its reefs and forests. Together they learn to dive, to hold their breath for minutes at a time, as effortlessly synchronized as the manta rays they come to know by name. Together they learn to swim their way out of danger. But then comes a wave Arielle can't outstrip, bringing Marissa a gutting loss. Years later, Marissa, is back in New York, adrift and haunted by the memory of her friend. Over the course of a single, fateful day, as another cataclysm approaches the oblivious city, she revisits her past and, as memory washes over her, discovers how to sustain herself in a fragile world"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568328</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568328</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Menon, Tara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568328190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217048311/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolf Worm]]></title><description><![CDATA["Sonia Wilson is a talented scientific illustrator--but she is only able to follow her dream because of her father's reputation as a renowned scientist. Such is the lot in life for a woman in science in 1899. And after his death, she is left without work, prospects, or hope. So when the reclusive Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his vast collection of insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house and put her talents to use. Once there though, she encounters dark happenings in the Carolina woods, and even darker questions come to light, like what happened to her predecessor? Why are animals acting so strangely, and what is behind the peculiar local whispers about 'blood thiefs?' With the aid of the housekeeper and a local healer, Sonia discovers that Halder's entomological studies have taken him down a twisted road. His ground-breaking discoveries come with a cost--one that Halder is paying with human flesh. If Sonia can't find a way to stop the monstrosity, she may be next under the knife." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568336</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568336</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kingfisher, T.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568336190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250829825/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am the Ghost Here]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twelve women confront the mounting existential terrors of modern life in this absurd, wryly hilarious debut story collection. A woman's limbs disappear into "the cloud" during wildfire-induced power outages. A lonely DoorDasher accidentally becomes the star of someone else's reality show, forced to resolve her fraught relationship with her immigrant mother for the narrative. Succumbing to a widely denied pandemic, a gymnastics coach must carry her heart around in a Mason jar, using her disability to become an influencer. Two chronically single, chronically ill people become soulmates, only to discover their meeting was algorithmically orchestrated by ad tech. Other dramas unfold as icebergs melt and island-sized trash heaps burn. Threaded with sharp social commentary, these stories question the engineering of human connection through technology, social media, and reality television. Warm, endlessly strange, and filled with dark yet hopeful humor, I Am the Ghost Here casts familiar crises of contemporary life in a wholly unique light, offering a pathway towards our shared humanity even as reality comes crumbling down.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568242</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568242</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Samek, Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568242190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217153572/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honeysuckle]]></title><description><![CDATA["Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exchange for being left in peace, his sister made him a playmate-Daye, a girl woven from flowers and words. And for the first time, this boy, Rory, had a friend. Rory couldn't be happier, until he learns that Daye is a short-lived creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And every time Daye falls apart might be her last. As Rory and Daye grow older and the line between friendship and romance begins to blur, Rory becomes desperate to break this cycle of bloom and decay. But the farther Rory pushes his research and experiments to lengthen Daye's existence, the more Daye begins to wonder just how much control she really has over her own life. As a loose reimagining of the story of Blodeuwedd from Welsh mythology, Honeysuckle is an entrancing, inventive, and unsettling debut." -- Jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568236</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568236</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fridman-Tell, Bar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568236190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781639736737/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Curious Case of the Poisoned Professor]]></title><description><![CDATA["After crossing the pond, Dr. Gwen Griffith finds herself in the quirky place she fell in love with, Dillynaidd, Wales. A former managing editor for a Texan newspaper, Gwen is ready for the next stage in her life as the head of the journalism department at the local university in town. With her best friend, Carolyn Sparks-who is also the university's dean-at her side, Dillynaidd feels like a dream, until murder comes knocking at her doorstep. Gwen had only just met the victim, Dr. Alice Rice, at a faculty party, but that doesn't stop police detective Gareth Jones from suspecting her of foul play-after all, the victim was found on her doorstep. With her journalism background, Gwen decides that it's up to her to clear her own name. But she'll need all the help she can get when her idyllic small-town life is turned upside down in order to stay one step ahead of the killer."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568203</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568203</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Connelly, Lucy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568203190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Welsh Village Mystery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798892424073/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisters in Yellow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hana has nothing – she’s fifteen years old and living in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears. Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana’s dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible. But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana’s hope, her optimism, and her drive will be pushed to the limit. A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568299</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568299</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kawakami, Mieko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568299190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593537732/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once and Again]]></title><description><![CDATA["Lauren has spent a lot of her life waiting. She spent her childhood on her surfboard, waiting to catch the perfect wave. She waited a long time for her husband Leo. Now she and Leo are together waiting for those two lines on a pregnancy test that will tell Lauren she's finally pregnant. But many women wait for those things. Lauren has also spent her life waiting to use the gift that only the women in her family have: the opportunity, just once, to turn back time and reverse a bad decision, or a moment of catastrophic luck. When Lauren was fifteen, her mother Marcella reversed the car crash that killed Lauren's father, and ever since then, both Marcella and Lauren have been extra cautious around Dave, and perhaps extra brittle with each other. Even though Dave is alive and healthy, and out on the Malibu waves every day. Lauren and Leo's marriage has been rock-steady for the three years they've been married, but their fertility journey is starting to wear on both of them. When Leo takes a six-week job in New York, Lauren temporarily moves back to her childhood house. She'll spend time with her dad, spend time on the water, and try not think about the relationship with her mother she wishes she had. What Lauren doesn't expect is to run into the love of her youth: fellow surfer Stone, back home for the first time in ten years. Since he left and broke Lauren's heart. Now Lauren's thinking about all the choices that have brought her to this moment in her life--and wondering if one of them should be undone." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C566503</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C566503</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Serle, Rebecca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/566503190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668025918/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bloodlust]]></title><description><![CDATA["Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a vicious act of retribution, and has since attributed her murder to two men: Roland Malone and the unidentified mastermind of the crime known only as Oz. Malone, a ruthless executioner and drug dealer who fronts as a restaurant owner, neutralizes so cleanly that he doesn't leave a trace. And he performs his handiwork at the biddings of Oz, the faceless kingpin of a drug trafficking operation whose name alone evokes terror. Obsessively vowing to avenge his late wife's murder, Mitch has been on a downward spiral, jeopardizing his closest relationships and drinking excessively to numb his pain. After going one step too far, Detective John Bowie, his former best friend and now his boss, has forced Mitch to get therapy to sort himself out. Dr. Dylan Reede is immediately empathetic to the pain she senses beneath Mitch's cavalier attitude and wisecracking. She's determined to make the most of his mandated sessions. But from the moment Mitch breezes into her office, Dylan finds it a struggle to maintain the professional and personal boundaries that keep her own tragic past at a safe distance. As Mitch begins to close in on Oz and Malone's operation, they're prepared to stop him by any means necessary. And when it's revealed that Dylan might hold the key to bringing them to justice, Mitch and Dylan's irresistible attraction to each other may not only compromise both of them professionally, but place them in Oz's bulls-eye"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C566370</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C566370</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown, Sandra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/566370190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538743027/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shock of the Light]]></title><description><![CDATA["Twins Tessa and Theo are roots of the same tree, in tune with one another's every thought and desire. As World War II takes hold across Europe, both are eager to do their part. Theo is recruited by the RAF and disappears into the skies, while Tessa jumps at the chance to join the Special Operations Executive, devoted to spying and sabotage behind enemy lines. It will be dangerous, highly classified work, but Tessa, despite all she shares with Theo, is no stranger to secret-keeping. Two years later, Theo comes home. Tessa does not. Theo, wounded, broken by the loss of his fellows and his sister, is indefatigable, angry, driven, a clandestinely gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal--and he will pay a price for pursuing answers about Tessa's fate. Decades later, PhD candidate Edie is deep into her research on the Special Operations Executive during the war. When she finds Theo in London, they form an unlikely partnership, and together they finally uncover the truth about Theo's beloved sister--a truth that stretches back to the summer Tessa spent in France before the war had even begun"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568298</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568298</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Inglis Hall, Lori]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568298190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593834251/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Give You My Silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toño Azpilcueta, writer of sundry articles, aspirant to the now defunct professorship of Peruvian studies, is an expert in the vals, a genre of music descended from the European waltz but rooted in New World Creole culture. When he hears a performance by the solitary and elusive guitarist Lalo Molfino, he is convinced not only that he is in the presence of the country’s finest musician, but that his own love for Peruvian music, as he has long suspected, has a profound social function. If he could just write the biography of the man before him and tell the story of both the vals and its attendant inspiring ethos, huachafería (Peru’s most important contribution to world culture, according to Toño), he might capture his country’s soul and inspire his fellow citizens remember the ties that bind them. Through music, the populace might unite and lay down their arms and embrace a harmonious and unified Peruvian culture. Both a send-up of parochial idealism and a love song to the culture of his homeland, Mario Vargas Llosa’s I Give You My Silence is the final novel of the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner, whose enduring works captured a changing Latin America. His tragic hero Toño, a man whose love for a democratic, proletarian music is at odds with the culture and politics of a modern Peru scarred by violence, is the writer’s last statement on the revelatory, maddening, and irrepressible belief in the transformative power of art.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C566080</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C566080</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vargas Llosa, Mario]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/566080190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374616250/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Defiant Woman]]></title><description><![CDATA["Eight years ago, Nan Tudor escaped her husband, billionaire businessman Hank Tudor, afraid for her life and leaving a dead body behind--but in doing so, she abandoned her three-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Still wracked with guilt for that decision, she is living a quiet life as a restaurant cook in France with her son when she receives a mysterious text: "We have your daughter." Lured back to the scene of the crime on Martha's Vineyard by a threat against Lizzie's life, Nan believes the kidnapper is exacting revenge against her--stopping at nothing to do so--and discovers that she and her daughter may not be the only targets. Kate Parker--Hank's sixth and latest wife--is also on the island and drawn into the kidnapper's elaborate web of retaliation. Keeping their alliance secret from Hank, Hank's fixer Thomas Cromwell, investigator Steve Gardiner, and reporter Tom Seymour, the two women find themselves in a race against time to rescue Lizzie--and to make sure they both stay alive"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C566061</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C566061</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Olson, Karen E.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/566061190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Modern Tudor Mystery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798897100545/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder by Memory]]></title><description><![CDATA["Near the top most deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn't hers--just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship's detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fair weather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies, but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot. Dorothy suspects the misfortune is partly the fault of her feckless nephew Ruthie who, despite his brilliance as a programmer, leaves chaos in his cheerful wake. Or perhaps the sultry yarn store proprieter--and ex-girlfriend of the body Dorothy is currently inhabiting--knows more than she's letting on. Whatever it is, Dorothy intends to solve this case. Because someone has done the impossible and found a way to make murder on the Fairweather a very permanent state indeed. A mastermind may be at work--and if so, they've had three hundred years to perfect their schemes..."--Publisher description.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C565995</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C565995</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Waite, Olivia]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/565995190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250342249/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[When We Meet Again]]></title><description><![CDATA["Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad walked out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when she was eighteen, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away as well. But when she's laid off from her reporting job, she finds herself completely adrift...until the day she receives a beautiful painting of a young woman standing at the edge of a sugarcane field under a violet sky. She recognizes the woman as her grandmother, but the painting arrived with no identification other than a handwritten note saying, "He never stopped loving her..." Curious, Emily begins to do some digging and uncovers a fascinating moment in American history. Her trail leads her to the POW internment camps of 1940s Florida, where German prisoners worked for American farmers...and sometimes fell in love with American women. But how does this all connect to the painting? The answer to that question will take Emily on a road that leads from the sweltering Everglades to Munich, Germany and back before she's done." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568333</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568333</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harmel, Kristin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568333190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668046050/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crossroads]]></title><description><![CDATA["Game warden Joe Pickett fights for his life as his daughters try to uncover who shot him and left him for dead. Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. Marybeth and the new sheriff assume that Joe was ambushed by one of the families, but they have no idea which one since Joe didn't say where he was going or why. With Joe unconscious and fighting for his life with Marybeth at his side, Sheridan, April, and Lucy split up and investigate each of families to uncover the truth of what happened to their father, before it's too late."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C564431</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C564431</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Box, C. J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/564431190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Joe Pickett Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593851098/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Did Not Kill My Husband]]></title><description><![CDATA[LA lifestyle influencer Cara Campbell is living the rags-to-riches dream with her plastic surgeon husband, Karl, and posting all about it on social media. But her happily ever after evaporates when she’s given a life sentence for murdering Karl during a romantic getaway. All evidence points to her, and her platform—as an unabashed gold digger—makes her look guilty as hell. Karl’s struggling business and million-dollar life insurance policy add plenty of motive. But the one thing Cara knows for sure is she didn’t do it. En route to the maximum-security prison where she’ll begin serving her sentence, the armored transport vehicle is torn apart in a horrific collision that sparks a wildfire at the scene. Desperately seizing this unexpected chance at freedom, Cara flees into the Sierra Nevada Mountains armed only with a cracked phone she found on the highway. Local sheriff Jordan Burke is first to respond and follows in hot pursuit. His desire to apprehend Cara is personal: he’s vulnerable in the next election, and a quick capture will help his chances. But as the sensational case explodes in the headlines, he finds himself second-guessed at every turn by a noisy chorus of murderinos, internet sleuths, and podcasters—as well as his blowhard political opponent. In the woods, Cara’s flight for survival becomes a journey of discovery. Who killed Karl, and why? Was her marriage built on lies? And who is she, really, without her millions of followers? As Jordan draws relentlessly closer, he, too, begins to question the truth. But to find the answers, he has to catch a fugitive.]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568243</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C568243</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keir, Linda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/568243190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798228310063/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Happiness Collector]]></title><description><![CDATA["After losing her book deal and her academic position, historian Aida Reale needs a new career, and fast. After all, she and her fiancé, Graham, have a wedding to pay for. So when a friend recommends her for an extremely high-paying position at a company called MODA, it feels like the perfect stroke of luck. And with a move to Italy and a breathtaking palazzo included, how could she say no? Aside from a snooty assistant, a daunting NDA and some very stringent rules about the use of personal technology, working for MODA is a dream come true--at least at first. But the more research Aida conducts for this elusive company, the more things feel off. Not only does her relationship with Graham suffer, but it seems like every site she visits either vanishes or is struck by tragedy soon after she's been there. It's only after a mysterious woman approaches Aida and Luciano, her devastatingly handsome and equally concerned MODA colleague, that they learn the truth: they are just mortal pawns in a game between gods. Now Aida must find answers to the question she's been avoiding. What's really happening to all the happiness she's been collecting...and can she stop the gods' plans before it's too late?"]]></description><link>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C558784</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S190C558784</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Crystal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/558784190</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780778387275/MC.GIF&amp;client=310-458-8600&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>