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A gripping thriller about a man's quest for the daughter no one else believes is still alive, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place. Q: Why are you called the Other People? A: We are people just like you. People to whom terrible things have happened. We've found solace not in forgiveness or forgetting. But in helping each other find justice. Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl's face appear in its rear window. She mouths one word: Daddy. It's his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again.

#1 New York Times bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year. One of Time Magazine’s Top Ten Books of the Year. Longlisted for the National Book Award. Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. A Good Morning America Book Club Pick. “Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal. “A story of absolute, universal timelessness …For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel.

Tracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them 2015. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she can't tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep." Back in 1999, Nick Brothers and his lacrosse teammates return for their senior year at their wealthy Maryland high school as the reigning state champions.

By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who must draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a stranger who wants to either control them—or kill them. Fourteen years before the cabin: Twenty-something Anne meets the man of her dreams right out of college, but after they get married, Anne notices that her husband begins acting differently. Why is Ethan suddenly so moody? And will their marriage endure?

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. One of the Top Ten Best Books of the Year —Publisher's Weekly. One of the Best Books of the Year —Vulture. “Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King.” —The Observer. “Builds a gothic plot to an artful and shocking climax.” —The New York Times. “Ends with a magnificent twist.” —The Boston Globe. From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out.

Two girls went down to the woods... But only one came back. There's a lot from Tess's childhood that she would rather forget. The family who moved next door and brought chaos to their quiet lives. The two girls who were murdered, their killer never found. But the only thing she can't remember is the one thing she wishes she could. Ten years ago, Tess's older sister died. Ruled a tragic accident, the only witness was Tess herself, but she has never been able to remember what happened that night in the woods. Now living in London, Tess has resolved to put the trauma behind her.

Each of us has a question we dread. In a quiet neighborhood in the wealthy Austin suburb of Lakehaven, the body of Danielle Roberts is discovered on a park bench. Danielle was a beloved member of the community, an adoption consultant who delivered the joy of parenthood to a number of local families. Her murder shocks Lakehaven. Perhaps no other family is as crushed as the Pollitts, who lived two houses down from Danielle and thought of her almost like family. Her death becomes the catalyst for a maelstrom of suspicion and intrigue.

A Reese’s Book Club Pick. "I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong." —Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient. "Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics... Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters' pasts. They are all clues." —New York Times Book Review.

"Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Bashō and decides to find solace in nature the way Bashō did, despite knowing nothing of the culture he's stepped into.

"A Song from Faraway is a collection of stories that address masculinity, identity, the impact of war, and fatherhood"--