Mohsin Hamid
Two young white people deal with a changing world after one of them wakes up one morning with dark skin. Soon, others start to change and unrest grows.
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks
Patrick Radden Keefe
Rogues is a selection of Radden Keefe’s most celebrated articles published in The New Yorker.
Thief of Souls
Brian Klingborg
The brutal murder of a young woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing—but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim.
Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. Li
Five Chinese American college students try to steal priceless works of art from major museums in order to return them to the homeland from which they were pillaged.
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care
Ashley Herring Blake
Delilah Green returns to her hometown to photograph her stepsister’s wedding celebrations. What Delilah doesn’t expect is romance and friendship in a place she hated.
The Book of Cold Cases
Simone St. James
A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two 1977 cold case slayings.
The Night Shift
Alex Finlay
On New Year’s Eve 1999, four teenagers and their boss are attacked in a New Jersey Blockbuster Video. Fifteen years later, four teenagers are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive.
The Mistletoe Pact
Jo Lovett
On Christmas Eve eight years ago, friends Evie & Dan made a pact to get married if they were still single when Evie turns 30. Then they wake up on Christmas Eve after a night of drunk debauchery in Las Vegas and realize they actually did it. Surely, if they just get a quickie divorce, they can go back to the way things used to be, right? Except moving on is easier said than done when you’ve secretly loved each other forever…
The Twelve Dates of Christmas
Jenny Bayliss
Kate is happy with her life but has not fully given up on finding love. With some nudging from her best friend, Kate signs up for a dating agency’s twelve dates of Christmas to find love before the holidays. Will Kate find love with one of her twelve dates or give up all together?
Where They Found Her
Kimberly McCreight
Told through three women, Where They Found Her is the story about a small community and the mysterious death of an unknown infant.
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