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A Different Dawn (Nina Guerrera, #2)

Isabella Maldonado

Sep 17 - Oct 11
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For nearly thirty years a serial killer has been hiding in plain sight. So has the key to an FBI agent’s dark past.

A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than two thousand miles away. In the process, they’ll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale of La Llorona, which terrified her when she was an abandoned and vulnerable child. Now it’s back to haunt her.

Nina has known evil, but these macabre reenactments are as disturbing as they are baffling. Now she must uncover the meaning behind the rituals as the evidence leads her in an unexpected direction—far closer to home than anyone could have imagined. As the team narrows in on a suspect, the present collides with Nina’s past in a twist of fate that forces her to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Mystery

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Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Rax King

Sep 17 - Oct 2
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An irreverent and charming debut essay collection about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss--from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column Store-Bought Is Fine"

Tacky is about the power of pop culture--like any art--to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to good taste. These fourteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we hate to love--snakeskin pants, Sex and the City, Cheesecake Factory's gargantuan menu--into kinder and sharper perspective.

Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact, providing thoughtful, even romantic meditations on desire, love, and the power of nostalgia. An essay about the gym-tan-laundry exuberance of Jersey Shore morphs into an excavation of grief over the death of her father; in You Wanna Be On Top, Rax writes about friendship and early aughts girlhood; in another, Guy Fieri helps her heal from an abusive relationship.

The result is a collection that captures the personal and generational experience of finding joy in caring just a little too much with clarity, heartfelt honesty, and Rax King's trademark humor.

A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

Non-fiction
Humor and Comedy

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Assther

Rosa Golub

Sep 17 - Oct 18
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Assther Medina's idyllic childhood comes to an end with her mother's death from cancer. Inspired by the tragedy, she becomes a doctor and dedicates her life to trying to alleviate the suffering of others. When her best friend commits suicide, leaving behind an appeal for Assther to care for her orphaned child, she must turn to reporter Tina Ho, who has been investigating a surrogate agency whose children have been exhibiting strange behavior. Assther realizes that the story connects to reports in the media about dangerous AI and robotic children, resurrects the rumors and questions she's always had about her own birth and brings her back to her own father, whose work colleagues have been keeping important secrets for her entire life-secrets that someone is determined will remain hidden.

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When Assther entered the living room, her mother was in bed. Her eyes were closed. Dressed in a powder blue nightgown, the fleece blanket was pulled up to Hanna's waist. The air was stale. The room had the slight odor of sweat. Mouth open, Hannah's breathing was rapid and shallow. Despite repeated applications of Vaseline by Jem, her lips were cracked. Having lost so much weight, the skin on Hannah's face was sagging and sallow. Her fingers and toes were turning cold and blue. To ease Hannah's discomfort, Jem was administering morphine and oxygen.

Sensing that her mother's death may be imminent, Assther decided it would be best if her father wasn't present during her mother's last moments; he wouldn't be able to handle it. Also, they had already said their goodbyes, and the woman he loved was long gone. It was up to Assther to spare him the anguish. So she suggested they get some dinner together.

That evening, Death entered silently through the window. It had been nearby for months, slowly extracting the life out of Hannah. The curtain moved slightly against the closed window as it entered the room. Sitting by Hannah's bedside, Jem shivered and glanced around her, but saw no one. Tonight Death hovered over Hannah and observed her for a while. Then its ethereal fingers blanketed her. Face to face with Hannah, Death said, Hannah, I'm here. It's time to go."

"I'm ready," Hannah replied.

Fiction
Science fiction

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And the Bridge Is Love

David Biro

Sep 17 - Oct 12
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Three old friends, two secrets, one love—and a whole new beginning.

Every week for twenty years, three friends meet in a leafy enclosure under the Verrazzano Bridge: Gertie, a feisty Norwegian divorcée and former athlete; Maria, a family-obsessed Italian American widow; and Corinna, a book-loving, hash-smoking eccentric. Together they sit and watch the sea as the ships—and the last years of their lives—sail by. On the eve of Gertie’s eightieth birthday, they realize that time is running out. Gertie decides she wants to travel the world. Maria secretly plots to reunite Gertie and Corinna with their estranged families. And Corinna falls in love.

As the three women strike out in different directions, a series of events unfolds that threatens to destroy the most precious thing of all: their friendship. Heartfelt and humorous, And the Bridge Is Love invites readers to travel alongside these dynamic women on the journey of a lifetime in this inspiring novel about love, family, and forgiveness.

Fiction

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The Other Man

Farhad J. Dadyburjor

Sep 17 - Oct 12
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A heartwarming and transporting romantic comedy about finding happy ever after on your own terms.

Heir to his father’s Mumbai business empire, Ved Mehra has money, looks, and status. He is also living as a closeted gay man. Thirty-eight, lonely, still reeling from a breakup, and under pressure from his exasperated mother, Ved agrees to an arranged marriage. He regrettably now faces a doomed future with the perfectly lovely Disha Kapoor.

Then Ved’s world is turned upside down when he meets Carlos Silva, an American on a business trip in India.

As preparations for his wedding get into full swing, Ved finds himself drawn into a relationship he could never have imagined―and ready to take a bold step. Ved is ready to embrace who he is and declare his true feelings regardless of family expectations and staunch traditions. But with his engagement party just days away, and with so much at risk, Ved will have to fight for what he wants―if it’s not too late to get it.

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Contemporary

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