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In a sprawling apartment complex in Delhi built by a powerful political patriarch, the members of the Chopra family struggle to build their own futures while living under the weight of his legacy. As India enters a time of political change, the family's ambitions, rivalries, and loyalties begin to collide. Sachin Chopra and his wife, Gita, attempt to start a new life in the United States, hoping to escape the pressures of the family compound. But the pull of home remains strong, especially as Sachin's uncle Laxman rises in a growing nationalist political movement and long-buried secrets begin to surface. As personal betrayals and political upheaval threaten the family's fragile unity, the Chopras must confront the true cost of power, ambition, and loyalty.

When Mei Lei runs into Alexandre Broduer at a family function there is no denying their chemistry. Alexandre is her brother-in-law's brother and Mei is his sister-in-law's sister. And he's a wrecking ball in Mei's life, making her question if she is still charmed by her fiance's needy tendencies. And she is laser focused on her job at Livin', the tech world's hottest start-up as the Senior Director of Brand Marketing, and she goes home to her adoring fiancé, Joey. He keeps Mei grounded during her eighty-hour weeks. Alexandre is a biology professor, back in New York after failing to achieve tenure in Oregon, and is unenthused about starting over after two decades of Zebrafish research. But he is more than ready for a fresh start, even if the prospect of teaching role at a state school is disappointing. Mei's wedding date is approaching, and she must make a choice.

In 1928 Chattanooga, the discovery of a breathtaking underground waterfall, soon named Ruby Falls, draws crowds even as the Great Depression threatens the attraction's future. Hoping for a publicity boost, a famous mind reader agrees to descend into the caverns with a small group to perform a daring psychic stunt. Young cave enthusiast Ada secretly follows at a distance with another guide, acting as a safety net in case something goes wrong. But when one member of the party is found dead, Ada realizes there's a killer in their midst. Trapped deep underground with fading light and rising fear, she must lead the group back to the surface-before the murderer strikes again.

Charlie Kilgore was too young to remember anything, really, about how events on the lake unfolded twenty-five years ago. He just knows what he's been told: that his father stabbed a man to death, left Charlie's mother critically wounded, and then disappeared, never to be seen again. Now Charlie believes there must be more to what happened. Using the shards of the story he's uncovered so far as the heart of a true crime podcast, Charlie returns to his hometown in the foothills of New Hampshire's White Mountains. Old friends, family, authorities, and even collateral victims have moved on, and no one wants to dredge up what's long forgotten. Except Charlie. He wants to know what could have transformed a quiet man into a monster. And what happened next. But when Charlie starts asking questions of people with so much to hide, getting to the truth becomes dangerous. Because on this lake--in this family--the past isn't dead and buried at all. In fact, it's back with a vengeance.

Maggie Wang, a broke young Asian American writer, needs a lifeline. Ingrid Parker, a veteran white Hollywood producer with her career on the edge, offers an irresistible deal: $3 million for ten experimental medical sessions promising to reverse her aging, using Maggie as a transfusion partner. For Ingrid, it's a chance to reboot her fading career. For Maggie, it's freedom--money to support her parents and finally finish her novel. What starts as a professional transaction exchanging blood quickly becomes a complex psychological dance. Maggie gains unprecedented access to Ingrid's hard-earned wisdom, while Ingrid sees in Maggie a potential protégé--and a weapon against an industry that's been trying to sideline her. As their relationship intensifies, they're forced to confront the harsh realities of race, age, and success. Who has the power to tell stories? And what are they willing to sacrifice to succeed?

"Ever since childhood,' writes Neil deGrasse Tyson, 'I've wanted to be abducted by Aliens.' Take Me to Your Leader is the culmination of a lifetime of fascination, speculation, and the amassing of scientific data about the possibility of Aliens visiting Earth. Drawing on a wealth of depictions from history, literature, pop culture, and film, Tyson applies the universal laws of physics to make the case for what Aliens might look like, act like, how they might travel through the universe to reach us, and what they might think of us upon arrival. Should such an event occur, Tyson further offers useful etiquette tips for your first close encounter. If you've ever wondered why there are so many UFO sightings, or whether Aliens might already be among us, Tyson offers an informed perspective that is both factual and fun. Take Me to Your Leader is a tantalizing exploration of what would be the most mind-blowing experience of your life--the book for anyone who has ever wondered: Are we alone?

In the heart of Las Vegas, Unified Stars Studios rolls in to film Sons of the Texas Star, starring cowboy superstar Matt McCoy and his twin brother Mark. But during the filming of the climactic scene, a live round is slipped into Mark's revolver instead of a blank, and Matt is found dead in the foyer of a luxurious hacienda. Sheriff Conor Armenta must navigate the glamorous yet shadowy world of Hollywood's burgeoning film industry to uncover the truth behind Matt McCoy's murder. As he delves deeper into the glamorous facade, the truth is far more sinister than any cinema illusion.

Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a devastating war, Etna decides one night to leave the men he has fought alongside for years and return home--to the place where he was taken from when he was young, in the thin but persistent hope that if a home exists for him, it might be there. Thus begins an exhilarating odyssey told through the eyes of a dog as he traverses across ruined landscapes and fights to survive in a world that, even in peacetime, proves to be just as precarious. Along the way, he encounters other animals and humans who are attempting to figure out how to start again. What makes a life when there is no home to go back to? How do we begin to trust each other again after such profound loss?

An Icelandic night may hide secrets and affairs - or even bodies - in this gruesomely cathartic horror thriller from the author of The Night Guest. Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. When she tracks down the cat's wayward owner, she finds a young woman just as lost and in need of help. Like a gust of cold air in a Reykjavík night, Ásta and her pet slip into Unnur's life. It's unexpected, but welcome. Unnur likes the company, and she begins to rely on Ásta in turn. But like a black cat, trouble has been tailing her new friend, and Unnur is the only one there for Ásta when things take a violent turn. The two women quickly learn: nothing tests a friendship like blood on your hands.

This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics. Ellie's universe, and this one, is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Chinese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it's supposed to. Daniel, Ellie's cousin, has found an illicit device in the skunkworks-one that keeps Ellie's comatose mother alive while also creating destabilizing bugs in the physics of this universe. It's not a good day. If she can confront her mother's legacy and overcome her family's generational trauma, she just might find a way to preserve the skunkworks and reconcile with her sister...but digging into her family's past is thornier than it seems, and the secrets she uncovers will force Ellie to choose between her family and the universe itself.

Carol is delighted to be leaving her tiny prison cell behind to take her place in a luxury retirement home. She's hoping her past as a serial killer won't come to light so she can make a few friends and find some murder-free hobbies. But it's not long before a fellow resident, who happens to be a former police commissioner, drops dead, and Carol's true identity is leaked. Making catching up over daily activities of bingo and baking rather awkward. Just her luck, Carol soon realizes that the victim wasn't the only former law enforcement officer at Sheldon Oaks. It's filled to the brim with former cops, barristers, and government representatives, her newfound friends included. And everyone thinks Carol's guilt is a no-brainer, but she is ready to prove them dead wrong. Without killing anyone, for once.

In 1934, Will Hassett is working as a journalist when he gets a call from an old friend who now works at the White House. He arrives expecting to catch up on old times but is instead brought right into the Oval Office to meet with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who needs help on his speeches. For the next twelve years, Will is at FDR's side through the worst of the Depression, three re-election campaigns, and World War II. The Yankee Sphinx, inspired by Will Hassett's real diaries, focuses on the last few years of FDR's life. From Will's perspective, we witness FDR managing the Allied military campaign abroad and parrying shots from isolationist politicians at home-all while reckoning with his rapidly deteriorating health.

Ten years ago, aspiring singer-actress Scout Sage lost her sister, Georgia, the only thing that mattered. Since Georgia's mysterious death at a Hollywood party, Scout's done her best to honor her memory, clawing her way through the industry and collecting a network of fellow climbers. But then a spate of targeted murders make headlines, framing Scout as the killer. Overnight she turns from a mid-tier pop star into the world's most famous (alleged) murderer. Now everything will fall apart unless she can prove she's not guilty. Meanwhile, the detective assigned to her case begins to unearth secrets not even Scout knows, including the connections between Georgia's death and older pattern of crimes long hushed up in Hollywood.

Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he died seven months ago. His voice is alive in the notes in the margins, and it's enough. Until she receives a call from Nadia, asking for her help. She tells Jo a tale of a giant jellyfish terrorizing her island off the coast of Maine and sends video footage. Frankly, it looks fake, but Jo flys across the country. She couldn't save Aldo, but perhaps she can help Nadia. But when she arrives, Nadia is missing. Instead she meets the islanders who each have something to say about Clementine, a jellyfish who changes all who see it.

On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm.

It's always sunny in Detroit for Faith Richards. The popular TV meteorologist, endearingly referred to as "The Fair Weather Friend" by her viewers, has the world by the tail. But one night, Faith leaves work on a dinner break and never returns. Her body is found the next morning. The town is reeling, suspects emerge, and long-buried secrets are uncovered. While her allies rally, her list of adversaries also grows. Little does anyone know that only the deepest secrets will expose the truth.

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America. Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This attitude became brutally clear during the height of the COVID pandemic, when too many people saw elderly deaths not as tragedies but as foregone conclusions. Like many of us, Lucy Schiller experienced this callousness firsthand when her grandmother passed away during the pandemic. In the wake of this trauma, propelled by equal parts grief and curiosity about her own fear of aging, Schiller embarked on an investigative journey to understand why the prospect of aging is so frightening and how being 'old' in America intersects with class, race, disability, and public policy. From profit-driven networks of care facilities to systemic failures in economic support, the future of older Americans looks increasingly uncertain. In Aging Out, Schiller reports this crisis, sharing the human toll of inadequate housing, health care, and community, while simultaneously excavating her own complicated relationship with aging. Combining the incisive reporting of Evicted with the beautifully rendered introspection of The Empathy Exams, Aging Out is an intimate and unflinching exploration of what it means to age in this country and why Americans--including Schiller herself--are so terrified of getting old.

High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed eighty-two-year-old narrator of Elegy in Blue looks out across the rooftops of Brooklyn all the way to the sea. His distinguished career on Wall Street is in ruins, his mansion in Brooklyn Heights has been burned to the ground, and most of all, his father, his son, and his wife - the stunningly beautiful and equally kind Clare - have been taken from him, one by one, over the decades, by war and an act of antisemitic violence. Now his "allegiance is to this ghosts." He's almost lost to memory, reflection, and a purposeful letting go of life. But when violence threatens to destroy another family, he takes drastic action in hope of restoring a portion of justice to the world. Can he fashion his life into an elegy, one that heals a broken heart and relieves the sting of death?

Fairfield County is the only place the Bolton family has ever called home. For over a century, they have cultivated this land, raising horses, and passing this knowledge on to the next generation. Dwayne is the reluctant inheritor of this legacy. When he's orphaned by a barn fire, the pain of this history is almost too much to bear. He maintains the family farm and raises his daughter Nikki there, but the land is a shell of what it once was. Nikki is a natural rodeo prodigy with no knowledge of her family history. But when events that threaten to take the only land they've ever known, Dwayne must confront his past so that Nikki can step into her future."

Now that her career as a literary agent is over, Petra is stuck in a bookshop. Ross McCloud's debut novel blew people's minds five years ago, but now he and his awaited second work have vanished. When Petra discovers him lurking in the second-hand books section, a kinship forms. In the meantime, Petra's is starting to see some perks at the shop. Her book recommendations are legendary; she's chairing a book club; she's leading a writing group; she's hosting talks by authors. And she's helping launch the inaugural Portneath Literary Festival, becuse Ross thinks unveiling his second novel at the Festival will put it on the map.