Amazonian River Fever has decimated Prague, forcing the few survivors of the savage pandemic to flee to the uninfected village of Otočka. Doctor Eliška Korbova, having desperately tried to save as many people as she could, is hopeful that the village will be their salvation. But Otočka is no paradise. The colonel in charge, the doctor’s half-sister, is fast becoming a tyrant, and a new fearful ideology is taking hold. With everyone around her descending into madness and barbarism, Eliška must find a way to stop the colonel and save the village before it’s too late.

How do you know that the stories you tell yourself, about yourself, are true? Where do they come from? What if they are actually based on distorted memories? Maggie is newly qualified, full of self-doubt and trying desperately to pretend that the dark tragedy in her past never happened. When a client, remarkably like her younger self, arrives for therapy, her carefully constructed defences are put to the test.

Abigail Hirst, a city reporter, returns to her hometown to take over Second Hand Rose, a quintessential antique store, following the sad passing of her beloved Grandmother, Rose. This new life seems perfect for Abigail and her trusted terrier Jake, until she starts to notice strange happenings. Gruesome deaths and mysterious disappearances are catching up with this chocolate-box town named Friendship, as Abigail digs deeper in her investigations.

From USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American slavery and rocked the nation with his astoundingly heroic story. A passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, Ann’s activism was derailed just before her twenty-fourth birthday, when she fell sick with a mysterious illness.

Caribbean-island innkeeper Holly Walker is hunkering down against a monster hurricane. Unfortunately, so is player Lord Anthony Bascombe, a man who excuses his bad behavior by saying he is descended from pirates. Then her grown son, Byron, and his father, Montez—the man she’s never stopped wanting—go missing. Will she ever see them again? What about the many others hurt and dying? And will help ever arrive? With each passing day, Holly’s tumultuous past and the epic storm send her hurtling toward a shattering climax that will change the island—and Holly’s life—forever.

Identical twins. Billy and Tommy Jones were born out of wedlock in Lancashire, England in 1921 at a time when such a thing was regarded as a disgrace. Tommy was taken by a catholic priest and placed in an orphanage the day after his birth. Neither boy knows they have a brother until thirty-two years later. The trajectory of each boy’s life takes them to different parts of the world where they suffer the consequences of circumstances beyond their control which they must confront and resolve.

Donna McCarthy, an ambitious Estate Agent, falls victim of a killer who leaves no trace of her body. Recently demoted DC Carter - overweight and heavy drinking - believes his superiors are making a mistake when they suspect her husband. Donna’s sons embark on an intense search for their missing mother. They soon face the glaring possibility that she is not only missing but has been murdered. But who is responsible? And why is there no evidence in the ex-mining town of Monkey Island? There can be only one answer: The Killer is from The Island.

Nominated for The National Book Award, Alle C. Hall’s literary fiction debut, As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back is a-girl-and-her-backpack story with a #MeToo influence: Carlie is not merely traveling. A child sexual abuse survivor, as a teen she steals ten thousand dollars and runs away to Asia. There, the Lonely Planet path of hookups, heat, alcohol, and drugs takes on a terrifying reality. Landing in Tokyo in the late 1980s, Carlie falls in with an international crew of tai chi-practicing backpackers.

Einstein’s Compass by Grace Blair is a “YA Time Traveler Adventure.” Historical fantasy science fiction. The book intertwines events in Albert Einstein’s life with fantastical elements while including scientific concepts. Topics that emerge include coming of age, antisemitism, and bullying. Most of us are familiar with Einstein’s legacy as a scientific genius and a giant of physics. But where did his ideas originate? How can one person be so brilliant?

Katherine MacDonald is on her own. Divorced with two small children while Edinburgh is being bombed during World War II, she is desperate to survive. Her long hours working at a laundry barely pay her bills. Her only solace is writing, but she could never imagine how a little pen found in an antiques store would change her life. Astonished, Katherine watches as the pen drags her hand across pages, scrawling out words from the past—the words of the medieval knight Francois Jacques LaMar.