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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead by Jenny Hollander

Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve—events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"—though Charlie knows she was much more than that.

Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief of a major magazine, engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry, and hell-bent on never, ever letting her guard down again. But when a buzzy film made by one of Charlie's former classmates threatens to shatter everything she's worked for, Charlie realizes how much she's changed in nine years. Now, she's not going to let anything—not even the people she once loved most—get in her way.

The Resort by Sara Oochs

Welcome to paradise. We hope you survive your stay.

There are three rules to follow during a vacation at the famous Koh Sang resort.

1. Leave the past behind. When Cass sets foot on the coast of Thailand’s world-famous party island, she’s searching for an escape. With dark secrets following her every move, Koh Sang becomes the perfect place to hide.

2. Always be careful who you trust. Now, years later, Cass is a local dive instructor alongside the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimed the island as their own. The Permanents don’t linger on who they were before the island. Simply because, like Cass, they all have something to outrun.

3. If someone discovers who you really are, run. But suddenly, a dive student is found dead and paradise comes crashing down. Because this isn’t the first mysterious death on the island, and it won’t be the last. Someone knows who Cass is, and they’re ready to make sure justice is finally served.

The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C.L. Miller

What antique would you kill for?

Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English hometown, but when she receives a letter from Arthur asking her to investigate—sent just days before his death—Freya has no choice but to return to a life she had sworn to leave behind.

Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole, Freya follows clues to an old manor house for an advertised antiques enthusiast’s weekend. But not all is as it seems. It’s clear to Freya that the antiques are all just poor reproductions, and her fellow guests are secretive and menacing. What is going on at this estate and how was Arthur involved? More importantly, can Freya and Carole discover the truth before the killer strikes again?

End of Story by A.J. Finn

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”

So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective-fever.”

“You and I might even solve an old mystery or two.”

Twenty years earlier—on New Year’s Eve 1999—Sebastian’s first wife and teenage son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past?

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian’s life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . . . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family’s koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn’t gone—it’s just waiting.

Fatal First Edition by Jenn McKinlay

Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully return the book to the conference director, not wanting to stir up any trouble.

But just hours after the pair boards the train back to Connecticut, rumors that the Highsmith novel has gone missing buzz amongst the passengers, and they soon find the conference director murdered in his private compartment. And worse—the murderer planted the book in Lindsey and Sully’s room next door, making them prime suspects. Now, they must uncover the murderer and bring them to the end of their line, before they find themselves booked for a crime they didn’t commit.

My Name was Eden by Eleanor Baker-White

One twin vanished. The other twin remained. Until now...

When her daughter Eden came home from the hospital, Lucy was profoundly relieved. Eden had survived a drowning incident and had no apparent brain damage, no serious injuries, not even a scratch on her. Lucy fervently welcomed having a second chance at being the good mother she should have been before her teenager’s accident.

Until Eden tells her that Eden isn’t her name. Until she starts calling herself Eli. The name Lucy had reserved for Eden’s unborn twin.

Don’t worry, says the doctor. Eden is completely fine, says her husband. Of course I’m fine, Eden says, with that strange new smile of hers. I didn’t die. I’m here.

But Lucy knows something’s very wrong with Eden. She’s not her maddening, complicated teenage girl anymore—this straight-backed, even tempered, steady-eyed child in her house is someone else entirely. Eden, it seems, is the twin who disappeared…

A Catered Quilting Bee by Isis Crawford

Quilts, quiet, and delicious food. That’s exactly what Bernie and Libby expect as they build the menu for the Longely Sip and Sew Quilting Circle’s first-ever exhibition hosted at the local library. The eclectic ladies of the group couldn’t appear more harmlessly wholesome if they tried, especially mild-mannered kindergarten teacher Cecilia Larson, who hired A Little of Taste of Heaven to cater the event. So it’s a complete shock when disturbing news drops about member Ellen Fisher, found hanging from a plant hook in her otherwise pristine sewing room . . .

All are very quick to deem the tragic death a suicide. All except for Cecilia. She believes something else happened to her best friend—who was busy adding the finishing stitches on her greatest work yet in hopes of displaying it at the exhibition—and looks to Bernie and Libby to expose the truth . . . and the killer. As Ellen’s patchy past comes into focus along with a mysterious connection to a missing seven-hundred-year-old quilt fragment, can the sisters unravel the victim’s final thread before another turns up dead?

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Ethics

B5305 .M988 2023 African philosophical adventures / by John Murungi

BD331 .B5927 2012 Alien phenomenology, or, What it's like to be a thing / Ian Bogost

BF1434.E85 S87 2015 Superstition and magic in early modern Europe : a reader / edited by Helen Parish

BF485 .P75 2022 Laziness does not exist : a defense of the exhausted, exploited, and overworked / Dr. Devon Price

BF637 M56 T795 2021 Stop overthinking : 23 techniques to relieve stress, stop negative spirals, declutter your mind, and focus on the present / by Nick Trenton

BF698.35.R47 C64 2023 Critical resilience and thriving in response to systemic oppression : insights to inform social justice in critical times / Melissa L. Morgan

BP161.3 .M676 2022 A short history of Islamic thought / Fitzroy Morrissey

D: World History

DG274 .B368 2021 Evil Roman emperors : the shocking history of ancient Rome's most wicked rulers from Caligula to Nero and more / Phillip Barlag

DG445 .V65 2022 Voices of the Renaissance : contemporary accounts of daily life / John A. Wagner, editor

DJ109 .W5413 2020 A history of the Netherlands : from the sixteenth century to the present day / Friso Wielenga

DK131 .B897 2016 Peter the Great / Paul Bushkovitch

DK266 .F515 2022 The shortest history of the Soviet Union / Sheila Fitzpatrick

DK502.7 .K37 2017 A history of the Baltic states / Andres Kasekamp

DR486 .B33 2021 The Ottomans : khans, caesars, and caliphs / Marc David Baer

DS59.K86 G868 2017 The Kurds : A Modern History / Michael M. Gunter

DS668 .N33 2020 The history of the Philippines / Kathleen Nadeau

DS779.47 .E27 2022 The world according to China / Elizabeth C. Economy

E & F: American History & Western Hemisphere

E173 .H5 2022 A documentary history of the United States / Richard D. Heffner and Alexander B. Heffner

E183 .F86 2021 Foundations of American political thought : readings and commentary / Alin Fumurescu

E185.625 .M684 2017 Black and blur / Fred Moten

E185.8 .M345 2023 The economics of structural racism : stratification economics and US labor markets / Patrick L. Mason, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

E29.N3 F84 2021 Becoming free, becoming Black : race, freedom, and law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana / Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. Gross

E76.6 .U53 2022 Understanding and teaching Native American history / edited by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti

E97.5 .K784 2023 From the boarding schools : Apache Indian students speak / Arnold Krupat

E98.E85 D35 2023 The complexities of American Indian identity in the twenty-first century / Sean M. Daley and Christine Makosky Daley

E98.S46 S63 2016 Social issues in contemporary native America : reflections from Turtle Island / edited by Hilary N. Weaver

F3321 .K54 2022 A concise history of Bolivia / Herbert S. Klein, Columbia University and Stanford University

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

GE196 .B52 2022 Green living made easy : 101 eco tips, hacks and recipes to save time and money / Nancy Birtwhistle

GT2290 .T738 2023 Trauma, tresses & truth : untangling our hair through personal narratives / edited by Lyzette Wanzer

GT4995.A4 M36 2022 Day of the Dead in the USA : the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon / Regina M. Marchi

GV191.62 .L47 2022 Let's go outside! / Ben Lerwill ; illustrated by Marina Ruiz

H: Social Sciences: Business, Economics, Sociology

HC79.I5 J29 2023 Welfare for markets : a global history of basic income / Anton Jager and Daniel Zamora Vargas

HD1382.5 .C73 2020 Skip the flip : secrets the 1% know about real estate investing / Hayden Crabtree

HD45 .L434 2022 The digital mindset : what it really takes to thrive in the age of data, algorithms, and AI / Paul Leonardi & Tsedal Neeley

HD9696.8.U64 G665249 2023 Behind the search box : Google and the global internet industry / ShinJoung Yeo

HD9993.E452 S37 2021 Press reset : ruin and recovery in the video game industry / Jason Schreier

HF5813.U6 F54 2021 50s : all-American ads / edited and with an introduction by Jim Heimann

HG179 .A435 2021 Get good with money : ten simple steps to becoming financially whole / Tiffany Aliche

HM1116 .D89 2022 Violence : a very short introduction / Philip Dwyer

HM1266 .N45 2021 On freedom : four songs of care and constraint / Maggie Nelson

HM621 .J66 2023 Celebrity nation : how America evolved into a culture of fans and followers / Landon Y. Jones

HM742 .B357 2022 Social TV : multi-screen content and ephemeral culture / Cory Barker

HM831 .V65 2023 Voice, agency and resistance : emancipatory discourses in action / edited by Mark Nartey

HN57 .A5844 2022 Rough draft of history : a century of U.S. social movements in the news / Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren

HQ1075 .P33 2021 Objectification : on the difference between sex and sexism / Susanna Paasonen, Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, John Mercer and Clarissa Smith