A Burning

• Author : Megha Majumdar
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 21 January 2021

Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely--an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor--has the alibi

• Author : Megha Majumdar
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 29 June 2021

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! A New York Times Notable Book For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise--to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies--and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. In this National Book Award Longlist honoree and "gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary" (USA Today), Jivan is a Muslim girl

• Author : Megha Majumdar
• Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
• Release : 30 July 2021

"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely, a

• Author : Paula Hawkins
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 August 2021

Years ago someone lit a match... Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes doesn't mean Laura is a killer. Bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Carla is reeling from the brutal murder

• Author : Belva Plain
• Publisher : Dell
• Release : 21 July 2010

Teresa Francis could never go home again to the lush Caribbean island of her birth. Even at fifteen, as she fled to Paris to avoid scandal, Teresa knew that the island was her past, never to be spoken of again. Her future lay in New York, in a hasty marriage to a charming, wealthy man who would give her children yet never piece her wall of reserve. But the island was in the Francis blood. And nothing could keep Teresa’

• Author : Amie Kaufman,Jay Kristoff
• Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Release : 05 May 2020

Our heroes are back . . . kind of. From the bestselling co-authors of the Illuminae Files comes the second book in the epic Aurora Cycle series about a squad of misfits, losers, and discipline cases who just might be the galaxy's best hope for survival. First, the bad news: an ancient evil--you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal--is about to be unleashed. The good news? Squad 312 is standing by to save the day. They've just got to take care of a few small

• Author : Isaac Marion
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 07 February 2017

Library Journal’s Must-Have Spring Books, Editors’ Picks 2017 “A thrilling coast-to-coast journey.” —The Seattle Times “A richly imagined philosophical exploration.” —Bellingham Herald “Exciting action, intriguing characters, epic scale.” —Booklist (starred review) “Poignant and poetic...brings zombie lit back from the dead.” —The Stranger The New York Times bestseller Warm Bodies captured hearts worldwide in twenty-five languages, inspiring a major film and a cult fandom. Now R the reluctant zombie continues his journey in this much-anticipated sequel. Being alive is hard.

• Author : Ellen Hopkins
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 10 September 2013

Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.

• Author : Jessica Cluess
• Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
• Release : 20 September 2016

"Vivid characters, terrifying monsters, and world building as deep and dark as the ocean." --Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen I am Henrietta Howel. The first female sorcerer in hundreds of years. The prophesied one. Or am I? Henrietta Howel can burst into flames. Forced to reveal her power to save a friend, she's shocked when instead of being executed, she's invited to train as one of Her Majesty's royal sorcerers. Thrust into the glamour of

• Author : John Connolly
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 14 June 2016

Includes excerpt from The wrath of angels.

• Author : Tracy Chevalier
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 20 March 2007

From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie Butterfield. As their stories intertwine

• Author : C. J. Tudor
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 21 January 2021

The darkly compelling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne and The Other People, soon to be a major TV series 'Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt her best yet, The Burning Girls left me sleeping with the lights on' CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month We Begin at the End 'A gothic, spine-tingling roller-coaster of a story . . . CJ Tudor is a master of horror' C.J.

• Author : Tabitha King,Michael McDowell
• Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
• Release : 30 July 2021

In the wake of her father's torture, murder, and dismemberment, Calliope "Calley" Dakin and her mother flee to Pensacola Beach where a woman waits for Calley, who is no ordinary little girl.

• Author : Kate Mosse
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 03 May 2018

Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse's number one bestselling novel, The Burning Chambers, is a gripping story of love, betrayal, war and adventure, conspiracies, and divided loyalties. Carcassonne 1562. Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever.

• Author : Haig A. Bosmajian
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 30 July 2021

"This work provides a detailed account of book burning worldwide over the past 2000 years. The book burners are identified, along with the works they deliberately set aflame"--Provided by publisher.