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In a magical New York, two families of witches battle for control. The Antonova sisters are beautiful, cunning and ruthless; their mother the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants. Their rivals, the influential Fedorov brothers, serve their crime boss father, whose enterprise dominates the shadows of magical Manhattan. A fraught twelve-year stalemate between the two families breaks, just as internal conflicts could destroy each of them from within. Will anyone survive?

A bestselling Richard & Judy book club book, this heart-racing thriller set in the world of high finance is the latest book from David Baldacci. Travis Devine leaves the Army under a cloud of suspicion and turns instead to New York's financial district where greed, jealousy and ambition result in the financial abuse of the masses and the enrichment of an elite few. But on his daily commute on the 6:20 a.m. train, he passes a house where he sees something that sounds alarm signals. His close friend and colleague is the first victim, and as the deaths pile up and the major players show their hands, he must question who he can trust and who he must fight.

Taking you from an alternate nineteenth-century America to 1990s New York, before coming to land in a totalitarian 2093, riven by plagues, To Paradise is a ‘masterpiece’ (don’t just take my word for it, this is from The Observer). Yanagihara weaves the three carefully created worlds together to devastating effect.

1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France’s neighbours are on high alert. Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge’s prosperous cloth mills a misery. 

Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people – including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal’s inventive and headstrong son – will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression . . .

Surely a future American classic, Kristin Hannah’s sweeping bestseller is set in drought-riven Depression-era Texas. Elsa must decide whether to fight for the land she loves or travel west to California in search of a better life. A story of survival, hope and the lengths we go to for the people we love.

The Passenger begins with a sunken jet, nine passengers and an absent body. It is the story of a salvage diver, who is devastated by loss, afraid of deep water, pursued for a tangled conspiracy which he cannot understand and looking forward to a death that he cannot reconcile with God. Stella Maris tells the tale of a twenty-year-old mathematician, who is taken into hospital with forty thousand dollars stashed in a plastic bag and just one request: she doesn't want to discuss her brother.

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland.