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"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...

"One of Esquire's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 Breathtakingly imaginative and unapologetically original, The World Doesn't Require You announces a bold, generational talent. Deftly spinning genres of his feverish literary invention, Rion Amilcar Scott creates his very own Yoknapatawpha County with fictional Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of America's only successful slave revolt, the town still evokes the fierce rhythms of its...

"All Clara Davenport has ever wanted to do is climb the ladder at Davenport Innovation Creative, her family's toy business. Everything was going according to plan, until the company was accused of stealing a doll design from an independent toy maker, creating a flurry of bad publicity. With a promotion dangled in front of her like a carrot to a reindeer, Clara is tasked with charming the locals of the small town to solve the PR nightmare, by any means...

"Marlow Heddings rebuilds her life in small-town Kentucky, finding unexpected friendship with Pixie, the young woman tied to her husband's betrayal, and a chance at love with her landlord, Cort, as she forges new connections and a fulfilling future"-- Provided by publisher.

When a prominent member of the community id murdered, the list of suspected is longer than the lines during a free donut giveaway. Odd couple Suzanne and her stepfather, Phillip, dig into the case together to unmask the killer, and in the course of their investigation, the two amateur sleuths become embroiled in some of the worst aspects of small town life as they struggle to find the murderer.

Struggling to come to terms with the worshipped older brother who disappeared seven years earlier, fifteen-year-old Rocky is seduced by a wealthy older girl in the wake of a mysterious double murder that forces the town to confront past misdeeds.

"Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th Century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every...

"Jesse Hudson returns to her hometown of Canton, Missouri, to sell her father's old bar, hoping to leave her troubled past behind. Years ago, her stepmother and stepsister disappeared, and her father became a suspect before vanishing himself. But when she learns her stepmother was living under a false identity, Jesse uncovers dark secrets that link her father's disappearance to dangerous forces still haunting the town--and someone is determined to...

When a mysterious drifter arrives in a small town, he is soon met with suspicion and jealousy. Leaving as quickly as he came, the town realizes how one person's presence can make an impact.

"There is a village carved into the rock of the Maremma hinterland in Tuscany and its name is Le Case. A dying town. A provincial trap. A microcosm of characters who are as vivid as they are universal, their days unchanging and at times tedious. That is, until the small community is shocked by the arrival of Samuele Radi, born and raised in the heart of the old village, but lost long ago to the world beyond. His return is the trigger for this magnificently...