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After her mom, Iris, dies suddenly, Maggie fulfills a request from Iris' will to send five sealed letters, all addressed to men Maggie's never heard of. Exhausted after the funeral, she makes the snap decision to escape her younger brother and her dad, who's nearly comatose in his grief, and deliver the letters in person. Unfolding in California and Las Vegas over the week of Iris' shiva, Masad's debut is Maggie's journey to meet these men, each one...

Gomorrah: The Series is the worldwide gangster show phenomenon from Stefano Sollima (Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, Romanzo Criminale), which is based on Roberto Saviano's best-selling book and the subsequent award-winning film of the same name. Season One tells the inside story of the fierce Neapolitan crime organization the Camorra. It is shown through the eyes of Ciro, the obedient and self-confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro...

Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent,...

In the first book of C.S. Lewis's legendary science fiction trilogy, Dr. Ransom is kidnapped and spirited by spaceship to the mysterious red planet of Malacandra. He escapes and goes on the run, jeopardizing both his chances of ever returning to Earth and his very life. First published in 1943, this classic interplanetary fantasy continues to delight readers around the world. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World...

In the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh, Detective Matilda Stone investigates crimes with the aid or, often, meddling of her three mystery-writing aunts, who raised her from childhood. Together, they look into a murder at a health spa, a killing in the contemporary art world, and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. Matilda has decidedly less success with her personal affairs, continuing to pine for Dr. Daniel Lynch even as she begins...

Begins with Tariq St. Patrick still running from a legacy that haunts him. Forced into the choice to take the life of his professor, Jabari Reynolds, Tariq finds himself drifting further from that which he has been fighting to protect: his family.

"Contains strong language and sexual situations"--Container. "Mother and daughter Astrid ... and Audrey ... are lawyers specializing in family law who make the perilous decision to work together. Along with partner Sofia ... and assistant Roxanne ... they deal with clients from a divorcing couple fighting over their bulldog to an unusual case of online adultery. But their own personal lives are messy as their clients' cases. A busy mom, Audrey struggles...

Six years after surviving a deadly earthquake, Takuru Miyashiro leads his high school newspaper club in a murder investigation. A string of bizarre deaths is forming a hauntingly familiar pattern, much like an incident that plagued the city years ago. Before long, he and his friends land squarely in the killer's crosshairs.

"On board the world's finest luxury cruise ship, the days are filled with sunshine, cocktails, and incredible new places to explore. Unless you are employed as the ship's detective, that is. That job falls to a lady called Patricia Fisher, a whip-smart sleuth whose special skills include attracting trouble, getting shot at, and running away screaming. So, when a mysterious stowaway is found murdered in the bowels of the ship, it falls firmly into...

"Claudio es un promotor musical que vive con la frustración de saber que podría haber hecho algo más con su vida. Un buen día, Claudio decide levanter su carrera, trayendo nada más y nada menos que a la gran banda irlandesa U2. Tras un encuentro desafortunado en un casino con Tony, un pistolero regiomontano, el gran negocio de Claudio de llevar esta banda a Monterrey se convierte en el único pase para salvar su vida y la de su novia Gloria en...