Results for "Abbott, Megan"

An NPR Best Book of the YearBy the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game.Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That’s what Jacy’s mom always ... Read More about Beware the Woman

An NPR Best Book of the YearBy the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game.Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That’s what Jacy’s mom always ... Read More about Beware the Woman

"Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic. It’s ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ in ballet shoes." —Stephen KingBest Book of the YearNPR • Wall Street Journal • Boston Globe • Library Journal • CrimeReads • LitReactor • Air MailLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A TODAY Sh... Read More about The Turnout

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele.  To his mind nothing... Read More about In a Lonely Place

"Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic. It’s ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ in ballet shoes." —Stephen KingBest Book of the YearNPR • Wall Street Journal • Boston Globe • Library Journal • CrimeReads • LitReactor • Air MailLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A TODAY Sh... Read More about The Turnout

A life-changing secret destroys an unlikely friendship in this "magnetic" psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Turnout (Meg Wolitzer).You told each other everything. Then she told you too much.Kit has risen to the top of her profession and is on the... Read More about Give Me Your Hand