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On a night of a thousand stars

When Paloma and her family travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for her father Santiago's UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma decides to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. But everything changes when she meets Franco Bonetti, an activist member of H.I.J.O.S., a group whose members are the children of men and women who were forcibly disappeared by the state during Argentina's "Dirty War." Franco agrees to help Paloma, but as she digs into her father's past, she begins to wonder if the truth will come at much too high a cost.

Long bright river

In a Philadelphia neighborhood, a young woman named Kacey struggles with addiction, while her sister Mickey works as a cop. The two don't speak and the police department doesn't know they are related. However, when Kacey disappears, Mickey panics and risks her job, and the welfare of her young son, to find Kacey before it's too late.

Lock the doors

When Tom's family moves into a new home, he finds evidence of locks on the outside of his bedroom door and a message hidden under the wallpaper. The previous owners move in across the street and Tom strikes up a friendship with their daughter, Amy, to find out what happened in the house. He slowly begins to piece together the dark secret that Amy and her family are hiding, a secret they will do anything to keep hidden.

Always the first to die

When she was twenty-five years old, Lexi Kennedy starred in a horror film shot by famous director Rick Plummer at his estate in the Florida Keys. After several cast members died during the filming, Lexi was left permanently traumatized and the film exploded in popularity. Lexi eventually married Cam, Rick's son, whom she met on set, but he went missing a year ago and Lexi blames his presumed death on Rick. When she hears Rick is going to be filming a sequel to the film, she forbids her daughter Quinn, seventeen, to join the cast. However, as a category-four hurricane bears down on the Keys, Quinn runs away anyway to join the movie and Lexi follows, knowing danger awaits her on the set.

The hunting party

a novel
A group of Oxford graduates in their thirties, continuing a tradition they began ten years ago, meet for Christmas break at an isolated, beautiful estate in the Scottish Highlands. A historic blizzard seals off their lodge from the world, and two days later one of the classmates is dead--and one of the other ones did it. Secret resentments come to light and the cord holding the friends together snaps.

The alchemist

The shepherd, Santiago, travels the world in search of a wonderous treasure when he encounters an Egyptian alchemist who teaches him to listen to his dreams.

The great Gatsby

Follows the adventures of Jay Gatsby as he tries to win back the woman he loved and lost.

Lock every door

a novel
Jules Larsen takes an unusual apartment-sitting job at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's highest-profile and most mysterious buildings. Jules soon discovers that the building holds many secrets when a fellow housesitter disappears.

Pasadena

When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.

A land remembered

Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.

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