Innocence

Foraging for supplies by night in a beautiful but hostile urban world where strangers would kill him on sight, Addison e... (more)

Foraging for supplies by night in a beautiful but hostile urban world where strangers would kill him on sight, Addison endures a solitary existence before meeting a quicksilver girl engaged in a dangerous duel of wits with a malicious, well-placed enemy. (less)

Foraging for supplies by night in a beautiful but hostile urban world where strangers would kill him on sight, Addison e... (more)

Foraging for supplies by night in a beautiful but hostile urban world where strangers would kill him on sight, Addison endures a solitary existence before meeting a quicksilver girl engaged in a dangerous duel of wits with a malicious, well-placed enemy. (less)

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"In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fi... (more)

"In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller-cum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently committed, Innocence follows the unfolding of the investigation while telling the stories of the women who work there as ushers, each of whom is forced to support herself in difficult circumstances. As the novel brings this group alive, it tells their various life stories that have brought them to this job, the secrets they share with one another, and the secrets they keep. When the detective trying to solve the first murder is found slain by the cinema, all of their secrets come into the light"-- (less)

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"He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from a world that will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in se... (more)

"He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from a world that will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance, and nothing less than destiny, has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching." -- (less)

Sixteen year-old Beckett Warner moves to Manhattan with her father after her mother's untimely passing. She meets handso... (more)

Sixteen year-old Beckett Warner moves to Manhattan with her father after her mother's untimely passing. She meets handsome Tobey Crawford and attends the exclusive Hamilton School. Everything seems normal until Beckett discovers that a coven of seductive women use the school as a cover for their very own fountain of youth. (less)

Girls arrive by coffin to a mysterious boarding school. There, they live in a regimented universe of botany classes, bal... (more)

Girls arrive by coffin to a mysterious boarding school. There, they live in a regimented universe of botany classes, ballet and playtime. Tells of the journey that goes from girlhood to womanhood and its dangers and perils. (less)

Haunted by the death and dreams of her beloved mother in a Montauk surfing accident, 16-year-old Beckett and her father,... (more)

Haunted by the death and dreams of her beloved mother in a Montauk surfing accident, 16-year-old Beckett and her father, novelist Miles Warner, move to Manhattan and attempt to piece together their shattered life. Now enrolled at the exclusive Hamilton preparatory school, her psychosis and hallucinations intensify with the dubious suicides of current and past students, as does her first love for Tobey Crawford. (less)