The great Gatsby —Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald show...

Lord of the flies —Golding, William, 1911-1993.

A group of boys, aged six to twelve, are marooned on a tropical island after a plane crash. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitiv...

Small game hunting at the local coward gun club —Coles, Megan Gail, 1981- author.

"February in Newfoundland is the longest month of the year. Another blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off downtown St. John's, while inside The Hazel restaurant a storm of sex, betrayal, addiction, and hurt is brea...

The stranger inside —Unger, Lisa, 1970- author.

'The Stranger Inside' is a dark psychological thriller about a woman forced to confront the dark secrets of her past when a serial killer strikes too close to home.

Elevator pitch : a novel —Barclay, Linwood, author.

"The New York Times bestselling author of A Noise Downstairs and No Time for Goodbye returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the beach--a heart-poun...

The dark side : a novel —Steel, Danielle, author.

"In her new novel, Danielle Steel tells a riveting story of the dark side of motherhood. Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness, watching as her parents dedicated themselves completely t...

The silent patient —Michaelides, Alex, 1977- author.

Alicia Berenson is a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, living in a posh area of London. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late. Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then nev...

The turn of the key —Ware, Ruth, author.

Rowan Caine stumbles across a lucrative job as a live-in nanny for a picture-perfect family in the Scottish Highlands. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare that will end with a child dead and her...

A spark of light —Picoult, Jodi, 1966- author.

The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunm...

Indian Horse : a novel —Wagamese, Richard, author.

"Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he's a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he's sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace,...

The great alone —Hannah, Kristin, author.

Someone we know —Lapeña, Shari, 1960- author.

In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well. Learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he ha...

The shape of night : a novel —Gerritsen, Tess, author.

"A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a quiet coastal town in Maine--and to a string of unsolved murders--in this haunting tale of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen."-- Prov...

A nearly normal family —Edvardsson, M. T., author.

Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady busin...

The wonder : a novel —Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author.

Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, 'The Wonder' - inspired by numerous cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child's murder. Pitting all the s...

Every breath —Sparks, Nicholas, author.

"Nicholas Sparks returns with his signature combination of gripping, emotionally resonant storytelling and love overcoming all odds"-- Provided by publisher.

The innocents : a novel —Crummey, Michael, 1965- author.

"A novel about an orphaned brother and sister who must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"-- Provided by publisher.

The nanny : a novel —Macmillan, Gilly, author.

When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo grew up bitter and distant, and eventually left her parents and Lake Hall, t...

Nine perfect strangers —Moriarty, Liane, author.

Five wives : a novel —Thomas, Joan (Sandra Joan), author.

"In 1956, a small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. The pla...