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Luckiest Girl Alive  is a 2015 New York Times Bestselling  mystery novel  written by American author Jessica Knoll and is her debut work. It was first published on May 12, 2015 through Simon & Schuster in the United States and Pan Macmillan in Australia, and is written in the first person narrative.   The work follows a young woman that has sought to reinvent herself in her adult life after a series of horrifying events her teen years. During the book the lead character, Ani Fanelli, is referred to by several different names, TifAni FaNelli, Tif, and Finny. In April 2015 Lions Gate announced that they had optioned the film rights to  Luckiest Girl Alive , with Reese Witherspoon's Pacific Standard set to produce.

A Spool of Blue Thread , published in 2015, is  Anne Tyler ’s 20th novel. A Spool of Blue Thread features a typical family settled for a couple of generations in a house built by their grandfather. While they appear to be happy and united to outsiders, cracks gradually develop in the unity of the family. As we probe even further, it is shown that the family never had the kind of background people thought. In short, appearances can be deceiving, and families find a way to work despite all the problems they face. The underlying message of the book is that families can be defined by their individual members, but also by all the joys, sorrows, quirkiness, and events that take place within them.   On April 13, 2015,  A Spool of Blue Thread  was one of six novels shortlisted for  Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction . The prize was established in 1996 for the best novel written in English by a woman of any nationality.  It was also shortlisted for the  2015...

Harry Bosch crosses the line to team up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller in the new thriller from #1  New York Times  best-selling author Michael Connelly. Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he h...

A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the  New York Times  bestseller  A Man Called Ove. Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry  is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman’s bestselling debut novel,...

The Sympathizer   is a first novel by Vietnamese American professor  Viet Thanh Nguyen .   Set as the flashback in a coerced confession of a political prisoner, the book tells the story of the fall of the South Vietnamese government in 1975, and subsequent events in American exile in Los Angeles, through the eyes of a half-Vietnamese undercover communist agent.   The novel is full of insights into history and human nature.   A Vietnamese reviewer noted that finally Americans have a chance to gain a new perspective on the war, one that is in contrast to the one provided by Hollywood myth makers. It is a best-selling novel,   has been widely reviewed,   and was named a  New York Times  Editor's Choice.   It has been reviewed twice in  The New York Times .   It was awarded the 2016  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . 

A Man Called Ove  (original title in  Swedish :  En man som heter Ove ) is a 2012 novel by Swedish columnist, blogger and writer  Fredrik Backman .  It was published in English in 2013. In January 2015 a stage version of the book with  Johan Rheborg  in the leading role as Ove had its premiere. Ove is a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” However, behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents’ associat...

Go Set a Watchman  is a novel by Harper Lee published on July 14, 2015, by HarperCollins in the United States and Willam Heinemann in the United Kingdom. Although written before her first and only other published novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning  To Kill a Mockingbird —and initially promoted by its publisher as a sequel—it is now more widely accepted as being a first draft of the famous novel. The title comes from Isaiah 21:6: "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." It alludes to Jean Louise Finch's view of her father, Atticus Finch, as the moral compass ("watchman") of Maycomb, and has a theme of disillusionment, as she discovers the extent of the bigotry in her home community. The book's unexpected and controversial discovery, decades after it was written, together with the exceptional eminence of the author's only other book—an American ...

Me Before You  is a romantic novel written by  Jojo Moyes . The book was first published on January 5, 2012 in the  United Kingdom . A sequel entitled  After You  was released 29 September 2015 through Pamela Dorman Books. Reception for  Me Before You  has been positive and the book was placed on the  Richard and Judy Book Club .  USA Today  and the  New York Times  both praised the work,   with the  New York Times  reviewer commenting that "When I finished this novel, I didn’t want to review it; I wanted to reread it."