Beth Lewis
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Welcome to Atlas. What would you do for a second chance? Summer, 1982. Deep in the Adirondack Mountains, over three hundred people live off-grid in a secret community. Atlas is a refuge for broken souls who long for a different life. Founded by the enigmatic Sol, the group now prepares for their final ceremony - the opening of the Golden Door. They believe they will cross to another world, to a new life where their past decisions never ended in tragedy....
2) Bitter sun
Author
Publisher
The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2018
Description
'The Dry' meets 'Stand by Me' and 'True Detective' in this tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by a lake and set out to solve a murder. But they dig too deep and ask too many questions. Larson is a town reeling in the wake of the Vietnam draft, where the unrelenting heat ruins the harvest, and the people teeter on the edge of ruin. As...
Author
Publisher
Hodder Studio
Pub. Date
2021
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Description
Iris flees New York City, and her abusive wife Claude, for the Catskill Mountains. When she was a child, Iris and her father found solace in the beauty and wilderness of the forest; now, years later, Iris has returned for time and space to clear her head, and to come to terms with the mistakes that have led her here. But what Iris doesn't expect in her journey of survival and self-discovery is to find herself - literally. Trapped in a neglected cabin...