An astronaut who discovers that Mission Control communications have gone silent and an aging scientist at a remote Arctic outpost who stays behind after an evacuation order are haunted by love, memory and regret as the world confronts an uncertain future.
By Weike Wang
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she’s encountered before.
The housekeeper for archaeologist Max Mallowan and his famous wife, Agatha Christie, former Army nurse Phyllida Bright is faced with murder and mayhem during a weekend party and assembles the household staff to find the killer among the Mallowan's.