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The Last Stars in the Sky begins with a family retreat that feels like a second chance, then turns into a survival story when the world collapses overnight.
The Last Stars in the Sky
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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The Last Stars in the Sky begins with a family retreat that feels like a second chance, then turns into a survival story when the world collapses overnight. At an isolated cottage on Lost Lake, one mother tries to protect her daughters while facing a broken marriage, a vanished normal life, and impossible choices. This is emotional apocalyptic fiction grounded in family, fear, and endurance.
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An unforgettable and heartbreaking story about one woman’s determination to keep her family together when the world falls apart.
“Mom, why are you so mad at Dad?”
“I’m not,” I say, which isn’t exactly true. Putting on a brave face for my two young daughters—pretending everything is fine in my marriage—has been hard. That, and losing the house after Daniel lied to me.
I never expected to have to uproot my family to go live in my parents’ isolated cottage on Lost Lake. It’s twenty miles to the nearest town, an insignificant speck in endless pine forests. Nobody’s lived here for a decade.
Now, I pick up a rusty pail from its nest of autumn leaves and turn to my daughter. Suddenly, I recall how I used to help my own mother pick wild strawberries up here as a little girl. Maybe, this isn’t a punishment. Maybe this place will be the making of our family.
Later, I’ll hold on to these memories—ghostly shreds of another life. Because just eight hours after I tucked my daughters into bed, feeling so hopeful, the world as I knew it—as anyone knew it—was gone for good.
What do you do when the worst thing in the world happens to your family? A gripping, beautiful story that will break your heart from a million-copy bestselling author. For fans of Boo Walker, Where the Forest Meets the Stars and Julianne MacLean.
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Eternal Life asks what immortality costs when love, grief, and family keep multiplying across centuries.
Eternal Life
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Eternal Life asks what immortality costs when love, grief, and family keep multiplying across centuries. Rachel has lived for 2,000 years after making a spiritual bargain in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, surviving marriages, children, loss, and the one man who refuses to let her go. This literary novel blends speculative premise with generational drama, faith, mortality, and the ache of wanting an ending.
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A New York Times Notable Book
A Booklist Editors' Choice
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
What would it really mean to live forever?
Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she's tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.
But as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren—consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering—develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out.
Gripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, Eternal Life celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive.
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A Family Affair follows a woman whose carefully managed life fractures after sudden loss reveals the secrets her marriage had been hiding.
A Family Affair
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A Family Affair follows a woman whose carefully managed life fractures after sudden loss reveals the secrets her marriage had been hiding. Anna must navigate grief, betrayal, her children’s pain, and her mother’s declining health while searching for answers she no longer knows how to find, making this a grounded women’s fiction drama about family, resilience, and rebuilding when certainty disappears.
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Life’s biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards
Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she’s worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn’t. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in "till death do us part." Now an empty nester, she’s at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future.
But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna’s carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth.
For once, she doesn’t have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her mother’s health is in decline and Anna needs closure. Faced with one challenge after another, she finds support from an unexpected source. And as she puts her life back together, Anna realizes the McNichols may not be perfect but they’ll always be family, and family is forever.
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A Golden Age turns a nation’s fight for independence into an intimate story of motherhood, fear, and impossible loyalty.
A Golden Age
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A Golden Age turns a nation’s fight for independence into an intimate story of motherhood, fear, and impossible loyalty. In 1971 Dhaka, widow Rehana Haque tries to protect her children as their political convictions pull them into the violence of Bangladesh’s liberation war. This fits readers looking for historical fiction shaped by family devotion, revolution, moral choice, and quiet acts of courage.
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A deeply moving debut novel about a mother's all-consuming love for her two children, set against the backdrop of war and terror.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book
Rehana Haque, a young widow transplanted to the city of Dhaka in East Pakistan, is fiercely devoted to her adolescent children, Maya and Sohail. Both become fervent nationalists in the violent political turmoil which, in 1971, transforms a brutal Pakistani civil war into a fight to the death for Bangladeshi independence. Fair-minded and intensely protective of her family, but not at all political, Rehana is sucked into the conflict in spite of herself.
A story of passion and revolution, of family, friendship and unexpected heroism, A Golden Age depicts the chaos of an era and the choices everyone—from student protesters to the country's leaders, and rickshaw wallahs to the army's soldiers—must make. Rehana herself will face a cruel dilemma; the choice she makes is at once heartbreaking and true to the character we have come to love and respect.
"Eventful, exotic, intelligent, and romantic." —Entertainment Weekly
"Spellbinding . . . . [Tahima] Anam has written a story about powerful events. But it is her descriptions of the small, unheralded moments . . . that truly touch the heart." —San Francisco Chronicle
"By painting that portrait of maternal love, both powerful and overpowering, against the backdrop of a young generation's love for a new country, Anam gives her story an extra layer of poignancy." —San Jose Mercury News
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I Believe in a Thing Called Love turns first love into a plan, then lets real feelings ruin the outline.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Teen + Young Adult · Literary Fiction · Romance · Asian Fiction · RomCom
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I Believe in a Thing Called Love turns first love into a plan, then lets real feelings ruin the outline. Desi Lee excels at almost everything except romance, so she borrows the logic of Korean dramas to win over brooding artist Luca Drakos. This YA romantic comedy blends family warmth, cultural specificity, and chaotic schemes into a story about learning that love does not follow a script.
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A Seventeen.com Best YA Books of 2017
A Publishers Weekly's Best YA Book of 2017
A New York Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens 2017
A 2018 CCBC Choices Book
"Hilarious." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Powerful messages of inclusion and acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Desi Lee believes anything is possible if you have a plan. That's how she became student body president. Varsity soccer star. And it's how she'll get into Stanford. But she's never had a boyfriend. In fact, she's a disaster at romance, a clumsy, stammering humiliation magnet whose botched attempts at flirting have become legendary with her friends. So when the hottest human specimen to have ever lived walks into her life one day, Desi finds guidance in the Korean dramas her father has been obsessively watching for years—where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten. It's a simple formula, and Desi is a quick study. Armed with her "K Drama Steps to True Love," Desi goes after the moody, elusive artist Luca Drakos—and boat rescues, love triangles, and staged car crashes ensue. But when the fun and games turn to true feels, Desi finds out that real love is about way more than just drama.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to political thrillers that combine newsroom drama, racial history, and election-night suspense.
Grant Park
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · People of Color
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Called “A novel as significant as it is engrossing” by Booklist, Grant Park moves between 1968 and the eve of the 2008 election as two Chicago newspapermen are drawn into a white supremacist plot and forced to confront choices made during the civil rights era, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to political thrillers that combine newsroom drama, racial history, and election-night suspense.
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Two Chicago newspapermen grapple with race and the past in this contemporary terrorist thriller by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freeman.
Disillusioned Chicago columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed Black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob
Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication.
While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint—while dealing with the reappearance of a lost love from his days as a '60s activist—Toussaint is abducted by two white supremacists plotting to bomb Barack Obama's planned rally in Grant Park. Toussaint and Carson are forced to reckon with the choices they made as young men, when both their lives were changed profoundly by their work in the civil rights movement . . .
Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories.
Praise for Grant Park
"A taut thriller that weaves together a stark look at America's tortured racial past with a fast-paced tale of terrorist conspiracy and love rekindled." —Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun Times
"A page-turner, but also one that commands deep reflection on history, racism, and personal choices." —Blanca Torres, The Seattle Times
"Layered, insightful, and passionate. Pitts's subtly explosive language grips readers with the delicate subject matter and earnestly implores them to understand that "[race] has always meant something and it always will." The scars will remain, but stunningly powerful examinations like Grant Park can be the salve that helps heal open wounds." —Shelf-Awareness, starred review
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A girl who has learned to appear fine begins to lose the fragile distance that keeps her grief contained.
How It Feels to Float
Teen + Young Adult · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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A girl who has learned to appear fine begins to lose the fragile distance that keeps her grief contained. In How It Feels to Float, Biz moves through friendships, family, first love, and the presence of a father who died years ago, until one night at the beach unravels her sense of control. This contemporary YA novel explores mental illness, loss, and the difficult search for a reason to stay.
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year
"Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away." —Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces
A stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice.
Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she doesn't tell anyone about her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface—normal okay regular fine.
But after what happens on the beach—first in the ocean, and then in the sand—the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Dad disappears and, with him, all comfort. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Or maybe—maybe maybe maybe—there's a third way Biz just can't see yet.
Debut author Helena Fox tells a story about love and grief, about inter-generational mental illness, and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and, also, a chasm. She explores the hard and beautiful places loss can take us, and honors those who hold us tightly when the current wants to tug us out to sea.
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Memory becomes a survival problem when a girl wakes with violent hunger and no understanding of what she is.
Fledgling
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction
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Memory becomes a survival problem when a girl wakes with violent hunger and no understanding of what she is. In Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler follows an amnesiac vampire forced to uncover her stolen past, her altered biology, and the enemies still hunting her. This speculative vampire novel examines identity, otherness, power, and humanity through a story shaped by danger and discovery.
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Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
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This will appeal to readers who want YA contemporary fiction about mental health, identity, friendship, and finding a place to belong.
Every Last Word
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Contemporary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller, Every Last Word follows Samantha McAllister, a popular girl hiding Purely-Obsessional OCD, toxic friendships, and weekly psychiatrist visits until a new friend introduces her to a secret poetry room and a group of misfits, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 5,500 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want YA contemporary fiction about mental health, identity, friendship, and finding a place to belong.
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The New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about.
If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.
Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off.
Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist.
Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.
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A family’s search for love and belonging unfolds against a country breaking under war, occupation, and political upheaval.
Miss Burma
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
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A family’s search for love and belonging unfolds against a country breaking under war, occupation, and political upheaval. In Miss Burma, Benny and Khin build a life shaped by exile and resistance, while their daughter Louisa rises to national fame as Burma edges toward dictatorship. Expansive and intimate, this historical novel traces identity, loyalty, and the personal cost of a nation’s fight for self-determination.
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"Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss." —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country's history.
Years later, Benny and Khin's eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma's first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family's past, the West's ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people.
Based on the story of the author's mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.
"At once beautiful and heartbreaking . . . An incredible family saga." —Refinery29
"Miss Burma charts both a political history and a deeply personal one—and of those incendiary moments when private and public motivations overlap." —Los Angeles Times
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A child with no voice and a past that defies time draws strangers together across the vast distances of space.
The Vanished Birds
Sci-Fi · Literary Fiction · Space Opera · Speculative Fiction
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A child with no voice and a past that defies time draws strangers together across the vast distances of space. In The Vanished Birds, a ship captain, a solitary woman, and a mysterious boy form a fragile family shaped by loss and longing. This is a reflective science fiction novel that blends space opera with intimate emotion, exploring connection, memory, and the cost of progress.
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A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” (Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives” (Kirkus Reviews, Best Debut Fiction and Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year).
FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TORDOTCOM AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever.
I expected many things from this trip. I did not expect a family.
A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning.
But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
Praise for The Vanished Birds
“This is the most impressive debut of 2020.”—Locus
“This extraordinary science fiction epic, which delves deep into the perils of failing to learn from one’s mistakes, is perfect for fans of big ideas and intimate reflections.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A lyrical and moving narrative of space travel, found families, and lost loves set against an evocative space-opera background.”—Booklist (starred review)
“The Vanished Birds finds an intimate heartbeat of longing in a saga of galactic progress and its crushing fallout. . . . A novel of vast scope that yet makes time for compassion, wonder, and poetry.”—Indra Das, author of The Devourers
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A boy shut out from the destiny he longs for risks everything to claim a place in a world that says he does not belong.
Breath of the Dragon
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Asian Fiction
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A boy shut out from the destiny he longs for risks everything to claim a place in a world that says he does not belong. In Breath of the Dragon, Jun enters an elite tournament despite his father’s warnings and his lack of the dragon-gifted mark that defines true warriors. It fits readers looking for YA fantasy with martial competition, family wounds, and high stakes tied to honor and fate.
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The instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller!
A young warrior dreams of proving his worth in the elite Guardian Tournament, fighting not only for himself but the fate of everything he loves.
Sixteen-year-old Jun dreams of proving his worth as a warrior in the elite Guardian’s Tournament, held every six years to entrust the magical Scroll of Heaven to a new protector. Eager to prove his skills, Jun hopes that a win will restore his father’s pride—righting a horrible mistake that caused their banishment from his home, mother, and twin brother.
But Jun’s father strictly forbids him from participating. He believes there is no future in Jun honing his skills as a warrior, especially considering Jun is not breathmarked, born with a patch of dragon scales and blessed with special abilities like his twin. Determined to be the next Guardian, Jun stows away in the wagon of Chang and his daughter, Ren, performers on their way to the capital where the tournament will take place.
As Jun competes, he quickly realizes he may be fighting for not just a better life, but the fate of the country itself and the very survival of everyone he cares about.
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