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For fans of Jojo Moyes and heart-hugging fiction.
We Are All Made of Stars
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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From Rowan Coleman comes We Are All Made of Stars, a deeply moving novel about love, loss, and letters that outlive us. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon and praise from Jodi Picoult and Good Housekeeping, this tender story celebrates second chances and the healing power of words. For fans of Jojo Moyes and heart-hugging fiction.
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Stella spends her nights at a hospice, helping the dying say goodbye in letters meant to be mailed only after they've passed. It’s quiet work, tender and sacred, until one letter threatens to break the rules and upend everything.
Grace has a confession. A son she abandoned. A truth she wants him to hear while she’s still breathing. If Stella sends it now, she risks her job, the rules, and maybe fate itself.
At home, her marriage is fraying. Her husband came back from war haunted and silent, and Stella is running out of ways to reach him.
But as grief, hope, and forgiveness collide, Stella begins to understand the power of the written word and the strength it takes to live without regret.
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Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, returns with After Alice, a haunting reimagining of Wonderland told through the eyes of Alice’s forgotten friend.
After Alice
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, returns with After Alice, a haunting reimagining of Wonderland told through the eyes of Alice’s forgotten friend. With 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this philosophical twist on the classic tale explores loss, logic, and the surreal in lush, literary prose. Wonderland just got even stranger.
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Alice fell first, but she wasn’t the only one.
When Ada arrives to visit her eccentric friend, she’s just in time to miss the chaos. One wrong step later, and she’s tumbling down the same rabbit-hole into a Wonderland that’s less charming whimsy, more metaphysical fever dream.
In this surreal, sideways sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Gregory Maguire reimagines the story not through Alice’s eyes, but Ada’s. Prim, awkward, and slightly asthmatic, Ada isn’t built for Wonderland’s logic-defying nonsense, but she’s determined to bring Alice back.
Back in Victorian Oxford, whispers swirl, decorum frays, and grown-ups scramble to explain the inexplicable.
What if Wonderland isn’t just nonsense and riddles? What if it’s a mirror? And what if both girls are changed for good, whether they escape or not?
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With a 4.4-star rating from more than 10,500 Amazon reviewers, this is a strong fit for readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about identity, marriage, parenthood, LGBTQ+ rights,…
Sing You Home
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Sing You Home follows Zoe Baxter, a music therapist rebuilding after personal tragedy, as an unexpected friendship becomes love and her hope for a family faces painful opposition. With a 4.4-star rating from more than 10,500 Amazon reviewers, this is a strong fit for readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about identity, marriage, parenthood, LGBTQ+ rights, and chosen family.
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From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author whom USA TODAY calls a “master of the page-turner,” comes the spectacular story of a woman’s complex quest to form a family in this moving novel about love, marriage, identity, and parenthood.
Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen.
Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people—even those she loves and trusts most—don’t want that to happen.
Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. It’s about fertility, LGBTQ+ rights, same-sex marriage, and people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family.
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Best for readers who like emotional second-chance romance, childhood friends, unresolved heartbreak, and complicated reunions.
Love and Other Lost Things
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Jane and Nik were inseparable childhood friends until their first kiss became tied to a painful turning point that drove them apart. When they are brought back together years later, they must confront the secrets and broken trust between them, with a 4.1-star average from more than 3,200 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like emotional second-chance romance, childhood friends, unresolved heartbreak, and complicated reunions.
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Jane and Nik were inseparable—until one kiss shattered everything.
In high school, they dreamed of forever. But when a devastating family secret forced Jane to choose between truth and protection, she vanished—breaking Nik’s heart without a word.
Ten years later, Jane returns home. Nik is a doctor now, still carrying the ghost of the girl who left. And Jane? She’s haunted by bruises she hides and the lie she’s lived with ever since.
One glance reignites everything between them. But the truth still threatens to destroy them both.
As secrets unravel and the past resurfaces, Jane must decide if love is worth risking again—or if some hearts stay broken forever.
A breathtaking, emotionally raw story of first love, hard choices, and the pain of what might have been.
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary coming-of-age stories about grief, family, unlikely friendship, and the AIDS era.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “a dazzling debut novel” by O: The Oprah Magazine, Tell the Wolves I'm Home follows fourteen-year-old June Elbus after the death of her beloved uncle Finn, when an unexpected friendship changes how she understands her grief and family, with a 4.02-star average from more than 151,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to literary coming-of-age stories about grief, family, unlikely friendship, and the AIDS era.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt story of love, grief, and renewal about two unlikely friends who discover that sometimes you don’t know you’ve lost someone until you’ve found them
“A dazzling debut novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Tremendously moving.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Touching and ultimately hopeful.”—People
1987. The only person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can be herself only in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June’s world is turned upside down.
But Finn’s death brings a surprise acquaintance into June’s life. At the funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail containing a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn’s apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she’s not the only one who misses Finn, and that this unexpected friend just might be the one she needs the most.
WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal
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From The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho comes By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, a tender and poetic tale of lost love rediscovered.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction
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From The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho comes By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, a tender and poetic tale of lost love rediscovered. Set in the French Pyrenees, this soul-searching novel explores forgiveness, faith, and emotional rebirth. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, it's a profound reflection on the power of second chances.
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Eleven years ago, Pilar and her childhood love walked away from each other—he to seek spiritual enlightenment, she to bury her feelings and build a life of quiet independence. Now, fate brings them together once more.
He is a charismatic spiritual leader. She is a woman who no longer believes in miracles. But as they journey through the snow-covered landscapes of the French Pyrenees, old emotions resurface—along with pain, regret, and the possibility of redemption.
By the banks of the River Piedra, they must confront the choices that shaped their lives and the love that never truly died.
A lyrical meditation on love, forgiveness, and the divine, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept is classic Paulo Coelho—spiritual, soulful, and deeply human.
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A good pick for readers who like medical dramas centered on professional pressure, guilt, family responsibility, and difficult choices.
Oxygen
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Dr. Marie Heaton’s career as a Seattle anesthesiologist begins to unravel after a routine surgery becomes a devastating operating room disaster. As a malpractice suit, workplace betrayals, and her father’s declining health close in, Marie is forced to confront the cost of the life she’s built, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 2,600 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like medical dramas centered on professional pressure, guilt, family responsibility, and difficult choices.
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Jodi Picoult meets Atul Gawande in this gripping medical drama that plunges readers into the hidden pressures of the operating room and the emotional fallout of failure, guilt, and ambition from the bestselling author of Gemini and Healer.
Dr. Marie Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height of her profession. She has worked, lived, and breathed her career since medical school, and she now practices at a top Seattle hospital. Marie has carefully constructed and constricted her life according to empirical truths, to the science and art of medicine. But when her tried-and-true formula suddenly deserts her during a routine surgery, she must explain the nightmarish operating room disaster and face the resulting malpractice suit. Marie’s best friend, colleague, and former lover, Dr. Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidante as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the patient in question. As she struggles to salvage her career and reputation, Marie must face hard truths about the path she’s chosen, the bridges she’s burned, and the colleagues and superiors she’s mistaken for friends.
A quieter crisis is simultaneously unfolding within Marie’s family. Her aging father is losing his sight and approaching an awkward dependency on Marie and her sister, Lori. But Lori has taken a more traditional path than Marie and is busy raising a family. Although Marie has been estranged from her Texas roots for decades, the ultimate responsibility for their father’s care is falling on her.
As her carefully structured life begins to collapse, Marie confronts questions of love and betrayal, family bonds and the price of her own choices. Set against the natural splendor of Seattle, and inside the closed vaults of hospital operating rooms, Oxygen climaxes in a final twist that is as heartrending as it is redeeming.
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In flood-soaked Florence, a young American book conservator uncovers a forbidden erotic manuscript and begins a passionate affair with a married art restorer.
The Sixteen Pleasures
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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In flood-soaked Florence, a young American book conservator uncovers a forbidden erotic manuscript and begins a passionate affair with a married art restorer. Sensual, literate, and layered with history, this acclaimed literary romance—called “elegantly moving” by The New Yorker—blends art, desire, and defiance in unforgettable measure. A must-read for lovers of Call Me by Your Name and Possession.
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Florence, with its crumbling frescoes and secretive charm, is a city of passion—and preservation.
Margot Harrington, a 29-year-old American book conservator, has come to restore a convent’s flood-damaged library. But when she uncovers a rare 16th-century erotic manuscript—banned by the Vatican and long thought destroyed—she’s pulled into a delicate scheme: sell it to save the convent, without alerting the bishop.
At the same time, Margot becomes entangled with a married art historian working to preserve Italy’s vanishing masterpieces. Their bond, both intellectual and illicit, deepens into a sensual awakening that blurs the line between sacred and profane.
Set against the richly textured backdrop of Florence, this “elegantly moving” novel (New Yorker) explores art, desire, and the quiet rebellion of a woman daring to live for both.
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From acclaimed author Lydia Millet comes a darkly funny, deeply poignant tale of a real estate developer unraveling in a world obsessed with extinction and progress.
How the Dead Dream
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction
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From acclaimed author Lydia Millet comes a darkly funny, deeply poignant tale of a real estate developer unraveling in a world obsessed with extinction and progress. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this satirical gem balances biting commentary with emotional depth as one man’s perfectly ordered life descends into chaos, conservation, and a surreal quest for meaning.
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T. is a rising star in Los Angeles real estate—wealthy, ambitious, and always in control. Until he isn’t.
When his eccentric mother reappears after being abandoned by his newly-out father, T.'s tightly managed world begins to unravel. A suicide attempt, two sudden deaths, and a growing disillusionment with his newest project—a retirement community in the desert—leave him increasingly untethered.
Haunted by ecological collapse and personal guilt, T. develops an obsession with endangered animals, sneaking into zoos at night and questioning everything he’s built. His descent leads him far from the California sprawl and deep into a jungle river, where extinction, corruption, and redemption converge.
With sharp wit and aching humanity, Lydia Millet delivers a biting, surreal exploration of ambition, grief, and a world on the brink.
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Set in a 1970s logging town on the California coast, Damnation Spring is a powerful, compassionate novel about a family caught between environmental truth and economic survival.
Damnation Spring
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Set in a 1970s logging town on the California coast, Damnation Spring is a powerful, compassionate novel about a family caught between environmental truth and economic survival. A national bestseller named one of the best books of 2021, Ash Davidson’s debut is a searing, unforgettable portrait of love, loss, and resilience in the face of change.
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In a 1970s logging town carved into California’s redwood coast, Colleen and Rich Gundersen are trying to hold onto hope.
Rich, a third-generation tree-topper, makes a bold gamble on a plot of old-growth forest—an inheritance for their young son, Chub. But Colleen, a midwife haunted by miscarriages, suspects the herbicides used by the logging company are poisoning their land—and their bodies.
As environmental suspicion collides with tradition, and a town built on timber begins to fracture, Colleen and Rich are drawn into a quiet war that could cost them everything they’re fighting to preserve.
Damnation Spring is a masterfully told, emotionally resonant portrait of marriage, motherhood, and a community on the brink. A national bestseller and critical favorite, it’s a novel as enduring as the redwoods themselves.
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Willa Knox’s modern family faces financial ruin, while 19th-century science teacher Thatcher Greenwood battles to share Darwin’s truths.
Unsheltered
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Willa Knox’s modern family faces financial ruin, while 19th-century science teacher Thatcher Greenwood battles to share Darwin’s truths. Separated by time but connected by collapsing homes and relentless struggles, their stories mirror a quest for survival against forces determined to silence and suppress. Can their courage reshape their lives—or will it crumble like the walls around them?
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Willa Knox and her husband did everything right—built careers, raised a family, followed the rules. Yet, they’re left with crushing debt, a crumbling inherited home, and the weight of supporting a multigenerational household. When tragedy strikes their Ivy-educated son, the burden grows heavier.
Meanwhile, in another century, science teacher Thatcher Greenwood risks everything to speak the truth about Darwin’s discoveries. Silenced by his employer and shunned by his family, Thatcher battles a town built on false utopia while his crumbling home becomes a stark symbol of fragile ideals.
Separated by time but connected by parallel struggles, Willa and Thatcher must fight for truth, survival, and their right to hope. Will their resilience be enough to withstand the collapse of the worlds they know?
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A kleptomaniac, a yarn-bomber, and a woman with a decades-old secret walk into a senior center...
How to Age Disgracefully
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A kleptomaniac, a yarn-bomber, and a woman with a decades-old secret walk into a senior center... and chaos ensues. How to Age Disgracefully by NYT bestseller Clare Pooley is a laugh-out-loud caper full of charm, found family, and rebellion at every age. With 4.7 stars on Amazon, it’s the feel-good comedy your TBR needs. Click now to join the riot.
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“An uproarious romp!” —People
“Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age.” —Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times-bestselling author Clare Pooley
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.
The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.
When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.
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