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A boy who escapes Nazi Germany carries grief, rage, and the weight of those left behind into a war that will ask him to confront all of it.
That Such Men Lived
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A boy who escapes Nazi Germany carries grief, rage, and the weight of those left behind into a war that will ask him to confront all of it. In That Such Men Lived, Johannes is transformed from a hunted teenager into a soldier trained to help dismantle the regime that shattered his life. This World War II novel centers sacrifice, identity, and hard-won hope under impossible pressure.
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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived."
—General George S. Patton
Seventeen-year-old Johannes Schmitt can do nothing but watch as the Gestapo murders his father in his own home.
Forced to flee Germany, Johannes is torn from the girl he loves and the mother he swore to protect, boarding a ship to America with nothing but a suitcase, a broken Star of David, and the weight of survivor’s guilt. He arrives alone, enraged, and powerless to help those he loves.
That is, until he’s finally drafted into the US Army.
From there, Johannes is sent to the most unlikely of places: the top-secret Camp Ritchie, where he and fellow Jewish immigrants learn advanced interrogation techniques and German order of battle, strategies that promise to change the tides of the war. From the burning streets of Briedheim to the secretive Camp Ritchie to the very walls of Hitler’s Fortress Europe, Johannes must navigate a journey haunted by the past as he tries to keep his honor intact.
In this evocative retelling of the real-life German-born Jewish immigrants known as the Ritchie Boys, That Such Men Live is a gritty and emotional story of sacrifice, war, and maintaining hope when all seems lost.
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It fits crime thriller readers who want a damaged investigator, coastal atmosphere, and a case shaped by both violence and personal trauma.
The Lines
Mystery · Police Procedural
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The sea offers no peace when a murder drags an already haunted detective back into danger. In The Lines, DS Liam Kilshaw returns to a rugged Cornish community where bodies, gang ties, and local suspicion keep tightening the pressure. It fits crime thriller readers who want a damaged investigator, coastal atmosphere, and a case shaped by both violence and personal trauma.
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Once you cross the wrong lines, there’s no turning back.
For DS Liam Kilshaw, a former marine who almost died on a mission gone wrong, returning to the sea was meant to help combat his PTSD. But when he’s called out with the lifeboat crew off the rugged Cornish coast at night, the dark danger of the waves comes crashing back. The body of a young man is floating in the water, and the zip-tie marks on his wrists show this is no tragic drowning—it’s murder.
It’s not the first suspicious death to shock the tight-knit community: the identical discovery of a young woman with connections to a county lines drugs gang leads Kilshaw to suspect the killings must be linked. But as the brooding Cornish coast and whispered local rumours fold darkly around him, he starts to feel he can’t trust the water or anyone in town.
As the bodies keep coming, he must confront a sinister gangland underworld as well as his own demons—before tragedy strikes even closer to home.
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It fits thriller readers who want buried identities, dangerous alliances, and a steady sense that the truth keeps getting darker.
An Ambush of Widows
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Two widows are pulled together by violence, suspicion, and the secrets their husbands left behind. In An Ambush of Widows, Jeff Abbott builds a sharp psychological suspense novel around grief, deception, and shifting trust as Kirsten and Flora investigate deaths that make them targets too. It fits thriller readers who want buried identities, dangerous alliances, and a steady sense that the truth keeps getting darker.
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In New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott’s latest novel of riveting psychological suspense, an uneasy alliance forms as two widows delve into their husbands’ deadly and dangerous secrets—as they try to protect their own.
Henry North is a down-on-his-luck cybersecurity expert from New Orleans. Adam Zhang is the cofounder of one of Austin’s most successful venture capitalist firms. These two men didn’t know each other. They had never met. Yet they died together, violently, in a place neither had any business being.
When Henry doesn’t return from a business trip, his wife, Kirsten, panics—and then gets an anonymous phone call: “Your husband is dead in Austin.”
Flora Zhang knew her husband was keeping secrets. She suspected an affair, but she had decided she could forgive him for his weakness—until her husband ended up dead. And with no explanation for her husband’s murder, the police begin to suspect her.
Together, these two widows will face a powerful foe determined to write a false narrative about the murders. In doing so, neither Flora nor Kirsten will remain the women the world thought they were.
An uneasy alliance forms as the two widows delve into their husbands' deadly and dangerous secrets—as they try to protect their own. Together they will face a powerful foe determined to write a false narrative about the murders. In doing so, neither Flora nor Kirsten will remain the woman the world thought they were.
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The Chelsea Hotel becomes a place where grief, addiction, and the supernatural blur into something far more unstable.
Chelsea Horror Hotel
Horror
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The Chelsea Hotel becomes a place where grief, addiction, and the supernatural blur into something far more unstable. In Chelsea Horror Hotel, Dee Dee Ramone turns a haunted Manhattan landmark into a punk-gothic descent filled with ghosts, self-destruction, and mounting dread. It fits horror with a surreal, gritty edge and a voice shaped by chaos, decay, and the nearness of the dead.
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The punk rocker, his wife, and their dog move into a haunted Manhattan hotel in this "darkly witty, macabre" novel (Scanner Zine).
"The screaming voice of a punk Lovecraft." —Joe Dante, from the Foreword
Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. The room he's staying in might be the very room where his old friend Sid stabbed Nancy. Dee Dee spends most of his time trying to score drugs and walking Banfield, with whom he can magically communicate.
Meanwhile, he can't stand his neighbors and though he shies away from violence, he wishes everyone were six feet under. Dee Dee gets involved with the transvestite lover of one of his gay fellow addicts. When Barbara finds out, things get out of hand. All the while Dee Dee is tormented by the living and dead demons that plague the hotel, along with the ghosts of his old dead punk rock friends Sid Vicious, Johnny Thunders, and Stiv Bators. And that's when the Devil himself decides to join the party . . .
"Dee Dee Ramone was the essence of rock 'n' roll, infantile and cute and crazy, and driven. He was also a supreme songwriter. He's immortal." —Richard Hell, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
"I love Dee Dee Ramone. What a sense of humor! His acute ironic views made his lyrics for the Ramones characteristic of the band's huge success around the world, from then right through to today." —Debbie Harry
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Wonder and ruin travel together as humanity carries its oldest habits to a new world.
The Martian Chronicles
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Wonder and ruin travel together as humanity carries its oldest habits to a new world. In The Martian Chronicles, linked stories trace Earth’s settlement of Mars through encounters shaped by longing, conquest, memory, and loss. Bradbury blends literary science fiction with haunting atmosphere and quiet emotional force, creating a vision of colonization that feels both mythic and deeply human.
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Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger.
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.
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Closeness becomes its own kind of pressure when attraction keeps getting tangled with fear and restraint.
Season’s Change
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Closeness becomes its own kind of pressure when attraction keeps getting tangled with fear and restraint. In Season’s Change, a veteran player trying to rebuild his career is forced into constant proximity with the upbeat rookie roommate he cannot stop wanting. This hockey romance pairs grumpy-sunshine chemistry with emotional vulnerability, slow-burn tension, and a relationship that asks both men to rethink what comes next.
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"This is hockey romance for hockey fans." --Rachel Reid, author of the Game Changers series
A veteran hockey player and a rookie can't get away from each other—or their own desires—in this sexy, heartfelt opposites-attract hockey romance.
Olly Järvinen has a long way to go. He’s got a fresh start playing for a new team, but getting his hockey career back on track is going to take more than a change of scenery. He’s got to shut his past out and focus. On the game, not on his rookie roommate and his annoyingly sunny disposition—and annoyingly distracting good looks.
All Benji Bryzinski ever wanted was to play in the big leagues, and he’s not going to waste one single second of his rookie season. Yoga, kale smoothies and guided meditation help keep his head in the game. But his roommate keeps knocking him off track. Maybe it’s just that Olly is a grumpy bastard. Or maybe it’s something else, something Benji doesn’t have a name for yet.
Olly and Benji spend all their time together—on the ice, in the locker room, in their apartment—and ignoring their unspoken feelings isn’t making them go away. Acting on attraction is one thing, but turning a season’s fling into forever would mean facing the past—and redefining the future.
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Belonging does not come easily when family, culture, and ambition keep pulling in different directions.
We Were Dreamers
Biographies & Memoirs
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Belonging does not come easily when family, culture, and ambition keep pulling in different directions. In We Were Dreamers, Simu Liu traces his path from childhood in China to life in Canada and, eventually, to Hollywood, while reckoning with immigrant expectations, personal failure, and the search for identity. This memoir blends humor and honesty with a moving portrait of reinvention, reconciliation, and choosing a life that feels fully your own.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant in a candid celebrity memoir about his battles with cultural stereotypes, his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime.
In this honest, inspiring and relatable immigrant story, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu chronicles his family's journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood with razor-sharp wit and humor.
Simu's parents left him in the care of his grandparents, then brought him to Canada when he was four. Life as a Canuck, however, is not all that it was cracked up to be; Simu's new guardians lack the gentle touch of his grandparents, resulting in harsh words and hurt feelings. His parents, on the other hand, find their new son emotionally distant and difficult to relate to - although they are related by blood, they are separated by culture, language, and values.
As Simu grows up, he plays the part of the pious child flawlessly in a classic tale of the model minority myth - he gets straight A's, crushes national math competitions and makes his parents proud. But as time passes, he grows increasingly disillusioned with the path that has been laid out for him. Less than a year out of college, at the tender age of 22, his life hits rock bottom when he is laid off from his first job as an accountant. Left to his own devices, and with nothing left to lose, Simu embarks on a journey that will take him far outside of his comfort zone into the world of show business.
Through a swath of rejection and comical mishaps, Simu's determination to carve out a path for himself leads him to not only succeed as an actor, but also to open the door to reconciling with his parents.
We Were Dreamers is more than a celebrity memoir - it's a powerful coming-of-age story about growing up between cultures, navigating family conflict, and becoming the master of your own extraordinary circumstance.
But what happens when the path your parents lay out for you leads to a dead end?
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What begins as lifelong devotion turns complicated when love crosses a line neither of them can ignore.
Torn
Romance · College Romance · New Adult
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What begins as lifelong devotion turns complicated when love crosses a line neither of them can ignore. Torn follows a young woman and her father’s best friend as friendship shifts into forbidden desire, forcing them to confront loyalty, guilt, and the cost of wanting the wrong person. This is an angsty contemporary romance built on emotional intimacy, slow-burning tension, and painful restraint.
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"Well-written tension and forbidden longing. The angst in this was incredible! Loved every second!"
—Penelope Douglas, New York Times bestselling author of Credence
When I was five years old, I told Toren Grace we were going to get married someday. He’d been my closest friend, my protector, and my rock since the day I was born. But during my senior year, our relationship slowly changed. Silly conversations morphed into serious heart-to-hearts. Innocent friendship turned to stolen glances.
Then one day, an unexpected kiss changed everything.
While that kiss was all I’d ever dreamed of, it knocked Tor clear off his axis. His strong moral compass makes it impossible for him to accept our feelings for each other. Because, not only am I eighteen and fifteen years younger than him, I’m the one person he should never, ever want.
Tor is my father’s best friend—my pseudo uncle.
Neither one of us can stand to betray or hurt my dad, but we can’t keep our relationship hidden forever. Will there be a way for us to find our happily-ever-after? Or will we all be torn apart?
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Power, grief, and desire collide in Our Vicious Oaths as a warrior-princess is pulled into a deadly alliance with the enemy king who shattered her world.
Our Vicious Oaths
Romantasy
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Power, grief, and desire collide in Our Vicious Oaths as a warrior-princess is pulled into a deadly alliance with the enemy king who shattered her world. Kadeesha and Malachi must navigate fae politics, vengeance, and an attraction neither of them can afford, making this a dark romantasy driven by power struggles, forced proximity, and dangerous loyalty.
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"An instant romantasy classic!" -- Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author
Enter a new world of romantic fantasy from award-winning author N.E. Davenport—a journey of powerful magic, enemies-to-lovers, and political intrigue—as a warrior-princess and a vengeful king from rival fae courts form a fierce alliance to take down a merciless despot.
Princess of the Aether Dominion, Kadeesha wants nothing to do with fae politics. She is a warrior, first and foremost, and believes her greatest strength is leading her squadron of elite winged serpent flyers to protect her homeland. But bound since infancy to be betrothed to the Hyperion High King, ruler of all Dominions, she has no choice but to do what men have chosen for her.
Repulsed by the idea, she decides to spend one last night of freedom—in the arms of a dangerous stranger who takes her to sexual heights she’s never experienced before…but who is only using Kadeesha to set a trap for the High King.
For the High King and the kings of his six Dominions were responsible for the decimation of the Apollyon Court, and its new king, Malachi, wants his pounds of flesh.
On Kadeesha’s wedding day, Malachi and his special forces attack. Her father is killed, and Malachi wounds the High King, ultimately taking Kadeesha as hostage back to his land.
But she is no true hostage. The two form a pact: she will help lure the High King so Malachi can kill him once and for all, and he in turn will not harm Kadeesha or the Aether people. And as much as Kadeesha hates politics, she is now the Queen of her folk. Fae bonds are unbreakable…and so, perhaps, is the attraction Kadeesha and Malachi feel for each other. For even as they must publicly display their connection to provoke the High King’s jealousy, they struggle to resist the powerful allure between them in order to achieve their ultimate goals.
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It fits readers who want a college romance built on sharp tension, messy history, and attraction that refuses to stay buried.
Try Me
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult
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Old loyalty and fresh resentment make every encounter feel charged long before either man is willing to name why. In Try Me, two former best friends with family history and unresolved damage go head-to-head for the same law internship while their rivalry turns increasingly personal. It fits readers who want a college romance built on sharp tension, messy history, and attraction that refuses to stay buried.
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Two rivals. One law internship. A whole lot of objectionable activity.
It wasn’t always this way between us.
We were best friends growing up.
Competitive? Yeah.
Ruthless? Definitely.
Neither of us liked to lose.
But the intense chemistry?
That’s new.
The hatred in his eyes?
That’s new, too.
I should let it go.
There’s too much bad blood between our families. Between us.
But I can’t.
I don’t think he can, either.
Now we’re gunning for the same internship.
If he thinks I’ll back down, he’s dead wrong.
Once upon a time, I lost everything.
I won’t let it happen again.
Go ahead. Try me.
From the author of Want Me comes the second new adult college romance in the Extracurricular Activities series. Expect drama, snark, feels, egregious misuse of private property, a guy who’s way more heteroflexible than he realized, and a semi-sorta reformed bad boy who loves to test him.
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Visibility can feel dangerous when a family’s future depends on remaining unseen.
Children of the Land
Biographies & Memoirs
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Visibility can feel dangerous when a family’s future depends on remaining unseen. In Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo recounts growing up undocumented in the United States, tracing the fear, separation, and resilience that shaped his family’s life. It fits readers drawn to memoirs that are intimate, politically resonant, and grounded in the emotional cost of displacement, belonging, and survival.
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
A 2020 International Latino Book Award Finalist
An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year
This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence.
"You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story."
When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary.
With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father's deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry, and of his mother's heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor.
Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.
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It fits readers who want emotionally grounded historical fiction shaped by sisterhood, sacrifice, and survival under impossible conditions.
Angels of the Pacific
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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War narrows the world until courage becomes a daily act of endurance. In Angels of the Pacific, an American Army nurse and a Filipina student face occupation, imprisonment, and resistance in the Philippines during World War II, each forced to discover how far she will go to protect others. It fits readers who want emotionally grounded historical fiction shaped by sisterhood, sacrifice, and survival under impossible conditions.
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"Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be—and just how much they'll dare—during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. This story of endurance and sisterhood will have you turning pages late into the night." —Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author
If you loved Beantown Girls by Jane Healey and Hazel Gaynor’s When We Were Young & Brave, then you won’t want to miss critically acclaimed author Elise Hooper’s powerful new novel of the Angels of Bataan, nurses held as prisoners during the occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
Their survival would depend on sisterhood and service.
Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II’s American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately—victory.
The Philippines, 1941: Tess Abbott, an American Army nurse, has fled the hardships of the Great Depression at home for the glamour and adventure of Manila, one of the most desirable postings in the world. But everything changes when the Japanese Imperial Army invades with lightning speed and devastating results. Tess and her band of nurses serve on the front lines until they are captured as prisoners of war and held behind the high stone walls of Manila’s Santo Tomas Internment Camp.
When the Japanese occupation of her beloved homeland commences, Flor Dalisay, a Filipina university student, will be drawn into the underground network of resistance, discovering within herself reserves of courage, resilience, and leadership she never knew she possessed.
As the war continues, Tess and Flor face danger, deprivation, and terror, leading them into a web of danger as they unexpectedly work together to save lives and win their freedom.
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