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On a failing island at the edge of the world, a stranger’s arrival unsettles a family already living under the weight of isolation, grief, and rising seas.
Wild Dark Shore
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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On a failing island at the edge of the world, a stranger’s arrival unsettles a family already living under the weight of isolation, grief, and rising seas. In Wild Dark Shore, a mysterious woman washes ashore as secrets begin to surface among the last caretakers of a remote seed bank. This novel blends atmospheric tension, emotional intimacy, and ecological dread into a story about trust, survival, and the cost of protecting what remains.
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REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB'S BOOK OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, TIME, USA Today, The Economist,Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest,BuzzFeed, BookRiot, HuffPost, Jezebel, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus, and more!)
"A breathtaking novel of ROMANCE, MYSTERY, AND TWISTS that will shock you...I love this book so much." —Reese Witherspoon
"A WILDLY TALENTED writer." ―Emily St. John Mandel
“Absolutely ASTONISHING. McConaghy's writing knocks me over every time.” —Fredrik Backman
“SPELLBINDING...Exceptionally imagined, thoroughly humane.” —Washington Post
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.
But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
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Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, preserving the truth becomes its own act of resistance as one man records the lives unfolding around him under impossible conditions.
We Must Not Think of Ourselves
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, preserving the truth becomes its own act of resistance as one man records the lives unfolding around him under impossible conditions. In We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Adam Paskow joins a secret archive and finds himself pulled toward love, duty, and an unbearable moral choice. This historical novel is marked by intimate witness, quiet courage, and the human cost of survival under Nazi occupation.
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From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller).
On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards to await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Would he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls?
Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny—and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, they fall in love. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: whom can he save, and at what cost ?
Inspired by the testimony-gathering project with the code name Oneg Shabbat, and told with immediacy and heart, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a piercing story of love, determination, and sacrifice.
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A strong match for readers drawn to haunted house horror, ancestral secrets, paranormal dread, and family trauma.
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
Asian Fiction · Thriller
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Avery and Carlos Tam travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines, where covered mirrors, family silence, and a brutal accident expose a past that refuses to stay quiet, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 30 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to haunted house horror, ancestral secrets, paranormal dread, and family trauma.
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Parents should pass down stories, not spirits…
Avery and Carlos Tam have built their lives on logic, not legends. Carlos, the host of a hit reality show that exposes paranormal hoaxes, has made a name disproving the supernatural.
But when they travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines, darkness clings to every corner. The mirrors are shrouded. The housekeeper won't stay in the house alone. And no one will speak of the tragedies the family has seen.
Then a brutal car crash leaves Carlos trapped in his own body—silent, helpless, and utterly vulnerable. As Avery tends to him, the house begins to stir. It watches. It listens. And it speaks—in a voice only Carlos can hear—offering a twisted kind of comfort.
And as the lies buried by Carlos and his family begin to surface, Avery must confront the truth: if the past won't rest, their future may never begin.
Some inherit memories. Others inherit monsters.
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In a small 1990s Irish coast town, friendship becomes both refuge and risk for two women trapped by marriage, judgment, and the limits placed on their lives.
The Coast Road
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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In a small 1990s Irish coast town, friendship becomes both refuge and risk for two women trapped by marriage, judgment, and the limits placed on their lives. When Colette returns home and is denied access to her children, Izzy becomes her link to the life she lost. The Coast Road is a literary drama of female longing, repression, and the painful cost of seeking freedom.
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Winner of the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2024
Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize
A poignant debut novel and work of Irish literary fiction about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and the search for independence in a society that seeks to limit it.
“Murrin powerfully renders the ways that women’s freedom, individuality, and self-expression are stifled by religion, custom, and gossip.”—The New Yorker
“A painful, gorgeous debut.”—Elle
Set in 1990s Ireland, The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children.
The only way she can see them is with the help of neighbour Izzy, acting as a go-between. Izzy also feels caught in a troubled marriage. The complex female friendship that develops between them in this powerful domestic drama will ultimately lead to tragedy for one, and freedom for the other.
Addictive as Big Little Lies with a depth and compassion that rivals the works of Claire Keegan, Elizabeth Strout, and Colm Tóibín, The Coast Road is a story about the limits placed on women’s lives in Ireland only a generation ago, and the consequences women have suffered trying to gain independence. Award-winning Irish author Alan Murrin reminds us of the price we are forced to pay to find freedom.
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Imprisoned as a witch and awaiting execution, Corrag is asked to recount the violence that placed her at the center of a Highland massacre and a political storm…
The Highland Witch
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Mystery
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Imprisoned as a witch and awaiting execution, Corrag is asked to recount the violence that placed her at the center of a Highland massacre and a political storm far larger than herself. As she tells her story to a man intent on using it for his own ends, The Highland Witch becomes a historical novel of love, survival, grief, and the transforming power of a woman’s voice.
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"This engrossing historical novel is essential for lovers of Scottish history. With its strong female protagonist, Fletcher's latest work casts a spell that will linger over readers long after they have finished the book." —Library Journal (starred review)
In 1692, brilliant, captivating Corrag—accused witch, orphaned herbalist, and unforgettable heroine—is imprisoned for her supposed involvement in a massacre in the Scottish highlands. Suspected of witchcraft and murder and awaiting her death, she tells her story to Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist who seeks information to condemn the Protestant King William, rumored to be involved in the massacre. Hers is a story of passion, courage, love, and the magic of the natural world. By telling it, she transforms both their lives.
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A life built on duty begins to shift when freedom arrives in a form Madame Wu never expected.
Pavilion of Women
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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A life built on duty begins to shift when freedom arrives in a form Madame Wu never expected. In Pavilion of Women, an esteemed wife in an upper-class Chinese household steps back from domestic obligations and begins to explore intellect, desire, and selfhood in ways that unsettle everyone around her. It fits readers drawn to literary historical fiction about women, tradition, and the quiet force of personal awakening.
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A "vivid and extremely interesting" novel of an upper-class Chinese wife's quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker).
At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China's oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she's free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn English, and to discover her own mind. The family in the compound are shocked at the results, especially when she begins learning from a progressive, excommunicated Catholic priest.
In its depiction of life in the compound, Pavilion of Women includes some of Buck's most enchanting writing about the seasons, daily rhythms, and customs of women in China. It is a delightful parable about the sexes, and of the profound and transformative effects of free thought.
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It fits readers who want emotionally rich World War II fiction shaped by sacrifice, family devotion, and the long afterlife of grief.
What the Silent Say
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · World War 2
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War fractures one family across oceans, years, and promises that may prove impossible to keep. In What the Silent Say, two brothers face the Pacific theater from different fronts while a wife, a child, and a cache of letters carry the cost of their choices into the next generation. It fits readers who want emotionally rich World War II fiction shaped by sacrifice, family devotion, and the long afterlife of grief.
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A Military Writers Society of America gold medal winner. Inspired by a remarkable true story and brought to life in cinematic detail, an unforgettable tale of courage, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bonds of family.
Florence, South Carolina 1944: Lieutenant Raymond Sellers bids farewell to his brother Jimmie, the weight of what lies ahead hanging heavy in the air. The brothers have always been inseparable—Raymond, the steady protector, Jimmie, the wild-hearted dreamer. But as Raymond embraces his pregnant wife Evelyn one last time, war is about to test the bonds of family in ways they never imagined.
As a summer storm shakes the windows, Evelyn brings her baby into a world at war. Across the vast Pacific theater, Raymond leads his men through brutal combat while Jimmie fights in the skies. One battle forces Raymond to choose between the family he promised to protect and the brothers he swore to never leave behind. Eighteen years later, a daughter finds a cache of letters in her father's desk and is shocked to find that some acts of courage echo across generations.
From the flowering dogwoods of South Carolina to the chilling trenches of Okinawa, What the Silent Say reminds us that even in our darkest hours, the human spirit has the capacity to endure. If you love anything by Kristin Hannah, Amy Harmon, or were moved by Band of Brothers, this book is a must-read.
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In a fading Atlantic City summer, missing women and half-buried secrets cast a shadow over every fragile connection.
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Literary Fiction · Mystery · Women's Fiction
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In a fading Atlantic City summer, missing women and half-buried secrets cast a shadow over every fragile connection. Clara, a boardwalk psychic shaken by visions she can’t explain, and Lily, a grieving casino spa worker, form an uneasy bond as disappearances mount around them. This literary thriller blends noir atmosphere, female friendship, and simmering dread into a story about violence, power, and survival.
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Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
This “beautifully written, thoughtful page-turner” (Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists) set in Atlantic City blends noir suspense, a missing persons mystery, and female friendship into a haunting, literary page-turner, as two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer when mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home.
Summer has come to Atlantic City, but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does lie hidden in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel. Only one person knows they’re there.
Meanwhile, Clara, a struggling boardwalk psychic, gives tarot readings to make ends meet—until she begins experiencing disturbing visions that feel all too real. As reports of missing women spread through town, Clara suspects her clairvoyance may be tied to the growing danger. When she meets Lily, a former Soho art gallery assistant now working at a nearly abandoned casino spa while grappling with personal loss, the two form an uneasy bond. Together, they begin to uncover a pattern—but getting too close to the truth may put them directly in harm’s way.
This “heartbreaking…riveting thriller” (Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers) explores the intersection of womanhood, power, violence, and survival, as two women confront buried truths and risk everything to stop a pattern of disappearance before it claims another victim.
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Grief, love, and anger knot together in a town where leaving feels as impossible as staying.
All My Rage
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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Grief, love, and anger knot together in a town where leaving feels as impossible as staying. In All My Rage, Salahudin and Noor struggle under family loss, buried hurt, and the weight of futures that keep slipping out of reach. It’s a contemporary novel with the sweep of generational history and the intimacy of first love, friendship, and the painful work of forgiveness.
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National Book Award WINNER
Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER
An INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER!
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century
"All My Rage is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don’t fit in." — New York Times Book Review
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.
Lahore, Pakistan. Then.
Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.
Juniper, California. Now.
Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding.
Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him—and Juniper—forever.
When Sal’s attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth—and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst.
From one of today’s most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness—one that’s both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.
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A forgotten power rises just as an old war threatens to consume everything.
A Song of Legends Lost
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · People of Color
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A forgotten power rises just as an old war threatens to consume everything. In A Song of Legends Lost, Temi’s accidental invocation pulls her into a brutal conflict shaped by rebellion, bloodlines, and buried history. It’s an epic fantasy built on war, ancestral magic, and political fracture, with a sweeping sense of danger and the feeling that legend itself may be turning against the living.
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“The exhilarating must-read fantasy debut of the year.” —Tasha Suri, World Fantasy Award–winning author
An unforgettable tale of revenge and rebellion unfolds when a reckless king implements an ill-fated plan to end a thousand-year war in this relentlessly gripping epic fantasy debut.
A SONG OF REBELLION. A SONG OF WAR. A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST.
The people of Nine Lands know their history. The kingdom once belonged to the Scathed people, until their greyblood servants rose up and slaughtered them. King Ahiki and his warlords laid claim to the realm by defeating the rebels and driving them out to the Feverlands.
Now, thousands of years later, attacks by the greybloods are rebuffed by the invoker clans, warriors of noble blood who summon their ancestors to fight with them in battle. But the war has gone on too long. A general draft is called to take the battle to the Feverlands and defeat the greybloods once and for all. A plan that seems doomed to fail.
When Temi, a commoner, accidentally invokes a powerful spirit, she believes it could be the key to ending the centuries-long war. But not everything that can be invoked is an ancestor, and some of the spirits that can be drawn from the ancestral realm are more dangerous than anyone can imagine.
Praise for A Song of Legends Lost:
“Ayinde is a master storyteller.” —Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter
“A whirlwind debut of ferocious talent and compulsive storytelling that lifts you up from the first page and never lets go.” —Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award–winning author
“A truly excellent debut.” —James Islington, author of The Will of the Many
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A princess trapped inside a beautiful lie turns captivity into resistance.
The Force of Such Beauty
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A princess trapped inside a beautiful lie turns captivity into resistance. In The Force of Such Beauty, Caroline fights to reclaim her body and will after marriage locks her inside a glittering system built on control. It reads like literary suspense wrapped in a fractured fairy tale, with claustrophobic tension, political menace, and a sharp focus on how power feeds on female beauty.
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“This is not your grandma’s fairy tale… Brilliant.” —The Washington Post
“The Force of Such Beauty grips with the strength of an Olympian and holds it with the endurance of a marathoner … [to] an ending that actually caught my breath, not once, but twice in quick succession.”—The Associated Press
One sunny afternoon in an idyllic kingdom by the sea, a princess named Caroline pretends to sleep. When her keepers strike up a card game, Caroline sneaks into her maid’s car, turns the key, and drives right out of the palace. Alone for the first time in years, she gets on the next flight—only to land in the waiting arms of her guards. As she’s forcibly escorted back to her marble prison, something in Caroline breaks for good. It’s not her first failed attempt, and it won’t be her last. Caroline suspects that she’ll never escape. But she might find a way to be free.
Barbara Bourland’s stunning third novel, a phantasmagorical fable of love and marriage, is her most ambitious and inventive book to date. Inspired by the alleged escape attempts of real-life princesses, The Force of Such Beauty is both the story of an idealistic young woman trapped by a corrupt promise, and a deeply moving reminder that power structures around the world ultimately rest on the subjugation of women’s bodies.
“A fascinating novel about bodies, the way we use them, and the way we break them. It’s one of several works to come out this year concerned with the appropriation of female beauty by powerful men, and examines a harsh choice in the lives of women dubbed desirable by the patriarchal state: do you participate, or do you say no?…Bourland is skilled at finding the noir in the everyday, and illustrating the mechanisms of control that keep us in our place.”—Crime Reads, Best Books of the Year (So Far)
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It fits readers who want martial arts fantasy with magic, shifting loyalties, and a strong ensemble cast.
The Art of Prophecy
Fantasy · Asian Fiction · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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When prophecy fails, faith, training, and destiny all collapse at once in this wuxia-inflected epic fantasy. Jian was raised to defeat an immortal tyrant, but once that future slips from his grasp, the kingdom’s fate falls to a volatile group of warriors, assassins, and masters who must redefine what a hero is. It fits readers who want martial arts fantasy with magic, shifting loyalties, and a strong ensemble cast.
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A “superb fantasy saga” (Helene Wecker) of martial arts and magic, about what happens when a prophesied hero is not the chosen one after all—but has to work with a band of unlikely allies to save the kingdom anyway, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lives of Tao
“An ambitious and touching exploration of disillusionment in faith, tradition, and family—a glorious reinvention of fantasy and wuxia tropes.”—Naomi Novik, New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Gizmodo, Kirkus Reviews, The Quill to Live
So many stories begin the same way: With a prophecy. A chosen one. And the inevitable quest to slay a villain, save the kingdom, and fulfill a grand destiny.
But this is not that kind of story.
It does begin with a prophecy: A child will rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, a cruel immortal god-king, and save the kingdom.
And that prophecy did anoint a hero, Jian, raised since birth in luxury and splendor, and celebrated before he has won a single battle.
But that’s when the story hits its first twist: The prophecy is wrong.
What follows is a story more wondrous than any prophecy could foresee, and with many unexpected heroes: Taishi, an older woman who is the greatest grandmaster of magical martial arts in the kingdom but who thought her adventuring days were all behind her; Sali, a straitlaced warrior who learns the rules may no longer apply when the leader to whom she pledged her life is gone; and Qisami, a chaotic assassin who takes a little too much pleasure in the kill.
And Jian himself, who has to find a way to become what he no longer believes he can be—a hero after all.
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