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War tears Norah Chambers and Sister Nesta James from everything familiar, then binds them together in a prison camp built to crush hope.
Sisters Under the Rising Sun
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · World War 2
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War tears Norah Chambers and Sister Nesta James from everything familiar, then binds them together in a prison camp built to crush hope. In Sisters Under the Rising Sun, two women survive shipwreck, captivity, and relentless hardship by holding fast to friendship, duty, and the will to protect others. It’s a historical novel shaped by endurance, shared courage, and the emotional force of women resisting despair in wartime.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a story of sisterhood and survival, inspired by a true story.
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris.
In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again.
Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed.
After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination.
Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters.
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After war, violence, and survival by sheer endurance, the promise of peace can feel almost dangerous in its own way.
Lost Horizon
Literary Fiction
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After war, violence, and survival by sheer endurance, the promise of peace can feel almost dangerous in its own way. In Lost Horizon, Hugh Conway is drawn into the hidden world of Shangri-La after a plane crash in the Himalayas, where beauty, harmony, and long life carry an eerie sense of separation from the world beyond. It’s a contemplative classic built on wonder, exile, and the tension between sanctuary and return.
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In this “engagingly written” international bestseller, survivors of a plane crash discover a peaceful paradise hidden in the Himalayas called Shangri-La (The New York Times).
Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane.
When his plane crashes high in the Himalayas, Conway and the other survivors are found by a mysterious guide and led to a breathtaking discovery: the hidden valley of Shangri-La.
Kept secret from the world for more than two hundred years, Shangri-La is like paradise—a place whose inhabitants live for centuries amid the peace and harmony of the fertile valley. But when the leader of the Shangri-La monastery falls ill, Conway and the others must face the daunting prospect of returning home to a world about to be torn open by war.
Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century.
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In Kapitoil, ambition and dislocation shape a young man’s uneasy rise through New York’s finance world on the edge of Y2K.
Kapitoil
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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In Kapitoil, ambition and dislocation shape a young man’s uneasy rise through New York’s finance world on the edge of Y2K. Karim arrives armed with brilliance and logic, only to find that success, loyalty, and belonging are far harder to calculate. This is literary fiction with a sharp corporate setting, cultural tension, and a coming-of-age arc shaped by identity and moral conflict.
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"A brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes I've come across in a long time" in this coming of age novel set in NYC during Y2K (Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara).
"Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse," writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City from Qatar in 1999. Fluent in numbers, logic, and business jargon yet often baffled by human connection, the young financial wizard soon creates a computer program named Kapitoil that predicts oil futures and reaps record profits for his company.
At first an introspective loner adrift in New York's social scenes, he anchors himself to his legendary boss Derek Schrub and Rebecca, a sensitive, disillusioned colleague who may understand him better than he does himself. Her influence, and his father's disapproval of Karim's Americanization, cause him to question the moral implications of Kapitoil, moving him toward a decision that will determine his future, his firm's, and to whom—and where—his loyalties lie.
"An innovative and incisive meditation on the wages of corporate greed, the fundamental darkness of its vision lit by the author's great comic intelligence and wit." — Kathryn Davis, author of The Thin Place, Hell: A Novel, and Versailles
"[A] strong and heartfelt debut." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"This wonderfully assured debut novel, at once poignant, insightful, and funny, details Karim's passage through a new world of corporate sharks, Manhattan clubs, museums, Bob Dylan lyrics, and personal growth." —Booklist, starred review
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An orphan’s talent for shaping faces becomes both livelihood and burden in a city obsessed with spectacle, power, and death.
Little
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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An orphan’s talent for shaping faces becomes both livelihood and burden in a city obsessed with spectacle, power, and death. In Little, Marie is drawn from the margins of society into the worlds of royalty, revolution, and art as she grows into the woman history will remember as Madame Tussaud. This historical fiction novel blends macabre charm, class tension, and fierce determination.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." —Gregory Maguire, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.
In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do.
In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel—a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary historical fiction about occupation, identity, betrayal, and divided allegiance.
The Gift of Rain
Historical Fiction · Asian Fiction · World War 2
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A Man Booker Prize nominee, The Gift of Rain follows a young man on the island of Penang whose bond with a Japanese mentor leaves him caught between competing loyalties during World War II, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 7,100 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to literary historical fiction about occupation, identity, betrayal, and divided allegiance.
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In the tradition of celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell.
The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits.
In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton-the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families-feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities. He at last discovers a sense of belonging in his unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip proudly shows his new friend around his adored island, and in return Endo teaches him about Japanese language and culture and trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. When the Japanese savagely invade Malaya, Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei-to whom he owes absolute loyalty-is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and must now work in secret to save as many lives as possible, even as his own family is brought to its knees.
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Survival becomes both a physical and spiritual struggle in a novel shaped by grief, memory, and the brutal machinery of slavery.
Let Us Descend
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Survival becomes both a physical and spiritual struggle in a novel shaped by grief, memory, and the brutal machinery of slavery. Let Us Descend follows Annis as she is sold south and forced through an unforgiving landscape, sustained by the voices of her mother, her ancestors, and a world of spirits that blurs myth and history. This literary historical novel offers a harrowing, lyrical reading experience centered on endurance, rebirth, and reclamation.
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more.
“Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.” —Vogue • “A novel of triumph.” —The Washington Post • “Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly.” —People
From “one of America’s finest living writers” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub)—comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that’s destined to become a classic.
Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is “[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours” (NPR).
Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Annis leads readers through the descent, hers is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.
From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this “[s]earing and lyrical…raw, transcendent, and ultimately hopeful” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet.
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Some lives are marked as strange before they are ever allowed to be fully seen.
The Last Blue
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Some lives are marked as strange before they are ever allowed to be fully seen. In The Last Blue, a woman in 1930s Appalachia whose skin is blue becomes the focus of a photographer’s final assignment, and the connection that follows reshapes both their lives. This historical novel blends love, isolation, prejudice, and longing into a story about identity, spectacle, and what it means to be truly singular.
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In this luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky,” Isla Morley probes questions of identity, love, and family in her breathtaking new novel.
In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio—a writer and photographer—are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. For photographer Clay Havens, the assignment is his last chance to reboot his flagging career. So when he and his journalist partner are warned away from the remote Spooklight Holler outside of town, they set off eagerly in search of a headline story. What they see will haunt Clay into his old age: Jubilee Buford, a woman whose skin is a shocking and unmistakable shade of blue. From this happenstance meeting between a woman isolated from society and persecuted her whole life, and a man accustomed to keeping himself at lens distance from others, comes a mesmerizing story in which the dark shades of betrayal, prejudice, fear, and guilt, are refracted along with the incandescent hues of passion and courage. Panning across the rich rural aesthetic of eastern Kentucky, The Last Blue is a captivating love story and an intimate portrait of what it is like to be truly one of a kind.
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It fits readers who want dark romance steeped in psychological tension, toxic devotion, and a love story shaped by fear as much as desire.
Psychotic Obsession
Literary Fiction · Romance · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Obsession can look tender right up until it turns into control. In Psychotic Obsession, scientist Aria Miller’s connection with her new assistant deepens into something far more dangerous when his fixation hardens into possession and her attempt to leave threatens to expose who he really is. It fits readers who want dark romance steeped in psychological tension, toxic devotion, and a love story shaped by fear as much as desire.
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"Psychotic Obsession is the kind of psychological thriller that completely gets under your skin and never lets up. Leigh Rivers delivers a tense, emotionally charged story with believable conflict, unsettling realism, and an ending that hit even harder than I expected." -Apropos Books
LOVE IS DANGEROUS
TRUST IS A WEAKNESS
POSSESSION IS A TOXIC GAME
Sweet and gentle.
Calm and collected.
Nervous and inexperienced.
He was death cloaked in the form of a handsome man, and instead of running the other way the first chance she got, she fell for him.
Aria Miller is a scientist searching for the cure for a rare genetic disease when her world turns on its head – she collides with Tobias Mitchell. When she takes him on as her assistant, he becomes infatuated with her in ways he knows he shouldn’t be.
Then, reality hits, and Aria is forced to leave the country. Faced with the thought of losing the object of his obsession, Tobias’ mask slips, showing her his true self for the first time.
Aria is his, and he’ll do anything to make sure she stays that way.
This is an interconnected standalone set before The Edge of Darkness Trilogy
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In a seaside town shaped by memory, rumor can spread as fast as blight.
The Sparrow Sisters
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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In a seaside town shaped by memory, rumor can spread as fast as blight. The Sparrow Sisters follows three women whose quiet, plant-laced lives are thrown into turmoil when fear, grief, and buried suspicion turn their community against them. This magical realism novel blends small-town tension, sisterhood, and a modern witch-hunt atmosphere with a romantic thread and a strong sense of place.
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Suspicion and rumor threaten the future for three unique sisters in a seaside town in this "haunting, magical, modern-day fairytale" (Sarah Addison Allen).
"If you're looking for a read a la Elin Hilderbrand with a touch of magic, look no further than The Sparrow Sisters, Ellen Herrick's wicked and romantic debut." —Sarah Jio, New York Times and USA Today–bestselling author
The Sparrow Sisters are as tightly woven into the New England seaside town of Granite Point as the wild sweet peas that climb the stone walls along the harbor. Sorrel, Nettie and Patience are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk.
When a new doctor settles into Granite Point, he brings with him a mystery so compelling that town healer Patience is drawn to love him even as she struggles to mend him. But her herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, Granite Point is consumed by a long-buried fear—and its three-hundred-year-old history resurfaces as a modern-day witch hunt threatens. The plants and flowers, fruit trees, and high hedges begin to wither and die, and the entire town begins to fail: fishermen return to the harbor empty-handed, and blight descends on the old elms that line the lanes.
It seems as if Patience and her town are lost until the women of Granite Point band together to save the Sparrows. As they gather, drawing strength from each other, will they be able to turn the tide and return life to Granite Point?
"A delightfully intriguing debut, gracefully paced and skillfully crafted. Evocative to the last page." —Susan Messner, author of Secrets of a Charmed Life
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Faith, wonder, and catastrophe converge in The Sparrow, where a mission meant to make peaceful first contact ends in profound ruin.
The Sparrow
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Faith, wonder, and catastrophe converge in The Sparrow, where a mission meant to make peaceful first contact ends in profound ruin. Jesuit priest and linguist Emilio Sandoz leads an expedition to intelligent extraterrestrial life, but small misunderstandings slowly turn hope into devastation. This is thoughtful, emotionally intense science fiction that pairs first-contact discovery with questions of belief, guilt, and the cost of human certainty.
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A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
Praise for The Sparrow
“A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News
“[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today
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Old bargains do not stay buried, and on Tin Mountain their cost has begun to poison the living.
The Witch of Tin Mountain
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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Old bargains do not stay buried, and on Tin Mountain their cost has begun to poison the living. In The Witch of Tin Mountain, Gracelynn Doherty is pulled into a legacy of blood, folklore, and buried promises when a preacher from her grandmother’s past returns to collect what he believes he is owed. This gothic historical tale blends Appalachian atmosphere, generational dread, and supernatural menace.
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In Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of uncanny suspense by the author of Parting the Veil.
Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades.
1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures. Despite whispers that the women are witches, the superstitious locals still seek them out, whether to remedy arthritis or a broken heart. But when evangelist Josiah Bellflower comes to town promising miracle healing, full bellies, and prosperity, his revivals soon hold Tin Mountain in thrall—and Granny in abject fear.
Granny recognizes Josiah. Fifty years ago, in a dark and desperate moment, she made a terrible promise. Now Josiah, an enemy, has returned to collect his due.
As Granny sickens and the drought-ridden countryside falls under a curse, Gracelynn must choose: flee Tin Mountain and the only family she knows, or confront the vengeful preacher whose unholy mission is to destroy her.
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Saving humanity sounds noble right up until someone plants a bomb on the ship.
The Deep Sky
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Speculative Fiction
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Saving humanity sounds noble right up until someone plants a bomb on the ship. The Deep Sky follows a generation ship mission carrying Earth’s last hope, where one deadly explosion leaves the crew terrified, suspicious, and increasingly willing to turn on each other. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is stuck at the center of the chaos in this tense sci-fi thriller that blends space survival, buried secrets, and the kind of pressure that makes trust feel almost fictional.
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Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew.
They left Earth to save humanity. They’ll have to save themselves first.
It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
As the mystery unfolds on the ship, poignant flashbacks reveal how Asuka came to be picked for the mission. Despite struggling through training back on Earth, she was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. But estranged from her mother back home, The Phoenix is all she has left.
With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission—or worse, the bomber strikes again.
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