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Madeleine falls for her sister’s fiancé.
The Third Angel
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction
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Madeleine falls for her sister’s fiancé. Frieda becomes a doomed rock star’s muse. Bryn is torn between her fiancé and her ex. At the heart is Lucy, haunted by childhood guilt and searching for the Third Angel—a symbol of grace and redemption. This moving novel weaves love, loss, and hope, showing angels can appear in the most unexpected places.
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Headstrong Madeleine Heller is irresistibly drawn to her sister’s fiancé, setting the stage for heartbreak. Frieda Lewis, the rebellious daughter of a doctor, becomes the muse of a doomed rock star. Bryn Evans, poised to marry an Englishman, can’t shake her secret obsession with her ex-husband.
At the center of it all is Lucy Green, who has carried the weight of guilt since witnessing a tragic accident as a child. Her lifelong search for the Third Angel—a figure of grace and renewal—spans decades and intertwines with the lives of these women.
With poignant storytelling, this novel explores love, loss, and redemption, reminding us that angels exist in the most unexpected places and that forgiveness is the key to healing.
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Decades after their son’s tragic death, Harold and Lucille Hargrave are shocked when Jacob reappears—still eight years old.
The Returned
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Decades after their son’s tragic death, Harold and Lucille Hargrave are shocked when Jacob reappears—still eight years old. All over the world, loved ones are returning, sparking chaos and confusion. Is it a miracle or a sign of the end? As the Hargraves confront this new reality, they face a world unraveling under the weight of the impossible.
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Harold and Lucille Hargrave lost their eight-year-old son, Jacob, in 1966. Decades later, they’ve come to terms with their loss and settled into a quiet life—until the impossible happens. Jacob appears on their doorstep, unchanged, still eight years old.
Around the world, people’s loved ones are returning from the dead. No one can explain it. Is it a miracle, or a harbinger of doom? As chaos spreads and questions go unanswered, Harold, Lucille, and Jacob must navigate a world on the brink of collapse, where fear, wonder, and uncertainty rule.
At the heart of this gripping, thought-provoking story lies a question: how do we face the unimaginable? The Returned explores love, loss, and the fragile balance between hope and fear in an utterly transformed world.
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Three mothers, three crises, and one terrifying question: how far will they go to protect their children?
Feral Creatures of Suburbia
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Three mothers, three crises, and one terrifying question: how far will they go to protect their children? Julie’s son might be a danger to himself or others. Varvara’s daughter’s latest cry for help may be deadly. Crystal is hiding her terminal illness from her son. When their lives collide, will their sacrifices be enough to save their families?
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Mothers will do anything to protect their children... but sometimes the greatest threats come from within.
Julie White’s sweet son has become a teenage terror. A glimpse into his private messages reveals something far darker than growing pains, leaving Julie questioning whether her son is a danger to others—or himself.
Varvara Perlman’s demanding research job pales in comparison to raising her emotionally-complex daughter. Ignoring another school counselor’s call feels easier—until the crisis becomes impossible to dismiss, and Varvara fears it may already be too late.
Crystal Carrasco doesn’t let anything faze her, not even a terminal illness. Determined to keep her diagnosis from disrupting her son’s life, she’ll do whatever it takes to hide the truth.
Three women, one shared crisis. How far will they go when the unthinkable threatens their children?
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In Ireland’s rugged West Cork, city girl Grainne struggles to fit into a rural farming community.
Legend of the Selkie
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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In Ireland’s rugged West Cork, city girl Grainne struggles to fit into a rural farming community. Blending modern life with myth, this moving novel explores the clash between Ireland’s traditions and the commercial world. Richly described and tinged with the selkie legend, Grainne’s journey reveals the beauty, challenges, and secrets of a culture rooted in its land and stories.
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Set against the rugged backdrop of West Cork, Ireland, this moving novel weaves modern life with a wisp of myth and tradition.
Grainne, a determined city girl, finds herself transplanted to a rural farming community after falling for a young Irish farmer. But as she navigates the close-knit village, its wild coastline, and a lingering tradition of storytelling, Grainne begins to see the cracks between her modern perspective and the deeply rooted culture around her.
With a wistful nod to the selkie legend, this tale explores the clash between Ireland’s rural heritage and the encroaching commercial world. Through Grainne’s eyes, readers are immersed in the beauty, struggles, and superstitions of a community tied to its land—and to its stories.
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Jessie’s glamorous life hides loneliness.
A Song For Josh
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Jessie’s glamorous life hides loneliness. Josh’s hard life hides hope. When their worlds collide outside a club, sparks fly—but love isn’t simple. With Jessie’s past threatening her future and Josh’s scars still raw, their connection must defy odds and expectations. Can they find solace in each other before it’s too late?
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Jessie’s fame shines bright on TV and stage, but behind the glamour lies a crushing loneliness. Nights at her boyfriend’s club, surrounded by adoring fans, should bring joy—yet Jessie feels trapped in a loveless life.
Josh has known nothing but struggle. Pain has defined him, but hope flickers when he meets Jessie in the unlikeliest of places—a garbage pile outside a club. The connection between them is undeniable, but their lives are anything but simple.
As Jessie’s past resurfaces, chaos threatens to shatter their fragile bond. With the cast of Drifters weighing in and old wounds reopening, can Jessie and Josh find a love strong enough to withstand it all?
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Thora and Santi find each other in every life—friends, lovers, enemies—but their connection always ends in heartbreak.
Meet Me in Another Life
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Time Travel
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Thora and Santi find each other in every life—friends, lovers, enemies—but their connection always ends in heartbreak. As memories blur and realities repeat, they uncover a haunting truth: their bond is no accident. To escape their endless cycle, they must confront the mystery binding them together before it’s too late. This time, it’s life or death.
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Thora and Santi meet by chance, two strangers seeking more than the hand life has dealt them. In an instant, they connect, recognizing in each other a kindred spirit. But tragedy cuts their story short. Then, they meet again. And again.
Through lifetimes, Thora and Santi are drawn together—husband and wife, teacher and student, caretaker and patient. Yet as their shared histories blur, unsettling memories and strange patterns emerge. With each new life, their bond deepens, but so do the questions: Why are they forever entwined? And what will it take to break free?
Faced with an unimaginable truth, Thora and Santi must uncover the secret of their endless cycles before time runs out—before this life becomes their last.
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Twelve years after escaping the Watt Lake Killer, Olivia West has built a quiet life on a remote ranch.
A Dark Lure
Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Contemporary Romance
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Twelve years after escaping the Watt Lake Killer, Olivia West has built a quiet life on a remote ranch. But when a new body is discovered, her worst fear resurfaces: the killer may still be out there. With danger closing in and her past haunting her, Olivia must fight for her life once again.
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Twelve years ago, Sarah Baker survived a brutal abduction by the Watt Lake Killer. Though the killer was caught, Sarah lost everything—her family, her sense of safety, and the life she once knew. Now living as Olivia West and working on a secluded ranch, she’s tried to leave the past behind.
But when a new body is discovered, the nightmare reignites. A relentless cop believes the killer is still out there, and Olivia fears the past has come back to finish what was started. As a harsh winter closes in on the ranch, her only ally is Cole McDonough, a rugged writer who stirs feelings Olivia thought were long buried.
Can Olivia escape the shadows of her past, or will confronting them cost her everything—including her life?
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Yeong-hye’s quiet act of defiance—renouncing meat—shatters the fragile order of her life.
The Vegetarian
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Yeong-hye’s quiet act of defiance—renouncing meat—shatters the fragile order of her life. As family members try to reassert control, their actions grow increasingly grotesque, pushing her to the brink of estrangement from everyone, including herself. Haunting and visceral, her journey explores the limits of autonomy, identity, and the cost of rebellion.
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Before the nightmares, Yeong-hye’s life was ordinary, defined by routine and control. But when vivid, violent dreams invade her mind, she decides to renounce meat—a seemingly small rebellion that disrupts her marriage and fractures her family.
Her husband and relatives see her defiance as a threat, escalating their efforts to dominate her choices. As Yeong-hye clings to her independence, their intrusions grow increasingly grotesque, turning her life into a battleground of will and identity.
Her mental and physical boundaries blur under the weight of their desperation, pushing Yeong-hye into an alienating and dangerous estrangement—not just from her family, but from herself.
As her rebellion spirals into obsession, the question remains: is she breaking free, or unraveling entirely?
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This is an emotional second-chance romance for readers drawn to nostalgia, timing, and love shaped by regret.
Before We Were Strangers
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A single missed moment reopens a love story that never fully let go in Before We Were Strangers. When Matt spots the woman he lost fifteen years earlier, memories of their intense connection in New York come rushing back, along with everything that pulled them apart. This is an emotional second-chance romance for readers drawn to nostalgia, timing, and love shaped by regret.
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From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City.
To the Green-eyed Lovebird:
We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House.
You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.
We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other.
Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding…
I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.
After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?
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Beauty becomes a source of devastation in The Bluest Eye, a literary novel that examines longing, shame, and the violence of impossible ideals.
The Bluest Eye
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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Beauty becomes a source of devastation in The Bluest Eye, a literary novel that examines longing, shame, and the violence of impossible ideals. As Pecola Breedlove yearns for blue eyes and the acceptance she believes they would bring, her story reveals the emotional and cultural forces destroying her sense of self. This is a heartbreaking, incisive read shaped by pain, vulnerability, and loss.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. • With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson.
“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”—The New York Times
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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Friendship becomes both refuge and reckoning over the course of a lifetime.
A Little Life
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Contemporary Fiction
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Friendship becomes both refuge and reckoning over the course of a lifetime. In A Little Life, four friends build their lives in New York, bound by ambition, loyalty, and their devotion to the enigmatic Jude. As years pass, love and success coexist with addiction and unresolved trauma. The novel offers an unflinching exploration of chosen family, endurance, and the lasting impact of suffering.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
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Ideal for readers looking for literary fiction combining family, healing, mystery, and the possibility of magic.
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist, this novel follows graduate student Joanna Teale after a mysterious bruised child appears at her cabin claiming to come from the stars. Jo and her reclusive neighbor Gabe work to uncover the girl’s past as the three form an unexpected bond, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 6,200 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for literary fiction combining family, healing, mystery, and the possibility of magic.
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An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.
In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.
The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.
Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?
Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.
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