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A strong match for readers drawn to post-apocalyptic survival fiction with a difficult father-daughter relationship at its center.
EMP No Power No Shelter
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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EMP No Power No Shelter by William Stone follows Charlie, who escaped her father's obsessive preparations at sixteen, only to find that those preparations keep her alive after an EMP disaster. A strong match for readers drawn to post-apocalyptic survival fiction with a difficult father-daughter relationship at its center.
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She thought it was just another drill. He let her believe that for one more hour.
Her father's paranoia cost her a childhood, her inheritance, and years of her life. It was about to buy her every day she had left.
The town called him crazy. The lawyer called it theft. Burning through her dead mother's money on bunkers and guns. Charlie called it a prison and broke out at sixteen.
Then the disaster came, the kind that proves a paranoid man was just a prophet nobody believed, and everything his obsession stole from her became the only reason she lived.
In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic ruin, the father she ran from is the only reason she's still alive.
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A strong match for readers who like rebellious heroines, political intrigue, and action-packed science fiction.
Behind the Throne
Fantasy · Sci-Fi · Epic Fantasy · Space Colonization
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Called an “excellent SF adventure debut” by Publishers Weekly, this space opera follows Hail Bristol, a notorious gunrunner and runaway princess forced to return home as the Indranan Empire's last surviving heir. Facing assassination attempts and the mystery of her sisters' murders, Hail must navigate palace politics to survive. A strong match for readers who like rebellious heroines, political intrigue, and action-packed science fiction.
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"Taut suspense, strong characterization, and dark, rapid-fire humor are the highlights of this excellent SF adventure debut." —Publishers Weekly (starred review).
Hail Bristol has made a name for herself as one of the most fearsome gunrunners in the galaxy. But she can't escape her past forever: twenty years ago, she was a runaway princess of the Indranan Empire. Now, her mother's people have finally come to bring her home. But when Hail is dragged back to Indrana to take her rightful place as the only remaining heir, she finds that trading her ship for a palace is her most dangerous move yet.
In a world where the only safe options are fight or flight, Hail must rule.
"This debut ranks among the best political SF novels in years, largely because of the indomitable, prickly Hail . . . fast-paced, twisty space opera." —Library Journal (starred review)
"A darn good space adventure yarn. It takes the best of the smugglers' corner of the Star Wars universe and adds political intrigue and family drama." —Tor.com
"Promising science-fiction series . . . for fans of stories with plenty of action and political maneuvering." —Booklist
"Behind the Throne opens with a bang and maintains the momentum throughout the story." —RT Book Reviews
"Rich world building, great characters, and an enthralling story make for a page turner." —Pop Culture Beast
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Ideal for readers who enjoy epic fantasy with magical battles, religious intrigue, and an ongoing struggle against dark forces.
The Demon Spirit
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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Called “a gripping story…some of his best work” by Booklist, this second DemonWars novel follows Elbryan and Pony as goblins and powries continue attacking Corona, while the demon's surviving evil takes hold within a powerful religious leader. Ideal for readers who enjoy epic fantasy with magical battles, religious intrigue, and an ongoing struggle against dark forces.
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In book two of the DemonWars Saga, R. A. Salvatore’s epic fantasy adventure, Elbryan and Pony fervently hope that the tide of darkness is at last receding from the land of Corona—but if evil is on the retreat why are hordes of goblins and bloody-capped powries slashing their way ever deeper into civilized lands?
A sinister threat now looms over Corona for the power of the demon dactyl was not entirely vanquished by the sacrifice of the monk Avelyn Desbris. Instead, its darkness has infiltrated the most sacred of places—as a once-admired spiritual leader rededicates his life to the most vicious, most insidious revenge against the forces of good. There may be no stopping the spread of malignant evil.
#1 New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns to the DemonWars Saga in what Booklist calls “a gripping story…some of his best work.”
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Best for readers who like romantasy with dangerous competitions, sabotage, and attraction to a questionable ally.
Rider of Dragons
Romantasy · Dark Fantasy
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In Rider of Dragons by A. T. Qureshi, Genevieve defies her family to enter deadly dragon races, agreeing to give Qais her prize money in exchange for training. Best for readers who like romantasy with dangerous competitions, sabotage, and attraction to a questionable ally.
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"She wasn't afraid of getting hurt. She wasn't afraid of death, either…"
‘Easily one of my favourite books of the year’ - reader review
She wants to race dragons
Genevieve's family forbids her from joining the deadly dragon races. But she won't let them stop her.
He's the trainer she doesn't want, but needs
Without her family's money, nobody will train her. Desperate for help, she agrees to a terrible deal: Qais, an alleged member of a dragon poaching gang, will train her to win the races, if she agrees to give him her prize money.
Every race could be their last
The dragon races aren't just about being the fastest. There will be sabotage, attacks and all out violence. The devastatingly handsome Qais will teach her to be cunning and cruel, and Genevieve will be forced to answer a ruinous question: to win, is she willing to lose everything?
THE FIRST PART OF A THRILLING NEW ROMANTASY DUOLOGY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Readers are devouring Rider of Dragons
‘I read it in one sitting’
‘Wow, this book absolutely blew me away’
‘The tension between the main characters is delicious’
‘I cannot wait for the next one’
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This will appeal to readers who enjoy contemporary family dramas built around complicated ethical dilemmas and difficult personal decisions.
My Sister’s Keeper
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “compelling” by USA Today, this novel follows thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald, who has spent her life undergoing medical procedures to help her older sister Kate battle leukemia. When Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation, her decision forces the entire family to confront difficult questions about love, responsibility, and bodily autonomy. This will appeal to readers who enjoy contemporary family dramas built around complicated ethical dilemmas and difficult personal decisions.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, the “compelling” (USA TODAY) novel about a girl who sues her parents for the rights to her own body. Featuring fan favorite Jesse, who appears in the upcoming novel Hollow Bones.
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now.
Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
“A beautiful, heartbreaking, controversial, and honest book” (Booklist, starred review) My Sister’s Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child’s life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you?
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Readers who enjoy graphic creature horror and a city under attack should find plenty to like here.
The Rats
Horror
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A bestselling horror novel called “Splatterpunk deluxe” by Stephen King, The Rats follows high school teacher Harris as giant, flesh-eating rats attack London. A student’s rat bite draws him into the crisis as the creatures’ intelligence makes the threat increasingly dangerous. Readers who enjoy graphic creature horror and a city under attack should find plenty to like here.
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A special 50th anniversary edition of the classic bestselling horror novel The Rats.
‘Splatterpunk deluxe. Not only great, gory fun but a prime example of what was once called "the British nasty." I loved it then, love it still‘
– Stephen King
The first victim was a former paper salesman drinking himself into oblivion down by the docks. Next a child and her beloved dog, then six drifters fighting over a bottle of gin - all devoured by a black, writhing mass of giant rats.
As London descends into panicked chaos, high school teacher Harris is pulled head-first into the nightmare when a student arrives with a rat bite on his hand. And he quickly realises that this is no ordinary creature, nothing like anyone has ever seen before.
With their intelligent, wicked-looking eyes and razor-sharp teeth, the balance of power between man and rat has suddenly - shockingly, horribly - shifted.
The rats have had their first taste of human blood.
And they're hungry for more . . .
‘Lean, mean, and nasty as punk, The Rats are here! Capable of inciting riots and causing bloodshed‘
- Grady Hendrix, bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House
‘A seminal work from a king of British horror‘
– Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual
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A strong match for readers who enjoy traditional epic fantasy with magical creatures, dangerous quests, and large-scale battles.
The Demon Awakens
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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When a powerful demon awakens in the land of Corona, its armies of goblins and giants destroy the village of Dundallis, leaving childhood friends Elbryan and Pony orphaned and separated. Years later, they reunite to confront the evil threatening their homeland in the first book of the DemonWars saga. A strong match for readers who enjoy traditional epic fantasy with magical creatures, dangerous quests, and large-scale battles.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore brings an astonishing world to life in this high-stakes epic fantasy adventure as the intrepid hero Elbryan Wynden confronts the dark tides of destiny in his search for justice and peace.
A great evil has awakened in the land of Corona, a terrible demon determined to spread death and misery. His goblin armies and fearsome giants ravage the settlements of the frontier, and in the small village of Dundallis, their merciless attack leaves behind two shattered orphans: Pony and her lifelong friend, the youth Elbryan. Taken in by elves, Elbryan is raised to become a formidable ranger—a fateful role that will lead him into battle against an ancient evil.
Meanwhile, on a far-off island, a shower of gemstones will fall onto the black-sand shores. These heaven-sent stones carry within them an incredible power—the source of a unique form of gemstone magic and the key to all that is good in the world and all that is evil, and it is up to one young monk to liberate them from the corrupt monastery that harvests them. Pray they don’t fall into the wrong clawed hands.
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An inviting choice for readers who enjoy animal memoirs, nature writing, and true stories about the bond between people and their dogs.
The Dog Who Came to Stay
Biographies & Memoirs
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A national bestselling memoir praised by The New York Times Book Review as a story that “will appeal to many sportsmen and to all people who have ever been closely attached to a dog,” this book recounts nature writer Hal Borland's friendship with Pat, a hungry foxhound who appears at his Connecticut farmhouse during a winter storm. As Pat becomes part of the household, Borland reflects on companionship, trust, and the natural world, with a 4.2-star average from more than 2,900 Goodreads ratings. An inviting choice for readers who enjoy animal memoirs, nature writing, and true stories about the bond between people and their dogs.
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The national bestselling memoir of a friendship between a New England outdoorsman and the scrawny foxhound who came to his door one snowy day.
In the midst of a blizzard, late one Christmas night in the 1950s, author Hal Borland heard a howl at the back door of his home on a hundred-acre farm in the Housatonic Valley of northwest Connecticut. Resistant at first, he called around trying to find an owner whose dog had gone missing—with no luck. Finally, with the encouragement of his wife and haunted by memories of his childhood collie, Borland brought some scraps of leftover steak outside. This was his introduction to Pat, a miserable, half-starved, but deeply trusting black-and-white foxhound mutt.
Pat would soon become a member of the family, accompanying Borland on hunts and terrorizing the local woodchuck population—and teaching him that sometimes our most immediate connection to the natural world is through the animals we live with. A longtime journalist and a winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing, Borland tells the tale of the time he shared with Pat in this touching true story that "will appeal to many sportsmen and to all people who have ever been closely attached to a dog" (The New York Times Book Review).
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A good pick for readers who appreciate sweeping historical fiction, multigenerational stories, and richly detailed settings.
Hawaii
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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James Michener's historical saga traces the Hawaiian Islands from their geological formation through centuries of settlement and cultural change. Through generations of Polynesian settlers, missionaries, merchants, and Asian immigrants, the novel explores the people and events that shaped Hawaii's history. A good pick for readers who appreciate sweeping historical fiction, multigenerational stories, and richly detailed settings.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries—until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers make the perilous journey across the Pacific, flourishing in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions. Then, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrive, bringing with them a new creed and a new way of life. Based on exhaustive research and told in Michener’s immersive prose, Hawaii is the story of disparate peoples struggling to keep their identity, live in harmony, and, ultimately, join together.
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This will appeal to readers who enjoy coming-of-age mysteries, family secrets, and psychological suspense.
What Kind of Paradise
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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A national bestseller called “absorbing and well-crafted” by The Washington Post, this psychological suspense novel follows Jane, a teenager raised in isolation by her father in a Montana cabin during the 1990s. When she begins questioning the life he has built for them, she discovers that much of what she believed about her family may be untrue. This will appeal to readers who enjoy coming-of-age mysteries, family secrets, and psychological suspense.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A teenage girl breaks free from her father’s world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this “absorbing and well-crafted” (The Washington Post) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.
“A mesmerizing blend of coming-of-age and psychological suspense, set against the birth of the internet age.”—People
The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.
As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother’s death: San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.
In this sweeping, suspenseful novel from bestselling author Janelle Brown, we see a young woman on a quest to understand how we come to know ourselves. It is a bold and unforgettable story about parents and children; nature and technology; innocence and knowledge; the losses of our past and our dreams for the future.
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A moving fit for readers drawn to literary fiction about displacement, marriage, and the refugee experience.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Literary Fiction
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An international bestseller praised as “A beautifully crafted novel of international significance” by Heather Morris, this novel follows Syrian beekeeper Nuri and his wife, Afra, as they flee war-torn Aleppo. With Afra having lost her sight, the couple journeys through Turkey and Greece toward an uncertain future in Britain. A moving fit for readers drawn to literary fiction about displacement, marriage, and the refugee experience.
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This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.
“A beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us open our eyes and see.”—Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE
Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo—until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home. But escaping Syria will be no easy task: Afra has lost her sight, leaving Nuri to navigate her grief as well as a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece toward an uncertain future in Britain.
Nuri is sustained only by the knowledge that waiting for them is his cousin Mustafa, who has started an apiary in Yorkshire and is teaching fellow refugees beekeeping. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss but dangers that would overwhelm even the bravest souls. Above all, they must make the difficult journey back to each other, a path once so familiar yet rendered foreign by the heartache of displacement.
Moving, intimate, and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a book for our times: a novel that at once reminds us that the most peaceful and ordinary lives can be utterly upended in unimaginable ways and brings a journey in faraway lands close to home, never to be forgotten.
Praise for The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“This book dips below the deafening headlines, and tells a true story with subtlety and power.”—Esther Freud, author of Mr. Mac and Me
“This compelling tale had me gripped with its compassion, its sensual style, and its onward and lively urge for resolution.”—Daljit Nagra, author of British Museum
“This novel speaks to so much that is happening in the world today. It’s intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant, but very importantly it is accessible. I’m recommending this book to everyone I care about.”—Benjamin Zephaniah, author of Refugee Boy
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This will appeal to readers who want psychological suspense about captivity, guilt, and uncertain survival.
The Girls in the Dark
Thriller
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Called “Smart, sophisticated, and seriously scary” by Alex Finlay, this thriller follows an abduction survivor who receives threatening signs twenty years after escaping without her twin sister. She begins questioning whether her sister survived, while hiding the truth about her escape, with a 4.1-star average from more than 2,600 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want psychological suspense about captivity, guilt, and uncertain survival.
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“Sooo good… Completely addictive from start to finish. It literally hooked me from the very first chapter and did NOT let go. Every time I thought I could pause… nope, I needed ‘just one more chapter’… My jaw was literally on the floor!!! Completely obsessed.” book.ish.wander.lust
Twenty years ago, my twin sister and I were abducted. Only I survived. Or so I thought…
The day my sister and I were kidnapped was a normal day. We were in the woods behind our house after school, when a man appeared. A few minutes later, we had vanished without a trace.
For months we were held in darkness. The night I escaped was the last time I saw my sister. I promised I would come back for her, but it was a promise I failed to keep.
Now, on the twentieth anniversary of our abduction, I find a black rose on my car. Immediately, I know it’s a warning. Has my kidnapper finally come back for me?
Then an image of my sister comes into my mind, and my heart starts to pound. I convinced myself that she died in that room, but what if I was wrong? Because if she’s back, and the truth of what happened the night I escaped comes to light, it will destroy everything…
An addictive and breathtaking thriller, packed with nail-biting tension and a shocking final twist, The Girls in the Dark is perfect for fans of Jessica Knoll, Mary Kubica and John Marrs.
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