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Good for readers who like WWII nonfiction about espionage, resistance work, courage, and wartime love.
Code Name: Lise
Biographies & Memoirs
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A national bestseller called “A nonfiction thriller” by The Wall Street Journal, Code Name: Lise tells the true story of Odette Sansom, an SOE agent who operated in occupied France, fell in love with her commanding officer, and endured capture without betraying her colleagues, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 4,200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like WWII nonfiction about espionage, resistance work, courage, and wartime love.
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From New York Times and international bestselling author of the “gripping” (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Into the Lion’s Mouth comes the extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II—perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Nightingale, and Code Girls.
The year is 1942, and World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and one plane crash later, she finally lands in occupied France to begin her mission. It is here that she meets her commanding officer Captain Peter Churchill.
As they successfully complete mission after mission, Peter and Odette fall in love. All the while, they are being hunted by the cunning German secret police sergeant, Hugo Bleicher, who finally succeeds in capturing them. They are sent to Paris’s Fresnes prison, and from there to concentration camps in Germany where they are starved, beaten, and tortured. But in the face of despair, they never give up hope, their love for each other, or the whereabouts of their colleagues.
In Code Name: Lise, Larry Loftis paints a portrait of true courage, patriotism, and love—of two incredibly heroic people who endured unimaginable horrors and degradations. He seamlessly weaves together the touching romance between Odette and Peter and the thrilling cat and mouse game between them and Sergeant Bleicher. With this amazing testament to the human spirit, Loftis proves once again that he is adept at writing “nonfiction that reads like a page-turning novel” (Parade).
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This will appeal to readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about grief, second chances, and the lives we might have lived.
The Life Intended
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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More than a decade after her husband Patrick's death, Kate is engaged again when vivid dreams of Patrick make her question whether she's ready to move on. Her search for meaning leads her into a sign language class and the New York City foster system, with a 4.2-star average from more than 16,700 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about grief, second chances, and the lives we might have lived.
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Sliding Doors meets P.S. I Love You in this richly told novel from the author of The Sweetness of Forgetting about the struggle to overcome the past.
After her husband’s sudden death over ten years ago, Kate Waithman never expected to be lucky enough to find another love of her life. But now she’s planning her second walk down the aisle to a perfectly nice man. So why isn’t she more excited?
At first, Kate blames her lack of sleep on stress. But when she starts seeing Patrick, her late husband, in her dreams, she begins to wonder if she’s really ready to move on. Is Patrick trying to tell her something? Attempting to navigate between dreams and reality, Kate must uncover her husband’s hidden message. Her quest leads her to a sign language class and into the New York City foster system, where she finds rewards greater than she could have imagined.
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Ideal for readers who like absurdist science fiction, satire, and stories told through multiple perspectives.
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
Sci-Fi
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From Hugo and Locus Award-winning author John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye imagines the moon suddenly turning into cheese. Across one lunar cycle, people around the world respond with panic, scientific inquiry, questions of faith, grief, and humor, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 3,000 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers who like absurdist science fiction, satire, and stories told through multiple perspectives.
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New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
The moon has turned into cheese.
Now humanity has to deal with it.
For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.
Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and terminal patients at the end of their lives -- over the length of an entire lunar cycle, each get their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to pray, to laugh and to grieve. All in a kaleidoscopic novel that goes all the places you’d expect, and then to so many places you wouldn’t.
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Marked by prophecy as the weakest of five heroes, Alex Roth refuses his divine role and runs toward a magic academy instead.
Mark of the Fool
Fantasy · LitRPG
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Marked by prophecy as the weakest of five heroes, Alex Roth refuses his divine role and runs toward a magic academy instead. With spells sabotaged and limits enforced by fate itself, he must outthink destiny to grow stronger. Mark of the Fool delivers clever progression fantasy with deep worldbuilding, humor, and grit, earning 4.6 stars on Amazon.
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The gods chose him. He said no.
After his parents died, Alex Roth had one desire: become a wizard. Through hard work, he was accepted into the University of Generasi, the world’s greatest academy of wizardry...
Fate, however, had other plans.
On his eighteenth birthday, he is Marked by prophecy as one of his kingdom’s five Heroes, chosen to fight the Ravener, his land’s great enemy. But his brand is 'The Fool'. Worst of the marks.
Rather than die or serve other Heroes like past Fools, he takes a stand, rejects divine decree…and leaves. With his little sister, his childhood friend, and her cerberus, Alex flees for the university, hoping to research the mystery of the Ravener. He’ll make lifelong friends, learn magic from mad wizards, practice alchemy, fight mana vampires and try to pay tuition.
There’s one small problem. The Mark insists on preventing the Fool from learning and casting spells, while enhancing skills outside of divinity, combat, and spellcraft…
…that is, unless he learns to exploit the hell out of it.
Explore a coming of age magic academy fantasy with a weak-to-strong progression into power, a setting inspired by D&D, detailed world building and magical science, action, comedy, slice-of-life, and GameLit elements.
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A closeted hockey captain risks his career after one night with his openly bisexual teammate.
Rylan
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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A closeted hockey captain risks his career after one night with his openly bisexual teammate. As pressure builds on and off the ice, attraction collides with fear, loyalty, and buried pain. Rylan delivers a high-stakes M/M sports romance driven by secrecy, emotional vulnerability, and hard-earned trust, earning 4.3 stars on Amazon and strong reader praise.
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Rylan
One hot night with my teammate threatens to expose my secret and end my career.
I've spent my entire hockey career hiding who I really am. Between trying to lead my struggling team, dealing with an alcoholic father, and living in the shadow of my brother's legacy, my life feels like one endless fight. The last thing I need is for anyone to discover my secret. Then Jamie Pirelli arrives—young, talented, and openly queer. He sees through all my walls, and suddenly everything I've built is at risk.
Jamie
I'm more than just the first openly bisexual player in the league.
After a disastrous start to my pro hockey career in Florida, Seattle is my last chance. I can't afford any more scandals, but the chemistry between me and my deep-in-the-closet captain is impossible to ignore. Our connection on the ice is what hockey legends are made of. Off the ice... is a different game altogether.
A high-stakes hockey romance between the team captain with loads of baggage and the superstar struggling to be taken seriously. An impossible-to-resist forbidden relationship between a wounded control freak with a tragic backstory and a sunshiny free spirit with a tarnished reputation.
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A confessed murderer recants his story, and a true crime podcast reopens a case meant to stay buried.
Beneath Devil’s Bridge
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Police Procedural
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A confessed murderer recants his story, and a true crime podcast reopens a case meant to stay buried. As revelations surface beneath Devil’s Bridge, a podcaster and a retired detective confront secrets that threaten to unravel an entire town. This gripping suspense novel holds 4.4 stars on Amazon and more than 45,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A true crime podcast yields new revelations about a shocking murder in a riveting novel of suspense by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White.
True crime podcaster Trinity Scott is chasing breakout success, and her brand-new serial may get her there. Her subject is Clayton Jay Pelley. More than two decades ago, the respected family man and guidance counselor confessed to the brutal murder of teenage student Leena Rai. But why he killed her has always been a mystery.
In a series of exclusive interviews from prison, Clayton discloses to Trinity the truth about what happened that night beneath Devil’s Bridge. It’s not what anyone in the Pacific Northwest town of Twin Falls expects. Clayton says he didn’t do it. Was he lying then? Or now?
As her listeners increase and ratings skyrocket, Trinity is missing a key player in the story: Rachel Walczak, the retired detective who exposed Pelley’s twisted urges and put him behind bars. She’s not interested in playing Clayton’s game—until Trinity digs deeper and the podcast’s reverb widens. Then Rachel begins to question everything she thinks she knows about the past.
With each of Clayton’s teasing reveals, one thing is clear: he’s not the only one in Twin Falls with a secret.
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A legendary explorer uncovers a secret powerful enough to reshape nations.
The Secret of the King’s Tomb
Thriller
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A legendary explorer uncovers a secret powerful enough to reshape nations. Drafted into a covert mission after World War I, Richard Halliburton races across Egypt to stop a buried artifact from falling into dangerous hands. This historical thriller blends espionage, myth, and real-world adventure, earning 4.0 stars on Amazon and over 1,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A deep secret that only one man knew … until the whole world found out.
Richard Halliburton, the world famous travel writer and explorer in the early 1920s and 30s, embarked on a journey to explore the world. But he found much more than he ever imagined—and far more than he ever told.
Following the end of World War I, the German Reichswehr set out on an ambitious—and unconventional—expedition to rebuild the military’s war chest beyond the auspices of the restrictive Treaty of Versailles. But when U.S. Army intelligence got wind of what the Reichswehr was doing, action was required. And Richard Halliburton was the man drafted into service.
Join Halliburton on this pulse-pounding adventure in his race to stop the Germans from uncovering one of the greatest artifacts—and secrets—in Egyptian history.
If you love the Indiana Jones franchise, Clive Cussler, or Dan Brown, you’re sure to enjoy this new series from Garrett Drake.
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Chosen to save a failing world, a cursed outcast must cross the Badlands with a dangerous mercenary whose protection carries a seductive cost.
Crown of War and Shadow
Fantasy · Romantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Chosen to save a failing world, a cursed outcast must cross the Badlands with a dangerous mercenary whose protection carries a seductive cost. As demons breach reality and secrets unravel, desire and betrayal threaten everything. This slow burn romantasy blends epic stakes, dark magic, and forbidden attraction from a number one New York Times bestselling author.
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“J.R. Ward is a powerhouse in the genre and never disappoints!”--Rebecca Yarros, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
"Absolutely unputdownable!"--Jennifer Armentrout, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
Crown of War and Shadow is a brand new, sweeping, slow-burn romantasy from #1 New York Times bestseller J. R. Ward, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, and Jennifer Armentrout!
An outcast burdened with a curse. A mercenary out for himself. A kingdom that must be saved.
In the deep, dark, dead of night, passions rise, and empires fall…
The Fulcrum is failing, and demons are slipping into the mortal world.
No one is safe.
Especially not Sorrel. An orphan and an outcast within the walls of her small village because of her mystical abilities. She wants to survive…and find somewhere she can call her true home. But Fate has other plans.
Sorrel has been chosen. Cursed.
She must cross the Badlands to return the Queen's crown and convince the fearsome female to save their world from destruction.
Well aware she’s no brave hero, Sorrel makes a dangerous deal with Merc, a brooding, commanding mercenary known only by his unscrupulous profession.
The deal? A night in his bed that she will never forget, in exchange for her safe passage.
But Merc has secrets of his own, and even though desire runs hot between them, adventure, danger, and betrayal lurk around every corner.
Crown of War and Shadow is the first book in the Kingdoms of the Compass series.
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After aliens domesticate humanity, one man lives as a “good” pet until his owner gambles his life away.
After The Fall
Sci-Fi · First Contact
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After aliens domesticate humanity, one man lives as a “good” pet until his owner gambles his life away. With sixty days to buy back his freedom, John navigates alien crime, feral humans, and a deadly mystery in the woods. This genre-blending science fiction novel mixes satire, danger, and unexpected heart.
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Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets?
Humans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good.
All his life, John has tried to live by those rules. Most days, it’s not too difficult. A hundred and twenty years after The Fall, and a hundred years after the grays swept in to pick the last dregs of humanity out of the wreckage of a ruined world, John has found himself bonded to Martok Barden nee Black Hand, one of the "good" grays. Sure, Martok is broke, homeless, and borderline manic, but he’s always treated John like an actual person, and sometimes like a friend. It’s a better deal than most humans get.
But when Martok puts John’s bond up as collateral against an abandoned house in the woods that he hopes to turn into a wilderness retreat for wealthy grays, John learns that there are limits to Martok’s friendship. Soon he finds himself caught between an underworld boss who thinks Martok is something that he very much is not, a girl who was raised by feral humans and has nothing but contempt for pets like John, and Martok himself, whose delusions of grandeur seem to be finally catching up with him.
Also, not for nothing, something in the woods has been killing people.
John has sixty days before Martok’s loan comes due to unravel the mystery of how humans wound up holding the wrong end of the domestication stick and find a way to turn Martok’s half-baked plans into profit enough to buy back his life, all while avoiding getting butchered by feral humans or having his head crushed by an angry gray. Easy peasy, right?
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Cleopatra reclaims her life from the myths that silenced her in this bold historical epic.
Cleopatra
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Cleopatra reclaims her life from the myths that silenced her in this bold historical epic. Speaking in her own voice, she reveals the strategist, mother, and ruler behind the legend, fighting to protect her children and her legacy. This #1 new release delivers a subversive and intimate portrait of power in the ancient world.
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Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife.
“Enchanting, smart, and subversive—this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece”—RF Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis
YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.
Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.
Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.
Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.
How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule.
Death will silence me no longer.
This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.
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A secret expedition for gold drives a group of men into the sub-Arctic wilderness of 1766, where greed and violence unravel every plan.
White River Crossing
Historical Thriller · Mystery · Thriller
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A secret expedition for gold drives a group of men into the sub-Arctic wilderness of 1766, where greed and violence unravel every plan. As ambition collapses under ice and isolation, one man faces a choice that will define his future. From the acclaimed author of The North Water, this novel delivers stark, cinematic historical fiction.
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A breathtaking and cinematic novel about the lust for gold and its bloody consequences, set in the unforgiving landscape of the sub-Arctic Canadian wilderness, from the acclaimed author of The North Water
A ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company in the winter of 1766 with a lump of gold, claiming that there is plenty more like it further north at a place called Ox Lake. The outpost’s chief factor, Magnus Norton, dreams of instant riches and launches a secret and perilous expedition to find the treasure and bring it back.
Led by a family of native guides, the party of prospectors includes Norton’s brutish deputy, John Shaw, and Thomas Hearn, the insular and intellectual first mate from the factory’s whaling sloop. During their long journey north, Shaw’s callousness and arrogance lead him to commit an act of sexual violence whose disastrous consequences will only fully emerge once they reach their final destination. There, amidst the bleak beauty of the Barren Grounds, as Norton’s carefully crafted plans begin to fall apart and the brutal arctic winter starts to descend, Hearn is forced to make a choice that will define his character and determine his future forever.
Utterly captivating, White River Crossing transports us back to the furthest edges of the eighteenth-century British empire where two radically different worlds—indigenous and European—collide with calamitous and deadly results.
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Ideal for readers looking for queer historical fantasy with a second-chance love story, demons, and a bloody monster hunt.
The Red Winter
Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Creature Feature
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Called “Charming, haunting, ambitious” by T. Kingfisher, this dark fantasy follows centuries-old monster-slayer Sebastian Grave, who hosts a demon and returns to France in 1785 to hunt the Beast of Gévaudan alongside his estranged lover. Ideal for readers looking for queer historical fantasy with a second-chance love story, demons, and a bloody monster hunt.
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A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.
In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake.
Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a long and bloody winter. Even with the help of his indwelling demon, Sarmodel – who takes payment in living hearts – it nearly cost him his life to bring the monster down.
Now, two decades later, Sebastian has been recalled to the hunt by Antoine Avenel d’Ocerne, an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian. Drawn by both the chance to finish the Beast for good and the promise of a reconciliation with Antoine, Sebastian cannot refuse.
But Gévaudan is not as he remembers it, and Sebastian’s unfinished business is everywhere he looks. Years of misery have driven the people to desperation, and France teeters on the edge of revolution. Sebastian’s arcane activities – not to mention his demonic counterpart – have also attracted the inquisitorial eye of the French clergy. And the Beast is poised to close his jaws around them all and plunge the continent into war.
Debut author Cameron Sullivan tears the heart out of history with this darkly entertaining retelling of the hunt for the Beast of Gévaudan. Lifting the veil on the hidden world behind our own, it reimagines the story of Europe, from Imperial Rome to Saint Jehanne d’Arc, the madness of Gilles de Rais and the first flickers of the French Revolution.
“An absolute feast of a book: rich, red, sinfully delicious. I've rarely been this satisfied—or this hungry for more.” —Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House
“So bloody good. The Red Winter is absolute ripper entertainment—miss it at your peril!” —Shelley Parker-Chan, bestselling author of She Who Became the Sun
“A gorgeous tangle of history and fresh-made myth. You'll eat this one up.” —Cassandra Khaw, bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“Charming, haunting, ambitious, and a great deal of fun.” —T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of A Sorceress Comes to Call
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