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Set during a tense Cape Cod summer, this literary family drama follows two adult siblings and their unraveling father as long-buried secrets come to light.
Little Monsters
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Set during a tense Cape Cod summer, this literary family drama follows two adult siblings and their unraveling father as long-buried secrets come to light. Ambition, dependence, and loyalty collide inside a small, volatile household. Little Monsters is a national bestseller with 4.1 stars on Amazon and more than 18,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A National Bestseller!
“Juicy…simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open.” —The Washington Post * “So alluring…I raced happily through the pages.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Compulsively readable.” —Vogue * “An absolutely captivating read.” —Elin Hilderbrand
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets.
Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings’ lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother’s goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works.
As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he’s determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family—Steph, who doesn’t make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit.
Set in the fraught summer of 2016, Little Monsters is a “smart, page-flipping novel…[with] shades of Succession” (The Boston Globe) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes.
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Born with a curse that erases magic, Erik grows up hidden and unwanted in a world defined by spellcraft.
The Ironlight
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Coming of Age · Sword and Sorcery
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Born with a curse that erases magic, Erik grows up hidden and unwanted in a world defined by spellcraft. When a legendary mage offers him escape, he steps into danger, discovery, and self-determination. The Ironlight is a moving coming-of-age fantasy about identity, freedom, and finding meaning beyond fear. Rated 4.6 stars on Amazon.
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Erik has spent his life locked away, tormented by his family and burdened by a curse that neutralizes the magic around him; and in a world where magic is the way of life, his very existence feels like a mistake. But when a mage of legend arrives in his city, Erik's fate takes an unexpected turn.
Under his guidance, Erik will enter a world of extraordinary creatures, ancient magic, and the tantalizing promise of freedom. With the help of people from all walks of life, he will have to forge his own path under the embrace of uncertainty in order to discover the joy and meaning that have long eluded him.
The Ironlight is a captivating coming-of-age fantasy that blends magical wonder with poignant emotional depth, inviting readers on a journey of self-discovery amid an epic, unforgettable world.
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In Ellerie County, casseroles are how people grieve and heal.
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In Ellerie County, casseroles are how people grieve and heal. When longtime funeral cook Esther Larson faces losing her home, her granddaughter Iris and a grieving newcomer find unexpected connection through food, family, and community. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County is a warm, hopeful novel about belonging, forgiveness, and staying when others leave. Rated 4.2 stars on Amazon.
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Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together in this uplifting novel for readers of The Chicken Sisters.
Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the “funeral ladies,” she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed—it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can’t fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days.
Iris, Esther’s whip-smart Gen Z granddaughter, would do anything for her family and her community. As she watches her friends and family move out of their lakeside town onto bigger and better things, Iris wonders why she feels so left behind in the place she is desperate to make her home. But when Cooper Welsh shows up, she finally starts to feel like she’s found the missing piece of her puzzle.
Cooper is dealing with becoming a legal guardian to his younger half-sister after his beloved stepmother dies. While their celebrity-chef father is focused on his booming career and top-ranked television show, Cooper is still hurting from a public tragedy he witnessed last year as a paramedic and finding it hard to cope. With Iris in the gorgeous Ellerie County, though, he hopes he might finally find the home he’s been looking for.
It doesn’t seem like a community cookbook could possibly solve their problems, especially one where casseroles have their own section and cream of chicken soup mix is the most frequently used ingredient. But when you mix the can-do spirit of Midwestern grandmothers with the stubborn hope of a boy raised by food plus a dash of long-awaited forgiveness—things might just turn out okay.
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In 1991 Georgia, Dina’s life is shattered by bride kidnapping as the Soviet Union collapses.
The Valley Between Us
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In 1991 Georgia, Dina’s life is shattered by bride kidnapping as the Soviet Union collapses. In 2018, Callie escapes heartbreak and rigid routines for a mountain internship that exposes painful family truths. Their intertwined journeys explore trauma, resilience, faith, and healing across generations. This moving novel has earned 4.5 stars on Amazon and strong reader acclaim.
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"I read 26+ books a year and this is the best book I have read in several years. Yes, it's THAT GOOD!"-- Glenn, Goodreads review
This gripping novel follows two women— a young Soviet college student whose life is upended by the ancient practice of bride kidnapping, and a millennial American bound by her crippling sensory processing issues— and weaves their stories together in a riveting tale of love and resilience.
1991: The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse when 20 year-old Dina comes face-to-face with the ancient Caucasus tradition of bride kidnapping. The life she had planned is torn out from under her feet and she is forced to dig deep inside to find the strength to survive her new harsh reality.
2018: Callie keeps her life as predictable and organized as possible— Dr. Paekl says that's the best way to keep a handle on her sensory processing issues. And Callie always listens to Dr. Paekl. So, no surprises— daily run in Golden Gate Park at 6:20 am, oatmeal and a banana for breakfast, the thermostat always set at exactly 68 degrees. But a break-up with her long-time boyfriend and frustration in her high-stress job pushes her to do something uncharacteristically risky—take a leave of absence from work and travel to Georgia for a three-month internship at a mountain guesthouse. What she thinks will be merely a summer adventure ends up completely shifting her world, making her reexamine who she is, what she believes, and who she loves. While at the guesthouse, Callie uncovers a shocking family secret that could bring everything crumbling down around her.
The Valley Between Us is a heart-wrenching tale of deep friendships, faith, first loves, trauma, and, ultimately, healing.
Fans of The Nightingale or All the Light We Cannot See will be captivated by this powerful story.
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Clara Kelley enters Andrew Carnegie’s household under a stolen identity, hiding poverty and ambition behind a maid’s apron.
Carnegie’s Maid
Biographical Fiction · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Clara Kelley enters Andrew Carnegie’s household under a stolen identity, hiding poverty and ambition behind a maid’s apron. Her intelligence earns his trust, but affection and secrets threaten her future and her family’s survival. This richly imagined historical novel explores power, class, and the unseen influence of women, with 4.4 stars on Amazon and widespread book club acclaim.
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The USA Today Bestseller
From the bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room comes a mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that asks what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the woman who shares her name has vanished, and assuming her identity just might get Clara some money to send back home.
Clara must rely on resolve as strong as the steel Pittsburgh is becoming famous for and an uncanny understanding of business, attributes that quickly gain her Carnegie's trust. But she still can't let her guard down, not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer. Revealing her past might ruin her future—and her family's.
With captivating insight and heart, Carnegie's Maid is a book of fascinating 19th century historical fiction. Discover the story of one brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie's transformation from ruthless industrialist to the world's first true philanthropist.
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Good for readers who want emotional women’s fiction with family secrets, second chances, and a scenic lakeside setting.
The Choice I Made
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Called “Phenomenal!” by a Goodreads reviewer, The Choice I Made follows Julie as she returns to her family’s Wisconsin resort, where a runaway teen and hidden letters threaten to expose a secret that could damage her family, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,300 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want emotional women’s fiction with family secrets, second chances, and a scenic lakeside setting.
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I don’t know what I’d expected to find. Pictures of her mother, maybe, or a locket. Instead, there was a letter. My breath came fast as I read the first few sentences…
When Julie’s mother falls ill, she has no choice but to return to her parents’ Wisconsin resort, Wood Violet, for the summer. Away from the pressures of city life, Julie also hopes the trip will give her and husband Tristan the chance to heal after the heartbreak of another miscarriage.
Back home, surrounded by nature and old friends, Julie starts to feel a sense of calm she’d thought she’d lost forever. But her fragile peace is shattered when she stumbles upon an eighteen-year-old girl hiding out in an abandoned cabin.
The girl, Margaret, seems lost in the world and Julie wants to help her. But when she finds the letters in her backpack, Julie realizes she isn’t telling the whole truth about why she’s here. And if Margaret finds what she’s looking for, it could expose a long-buried secret that could destroy Julie’s family’s reputation and tear all their lives apart…
A beautiful and emotional story about love, betrayal and finding your true home, from the bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper. Fans of Mary Ellen Taylor, Barbara O’Neal and This is Not How it Ends will adore Cynthia Ellingsen’s captivating novel.
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Good for readers who like literary comedy, bittersweet romance, and messy midlife reinvention.
Less
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller, Less follows failing novelist Arthur Less as he travels the world to avoid his ex-boyfriend’s wedding, stumbling through literary events, mishaps, romance, and the loves he cannot quite escape, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 40,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like literary comedy, bittersweet romance, and messy midlife reinvention.
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A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award
Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.
"I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review
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This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction centered on family control, adolescence, faith, and political change.
Purple Hibiscus
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Fifteen-year-old Kambili lives in Nigeria under the strict control of her wealthy, fanatically religious father until political upheaval sends her and her brother to stay with their aunt. In a home filled with conversation and laughter, Kambili begins to experience a life beyond her father's authority, with a 4.2-star average from more than 151,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction centered on family control, adolescence, faith, and political change.
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One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker
From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists**
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating.
As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.
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After losing her husband, a woman receives an unexpected gift: twelve books and twelve letters to guide her through a year of grief.
This Book Made Me Think of You
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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After losing her husband, a woman receives an unexpected gift: twelve books and twelve letters to guide her through a year of grief. As reading reconnects her to the world and to herself, new friendships and possibilities emerge. From bestselling author Libby Page, this heartfelt novel celebrates love, loss, and the quiet magic of books.
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A woman receives an unexpected gift from the man she loved and lost—a year of books, one for every month—launching a reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again in this glimmering and heart-stopping novel.
Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart…
When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn’t come as more of a shock. Partly because she can’t remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. But mainly because Joe died five months ago....
When she goes to pick up the present, Alfie, the bookshop owner with kind eyes, explains the gift—twelve carefully chosen books with handwritten letters from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him.
At first Tilly can’t imagine sinking into a fictional world, but Joe’s tender words convince her to try, and something remarkable happens—Tilly becomes immersed in the pages, and a new chapter begins to unfold in her own life. Monthly trips to the bookstore—and heartfelt conversations with Alfie—give Tilly the comfort she craves and the courage to set out on a series of reading-inspired adventures that take her around the world. But as she begins to share her journey with others, her story—like a book—becomes more than her own.
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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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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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Set in post–Cultural Revolution China, this sweeping novel follows two women shaped by sacrifice and survival.
And The Ancestors Sing
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Set in post–Cultural Revolution China, this sweeping novel follows two women shaped by sacrifice and survival. From a forced rural marriage to the brutal choices of a teenage migrant in Shanghai, their lives reflect decades of upheaval and resilience. A multigenerational story of family, ambition, and the unbreakable pull of home.
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Spanning decades of seismic change in post-Cultural Revolution China, And The Ancestors Sing is a sweeping, multigenerational novel of resilience, sacrifice, and the unbreakable pull of home, perfect for fans of Pachinko and The Island of Sea Women.
In 1978, as the Cultural Revolution fades into history, Lei is bartered away into marriage for two cartons of cigarettes and a handful of eggs. She finds herself in the unfamiliar village of her new husband where she is met with indifference. When a disaster upends their world, Lei and her husband are forced to join China’s vast wave of city-bound, rural migrants, leaving behind children whom they may never see again.
Sixteen-year-old LuLu arrives in Shanghai with nothing but ambition. Denied a factory job and determined to keep her family from starving, she turns to sex work, navigating the dangers of the city’s underbelly with sharp wit and a fierce will to survive. When a powerful client offers her a chance at security, LuLu faces an impossible choice: seize a future that could lift her family from poverty, or risk everything for a life on her own terms.
Immersive, evocative, and impeccably detailed, And The Ancestors Sing is a sweeping, multigenerational story of sacrifice, survival, and the unbreakable pull of home.
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