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A century apart, two children are imprisoned in the same attic, bound by secrets left behind.
The Attic Child
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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A century apart, two children are imprisoned in the same attic, bound by secrets left behind. As one struggles to remember who he was, the other searches for truth and belonging. The Attic Child is a haunting, emotionally rich novel of identity and history with 4.6 stars on Amazon and strong reader acclaim.
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A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.
Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret.
Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn’t bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of his family in Africa, even as he struggles to remember his mother’s face, and sometimes his real name . . .
1974: Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege whose fortunes have now changed, finds herself trapped in the same attic. Searching for a ray of light in the darkness of the attic, Lowra finds under the floorboards an old-fashioned pen, a porcelain doll, a beaded necklace, and a message carved on the wall, written in an unidentifiable language. Providing comfort for her when all hope is lost, these clues will lead her to uncover the secrets of the attic.
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Brilliant scientist Rosalind Franklin uncovers the structure of DNA, only to have her discovery taken by others.
Her Hidden Genius
Biographical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Brilliant scientist Rosalind Franklin uncovers the structure of DNA, only to have her discovery taken by others. Set in the fiercely competitive world of midcentury science, this historical novel explores ambition, betrayal, and resilience. With 4.4 stars on Amazon, it is praised for restoring credit to a woman history overlooked.
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"Brings to life Franklin's grit and spirit...an important contribution to the historical record." —The Washington Post
The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie!
She changed the world with her discovery. Three men took the credit.
Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider—brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets.
Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture—one more after thousands—she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her.
Then it finally happens—the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what unfolds next, Rosalind could have never predicted.
Marie Benedict's powerful new novel shines a light on a woman who sacrificed her life to discover the nature of our very DNA, a woman whose world-changing contributions were hidden by the men around her but whose relentless drive advanced our understanding of humankind.
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In two eras of occupied Paris, courage takes different forms.
Skylark: A Novel
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In two eras of occupied Paris, courage takes different forms. In 1664, an aspiring artist fights imprisonment and injustice. In 1939, a young doctor risks everything to protect his Jewish neighbors. Skylark weaves these parallel lives into a haunting story of resistance, survival, and the hidden bonds that transcend time from a New York Times bestselling author.
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Junie follows a sixteen-year-old enslaved girl in Civil War–era Alabama whose grief awakens her sister’s ghost.
Junie
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Junie follows a sixteen-year-old enslaved girl in Civil War–era Alabama whose grief awakens her sister’s ghost. As secrets surface and love offers a fragile promise of freedom, Junie must decide what liberation truly demands. This haunting debut blends history, magic, and emotional survival, earning acclaim as a Good Morning America Book Club pick.
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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • As the Civil War looms, a young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost in this “poignant story of love, family and friendship [that] celebrates the power of liberation” (People).
“An enrapturing tale of survival . . . Eckstine has poured a ton of heart into her characters.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The richly textured prose quickly pulled me into [Junie’s] treacherous yet magical world.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake
Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master’s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie.
When wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junie’s life, she commits a desperate act—one that rouses Minnie’s spirit from the grave, tethered to this world unless Junie can free her. She enlists the aid of Caleb, the guests’ coachman, and their friendship soon becomes something more. Yet as long-held truths begin to crumble, she realizes Bellereine is harboring dark and horrifying secrets that can no longer be ignored.
With time ticking down, Junie begins to push against the harsh current that has controlled her entire life. As she grapples with an increasingly unfamiliar world in which she has little control, she is forced to ask herself: When we choose love and liberation, what must we leave behind?
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A Brooklyn snowstorm brings together Richard, a solitary professor, Evelyn, a frightened immigrant seeking help, and Lucia, a Chilean academic with her own buried grief.
In the Midst of Winter
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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A Brooklyn snowstorm brings together Richard, a solitary professor, Evelyn, a frightened immigrant seeking help, and Lucia, a Chilean academic with her own buried grief. As their lives intersect, shared histories of violence, loss, and resilience surface, revealing the courage needed to claim love and belonging. Isabel Allende delivers a sweeping story of memory, justice, and home.
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New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People).
During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice.
As these three lives intertwine, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected, long overdue love. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice, the art of survival, and the essential nature of—and our need for—love.
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Geraldine Brooks reimagines the life of Mr.
March
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Geraldine Brooks reimagines the life of Mr. March from Little Women, tracing his journey into the Civil War as he leaves his family to serve the Union. Confronting brutal realities that test his ideals and reshape his marriage, March returns a changed man. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a richly detailed, deeply human portrait of love, conviction, and the cost of war.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord.
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks's place as a renowned author of historical fiction.
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Some homes call you back even when memory warns you away.
The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Historical Literary Fiction
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Some homes call you back even when memory warns you away. In 1967 Arkansas, Genevieve Charbonneau returns to the land of her childhood, guided by ghosts, folk magic, and a fragile hope for connection. As buried trauma surfaces alongside unexpected bonds, she must choose between flight and belonging. This Southern literary fantasy blends grief, resilience, and the quiet power of human and natural ties.
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Disguised by a name she found on a tombstone and accompanying a Vietnam vet she met in a graveyard, an unconventional young snake-handler who talks to the dead returns to the ghosts of her childhood home in 1967 Arkansas...
Readers of Delia Owens, Barbara Kingsolver, Kelly Mustian, and Quinn Connor will be captivated by this haunting Southern debut about found family, folk magic, the long shadow of trauma, the salvation of human connection, and the transcendent beauty of nature.
“India Hayford’s riveting debut is an exploration of tangled familial bonds, loss, love and the redemption of fierce womanhood. Captivating storytelling that is utterly unforgettable.” —Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series
Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she’s wandered throughout the South, escaping a mental hospital in Alabama, working for a Louisiana circus, and dancing at a hoochy-kootch in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she’s allowed her winding path to bring her to the site of her grandmother’s Arkansas farmhouse, a place hallowed in her memory.
She intends only to visit briefly – to pay respects to her buried loved ones and leave. But a chance meeting with a haunted young Vietnam vet reconnects her with the remnants of a family she thought long gone, and their union becomes a catalyst for change and salvation. An abused woman and her daughters develop the courage to fight back, a ghost finds the path away from life, and a sanctimonious predator becomes the prey. In the process, Genevieve must choose between her longing for meaningful connection after years as an outsider and her equally excruciating impulse to run.
Written by a naturalist and set on the land where her family roots stretch back two centuries, The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree is a haunting story about letting go and the things we leave behind, the power of names, and the ties that bind. It is both harrowing and triumphant, a visceral Southern debut as otherworldly and beautiful as it is unflinching and wry.
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with an extraordinary sense of smell, a gift that becomes an obsession as he masters the art of perfumery in eighteenth-century France.
Perfume
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Thriller · Historical Literary Fiction · Suspense
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with an extraordinary sense of smell, a gift that becomes an obsession as he masters the art of perfumery in eighteenth-century France. Drawn toward the elusive scent of innocence, he descends into a chilling pursuit that blurs genius and monstrosity. An international bestseller, Perfume remains a landmark of dark, intoxicating storytelling.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume”—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
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When forbidden love blooms between two Cypriot teenagers divided by war, a fig tree bears witness to their joy and sorrow.
The Island of Missing Trees
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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When forbidden love blooms between two Cypriot teenagers divided by war, a fig tree bears witness to their joy and sorrow. Years later, their daughter in London uncovers the tangled roots of her family’s past. Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees is a tender, lyrical story of love, loss, and belonging.
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Some stories take root even when the world is burning.
In a taverna on a divided island, Greek Cypriot Kostas and Turkish Cypriot Defne fall in love beneath a fig tree that grows through the roof. The tree bears witness as war tears their world apart and the lovers vanish into the chaos. Decades later, a botanist returns to Cyprus, still searching for what he lost.
In London, a young girl named Ada tends a fig tree that connects her to a homeland she has never seen and a history she does not yet understand.
Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees is a luminous, poetic novel about love and loss, nature and memory, and the fragile roots that bind us across generations.
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Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction that blends women’s ambition, reinvention, French history, and a dual-timeline story.
The Champagne Letters
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Called “sheer, sparkling perfection” by Susanna Kearsley, The Champagne Letters follows Barbe-Nicole Clicquot as she fights to build her champagne business in Napoleonic France while, two centuries later, newly divorced Natalie Taylor finds inspiration in Clicquot’s letters, with a 3.9-star average from more than 8,300 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction that blends women’s ambition, reinvention, French history, and a dual-timeline story.
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Mme. Clicquot builds her legacy as the maker of France’s best champagne while, in the future, a modern divorcée looks to her letters for inspiration in this vibrant dual-timeline historical fiction novel that is “sheer, sparkling perfection” (Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author).
Reims, France, 1805: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot has just lost her beloved husband but is determined to pursue their dream of creating the premier champagne house in France, now named for her new identity as a widow: Veuve Clicquot. With the Russians poised to invade, competitors fighting for her customers, and the Napoleonic court politics complicating matters, she must set herself apart if she, and her business, are to survive.
In present day Chicago, broken from her divorce, Natalie Taylor runs away to Paris. In a book stall by the Seine, Natalie finds a collection of the Widow Clicquot’s published letters and uses them as inspiration to step out of her comfort zone and create a new, empowered life for herself. But when her Parisian escape takes a shocking turn, she’s forced to make a difficult choice. Should she accept her losses and return home, or fight for the future she’s only dreamed about?
“The Champagne Letters, which sparkles like the finest champagne, will inspire you to reach both for a glass of bubbly—and for the things you really want out of life” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).
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When Helen, her mother, and her grandmother reunite to care for her dying brother, old griefs and long-held silences resurface.
The Blackwater Lightship
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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When Helen, her mother, and her grandmother reunite to care for her dying brother, old griefs and long-held silences resurface. In 1990s Ireland, six lives entwine through love, anger, and reconciliation. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship is a quiet, powerful story of family, forgiveness, and the courage to begin again.
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In coastal Ireland in the early 1990s, three generations of women gather under one roof for the first time in years. Helen, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora have lived in silence and distance, each harboring old wounds that time has not softened. Now, as Helen’s brother Declan lies dying of AIDS, they must face both the weight of their past and the fragility of the present.
Together with Declan’s friends, they share laughter, grief, and long-buried truths, rediscovering what family can mean even at the edge of loss.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship is a luminous, compassionate novel about forgiveness, connection, and the power of love to bridge the unspoken.
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From 1920s India to modern England, the story of Anahita Chaval and her lost love intertwines with a young actress and a man seeking his family’s truth.
The Midnight Rose
Literary Fiction · Romance · Historical Literary Fiction
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From 1920s India to modern England, the story of Anahita Chaval and her lost love intertwines with a young actress and a man seeking his family’s truth. Secrets buried for generations rise again in Lucinda Riley’s The Midnight Rose, a breathtaking saga of love, loss, and destiny from the author of The Orchid House.
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In the glittering courts of 1920s India, young Anahita Chaval rises from noble poverty to become the confidante of Princess Indira. Her journey carries her from the jeweled palaces of the maharajas to the misted hills of England, where she meets Donald Astbury, heir to a great estate shadowed by secrets. Their forbidden connection will echo across generations.
Ninety years later, film star Rebecca Bradley arrives at the crumbling Astbury Hall and crosses paths with Ari Malik, Anahita’s great-grandson, who is searching for the truth of his family’s past. Together they uncover a story of love, loss, and destiny that defied time itself.
From #1 international bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Midnight Rose is a sweeping, heart-wrenching tale of passion and legacy.
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