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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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Reincarnation Blues follows Milo, who has lived nearly ten thousand lives in pursuit of wisdom, meaning, and one impossible love.
Reincarnation Blues
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Reincarnation Blues follows Milo, who has lived nearly ten thousand lives in pursuit of wisdom, meaning, and one impossible love. With only five chances left before oblivion, he keeps returning to existence for Death herself, his constant companion between lives. Funny, tender, and cosmic in scope, this novel blends romance and philosophy in a darkly enchanting exploration of existence by Michael Poore.
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A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself.
“This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life.”—Chicago Review of Books
First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try?
Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to “get it right.” Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything.
Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn’t make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her.
More than just Milo’s lover throughout his countless layovers in the Afterlife, Suzie is literally his reason for living—as he dives into one new existence after another, praying for the day he’ll never have to leave her side again.
But Reincarnation Blues is more than a great love story: Every journey from cradle to grave offers Milo more pieces of the great cosmic puzzle—if only he can piece them together in time to finally understand what it means to be part of something bigger than infinity. Darkly enchanting and wisely hilarious, Michael Poore’s Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking.
Because it’s more than Milo and Suzie’s story. It’s your story, too.
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London, 1942.
Nineteen Steps
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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London, 1942. Amid air raids and uncertainty, eighteen-year-old Nellie Morris clings to family, routine, and hope. When she meets Ray, an American airman, the promise of a bigger life begins to take shape—until a single devastating night shatters everything she knows. Inspired by real family history, this is a tender, emotional story of love, loss, and the resilience it takes to keep going when the world falls apart.
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The New York Times bestseller from iconic Emmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN: Nineteen Steps -- soon to be a feature film on Netflix!
"My inner history-loving teenage geek clapped her hands in ecstasy at the thought of a historical novel penned by Enola Holmes, and she wasn't disappointed!”—Kate Quinn
Love blooms in the darkest days…
It’s 1942, and air raid sirens continue to wail around London. Eighteen-year-old Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her.
After a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman stationed nearby, she becomes enchanted with the idea of a broader world. Just as she begins to embrace an exciting new life with Ray, a terrible incident occurs during an air raid one evening, tearing her world apart. But when it seems all hope is lost, Nellie finds that, against all odds, love and happiness can triumph.
Nineteen Steps is a deeply affecting, mesmerizing page-turner inspired by the author’s family history. An epic story of longing, loss, and secrets, Millie Bobby Brown’s propulsive debut introduces an unforgettable, brave young woman and boldly portrays the strength in the power of love.
“Inspired by my Nanny Ruth, this book is very personal and close to my heart. I grew up listening to stories about her time living through the war. I’m honored to keep her story alive.”—Millie Bobby Brown
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When his human suddenly falls apart, S.T., a domesticated crow, ventures into a ruined Seattle where humanity is disappearing fast.
Hollow Kingdom
Dystopian · Speculative Fiction
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When his human suddenly falls apart, S.T., a domesticated crow, ventures into a ruined Seattle where humanity is disappearing fast. With only his dog companion and half learned TV wisdom, he navigates zombies, chaos, and unexpected courage. A darkly funny, tender apocalypse novel by Kira Jane Buxton that blends survival, grief, and hope.
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A finalist for the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor!
"The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead" in this big-hearted, boundlessly beautiful romp through the Apocalypse, where a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive Seattle's zombie problem (Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author).
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®.
But when Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, S.T. starts to think something's not quite right. His tried-and-true remedies—from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis—fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he suddenly discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. Local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of Seattle's dangerous new predators.
Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a cowardly crow whose only knowledge of the world comes from TV.
What could possibly go wrong?
Includes a Reading Group Guide.
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When a breakthrough energy source triggers earthquakes and tectonic disasters, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team race to stop catastrophe.
Zero Hour
Men's Fiction · Thriller · Action Thriller · Suspense
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When a breakthrough energy source triggers earthquakes and tectonic disasters, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team race to stop catastrophe. With deadly machines hidden deep underground and beneath the sea, time is running out to prevent global destruction. A high octane techno thriller from Clive Cussler and Graham Brown in the bestselling NUMA Files series.
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Clive Cussler, author of the bestselling Dirk Pitt series, and his co-author, Graham Brown, send hero Kurt Austin into the heart of the storm in the action-packed NUMA Files series.
A new energy source holds the promise to change the world. If it doesn't kill it first.
It's called zero point energy - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however . . . until one scientist does.
The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren't able to find and destroy them - and soon - the world will be on the threshold of a new era of catastrophe and unchecked volcanism.
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Ciara Fay makes a split second decision to leave her marriage, driving away with her daughters and nowhere safe to land.
Nesting
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Contemporary Fiction
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Ciara Fay makes a split second decision to leave her marriage, driving away with her daughters and nowhere safe to land. As she navigates fear, doubt, and a fragile new community, she must learn to trust her own reality. A tense, compassionate debut by Roisín O’Donnell about emotional abuse, resilience, and choosing freedom. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize.
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In this beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe—and that this time, when she leaves, she must stay away. On the surface, she has a perfect life: her sometimes kind and attentive husband, Ryan, is a good provider from a nice family, and they have another baby on the way. But he also monitors Ciara's every move, flies into unpredictable rages where he convinces her she can do nothing right, and has isolated her from work, friends, and her beloved family. Was fleeing the right thing to do? With no job and no support, Ciara struggles to provide a sense of normalcy for her little girls. Facing a broken housing system, they move into a hotel room on a floor reserved for women like her, eating takeout, washing their clothes in the bathroom sink, and building a community with the other residents. Ryan, meanwhile, wages a relentless campaign to win her back, and Ciara wavers. He never hit her, after all, and don't the girls need a stable home? Suspenseful and all-consuming, Roisín O'Donnell’s extraordinary debut creates a devastating portrait of gaslighting and emotional abuse. Ultimately, Nesting is a triumphant story about self-determination, family, and resilience. Longlisted for the Women's Prize • An Instant Bestseller in Ireland and the UK
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Ideal for readers looking for character-driven fiction about grief, escape, family connections, and transformative journeys.
Call of the Camino
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Call of the Camino follows Reina Watkins and Isabelle Vidal as they walk Spain's Camino de Santiago a generation apart, each carrying circumstances that send her onto the legendary pilgrimage, with a 4.4-star average from more than 28,600 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for character-driven fiction about grief, escape, family connections, and transformative journeys.
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From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes a deeply moving novel following the transformative journeys of two women walking entwined paths on a legendary route across Europe a generation apart.
Reina Watkins lost her father when she was eight. Seventeen years later, she still carries that grief. When her budding journalism career takes an unexpected turn, it leads her to the ancient five-hundred-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain. Now she finds herself embarking on the same pilgrimage that her father made at her age, unaware of how profoundly it will change her.
Back in 1997, Isabelle Vidal is a teenager on the run. Fleeing from her boarding school, she heads straight for the Way of Saint James. She’s heard the Camino will provide. And so it does, in the form of a handsome young American and the promise of a new life. But it could all fall apart if her troubles catch up with her.
One woman is coming to grips with her past; the other is grasping for her future. But as each treads the same hallowed trail, it will knot their destinies together in a most miraculous way.
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In 1715 London, Thomas True arrives with a dangerous secret and is drawn into the hidden world of the molly houses.
The Betrayal of Thomas True
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+
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In 1715 London, Thomas True arrives with a dangerous secret and is drawn into the hidden world of the molly houses. When murder exposes a betrayer, Gabriel Griffin risks everything to protect their community and a forbidden love. A brutal historical thriller where secrecy, devotion, and survival collide beneath the city’s streets.
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The only sin is betrayal…
It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses.
Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the molly's stoic guard. When a young man is found murdered, he realises there is a rat amongst them, betraying their secrets to a pair of murderous Justices.
Can Gabriel unmask the traitor before they hang? Can he save hapless Thomas from peril, and their own forbidden love?
Set amidst the buried streets of Georgian London, The Betrayal of Thomas True is a brutal and devastating thriller, where love must overcome evil, and the only true sin is betrayal…
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This will appeal to readers who want literary historical fiction centered on displacement, resistance, family, and political awakening.
Against the Loveless World
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Social/Political Commentary
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Called “beautiful...urgent” by The New York Times, Against the Loveless World follows Nahr, a Palestinian refugee born in Kuwait, as exile, poverty, war, and love carry her through Kuwait, Jordan, and Palestine before she recounts her life from solitary confinement, with a 4.5-star average from more than 33,700 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want literary historical fiction centered on displacement, resistance, family, and political awakening.
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Arab American Book Award Winner
2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist
2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner
Longlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize
“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds for us.” —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
In this “beautiful...urgent” novel (The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East.
As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the seventies to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Nahr’s subversive humor and moral ambiguity will resonate with fans of My Sister, The Serial Killer, and her dark, contemporary struggle places her as the perfect sister to Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties.
Written with Susan Abulhawa’s distinctive “richly detailed, beautiful, and resonant” (Publishers Weekly) prose, this powerful novel presents a searing, darkly funny, and wholly unique portrait of a Palestinian woman who refuses to be a victim.
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A rabies-like virus with a one-hour incubation period sends society into collapse as a pediatrician races to save her pregnant friend before time runs out.
Survivor Song
Dystopian · Psychological Fiction
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A rabies-like virus with a one-hour incubation period sends society into collapse as a pediatrician races to save her pregnant friend before time runs out. Quarantines fail, fear spreads, and every mile carries new dangers. Survivor Song has earned 4.1 stars on Amazon, with Stephen King calling it “absolutely riveting.”
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A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
“Absolutely riveting.” — Stephen King
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government's emergency protocols are faltering.
Dr. Ramola "Rams" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed—viciously attacked by an infected neighbor—and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child.
Natalie’s fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares—terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink.
Paul Tremblay once again demonstrates his mastery in this chilling and all-too-plausible novel that will leave readers racing through the pages . . . and shake them to their core.
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On a remote Australian island, a lighthouse keeper and his wife make a devastating choice after discovering a baby washed ashore.
The Light Between Oceans
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
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On a remote Australian island, a lighthouse keeper and his wife make a devastating choice after discovering a baby washed ashore. Love, grief, and moral conviction collide as their decision ripples far beyond the sea. The Light Between Oceans is a New York Times bestselling novel praised for its haunting exploration of right, wrong, and loss.
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The spectacular New York Times bestseller and major motion picture about a lighthouse keeper and his wife is "a beautifully delineated tale of love and loss, right and wrong, and what we will do for the happiness of those most dear" (The Boston Globe).
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
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Set in 1969 Maine, The Singing Trees follows a grieving young artist determined to escape her past and claim her future.
The Singing Trees
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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Set in 1969 Maine, The Singing Trees follows a grieving young artist determined to escape her past and claim her future. As Annalisa Mancuso pursues her calling in a vibrant New England art scene, an unexpected love forces her to confront loss, ambition, and a devastating lie. From bestselling author Boo Walker, a poignant story of forgiveness and second chances.
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A young artist forges a path of self-discovery in an enriching novel about forgiving the past and embracing second chances, from the bestselling author of An Unfinished Story.
Maine, 1969. After losing her parents in a car accident, aspiring artist Annalisa Mancuso lives with her grandmother and their large Italian family in the stifling factory town of Payton Mills. Inspired by her mother, whose own artistic dreams disappeared in a damaged marriage, Annalisa is dedicated only to painting. Closed off to love, and driven as much by her innate talent as she is the disillusionment of her past, Annalisa just wants to come into her own.
The first step is leaving Payton Mills and everything it represents. The next, the inspiring opportunities in the city of Portland and a thriving New England art scene where Annalisa hopes to find her voice. But she meets Thomas, an Ivy League student whose attentions—and troubled family—upend her pursuits in ways she never imagined possible. As their relationship deepens, Annalisa must balance her dreams against an unexpected love. Until the unraveling of an unforgivable lie.
For Annalisa, opening herself up to life and to love is a risk. It might also be the chance she needs to finally become the person and the artist she’s meant to be.
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