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Out of the Easy follows seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine in 1950s New Orleans, where the French Quarter’s glamour hides dangerous secrets.
Out of The Easy
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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Out of the Easy follows seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine in 1950s New Orleans, where the French Quarter’s glamour hides dangerous secrets. Determined to escape her reputation as a brothel madam’s daughter, Josie becomes entangled in a mysterious death that forces her to choose between ambition, loyalty, and truth. This atmospheric novel explores identity, class, and the cost of freedom.
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“A haunting peek at the life of a teenage girl in 1950s New Orleans.”--Entertainment Weekly
It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street.
Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test.
With characters as captivating as those in her internationally bestselling novel Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys skillfully creates a rich story of secrets, lies, and the haunting reminder that decisions can shape our destiny.
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A strong match for readers drawn to prehistoric historical fiction, survival, cultural conflict, healing, and found family bonds.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · Women's Fiction
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read, The Clan of the Cave Bear follows Ayla, a young girl left alone after a natural disaster, as she is taken in by the Clan, learns their ways, and becomes a threat to a brutal future leader, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 13,700 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to prehistoric historical fiction, survival, cultural conflict, healing, and found family bonds.
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This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.
A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.
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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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Across fifty years in London, two women navigate love, art, and the disorienting force of motherhood.
The Hand That First Held Mine
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Across fifty years in London, two women navigate love, art, and the disorienting force of motherhood. Lexie Sinclair forges a daring life in post-war Soho, while new mother Elina struggles to recognize herself in the present day. As memories surface and secrets entwine their stories, The Hand That First Held Mine reveals how lives are shaped by connection and loss. A tender, haunting novel by Maggie O’Farrell.
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From the best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.
"An exquisitely sensual tale of love, motherhood, and other forms of madness, The Hand That First Held Mine will unsettle, move, and haunt you." —Emma Donoghue, author of Room
Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself.
Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own.
Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. She doesn't recognize herself: she finds herself walking outside with no shoes; she goes to the restaurant for lunch at nine in the morning; she can't recall the small matter of giving birth. But for her boyfriend, Ted, fatherhood is calling up lost memories, with images he cannot place.
As Ted's memories become more disconcerting and more frequent, it seems that something might connect these two stories—these two women—something that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation.
Praised by The Washington Post as a “breathtaking, heart-breaking creation,” The Hand That First Held Mine is a gorgeous and tenderly wrought story about the ways in which love and beauty bind us together. It is a gorgeous inquiry into the ways we make and unmake our lives, who we know ourselves to be, and how even our most accidental legacies connect us.
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Widowed photographer Cathryn McAllister travels to Iceland for a simple assignment and finds her carefully controlled life unraveling amid glaciers and glass.
The Color of Ice
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Widowed photographer Cathryn McAllister travels to Iceland for a simple assignment and finds her carefully controlled life unraveling amid glaciers and glass. Drawn to an enigmatic artist, she confronts passion, risk, and the possibility of loving deeply again. Set against Iceland’s stark beauty, The Color of Ice is an evocative novel of reinvention and choice from award-winning author Barbara Linn Probst.
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"Exquisite" (Lisa Barr, New York Times best-selling author of Woman on Fire) and "utterly engrossing" (Katherine Gray, cohost of the Netflix series Blown Away), The Color of Ice will wrap you in its spell, all the way to its unforgettable ending.
Set among the glaciers and thermal lagoons of Iceland, and framed by the magical art of glassblowing, The Color of Ice is the breathtaking story of a woman's awakening to passion, beauty, and the redemptive power of unconditional love.
The stunning new novel by the author of award-winning novels Queen of the Owls and The Sound Between the Notes . . .
Cathryn McAllister, a freelance photographer, travels to Iceland for a photo shoot with an enigmatic artist who wants to capture the country's iconic blue icebergs in glass. Her plan is to head out, when the job is done, on a carefully curated "best of Iceland" solo vacation. Widowed young, Cathryn has raised two children while achieving professional success. If the price of that efficiency has been the dimming of her fire—well, she hasn't let herself think about it. Until now.
Bit by bit, Cathryn abandons her itinerary to remain with Mack, the glassblower, who awakens a hunger for all the things she's told herself she doesn't need anymore. Passion. Vulnerability. Risk. Cathryn finds herself torn between the life—and self—she's come to know and the new world Mack offers. Commitments await her back in America. But if she walks away, she'll lose this chance to feel deeply again. Just when her path seems clear, she's faced with a shocking discovery—and a devastating choice that shows her what love really is.
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Hired to archive a famed photographer’s legacy, Kate Aitken becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding Miranda Brand’s death.
Take Me Apart
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller · Women's Fiction
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Hired to archive a famed photographer’s legacy, Kate Aitken becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding Miranda Brand’s death. As diaries surface and rumors sharpen, Kate’s own secrets blur the line between curiosity and obsession. Drawn deeper into a family defined by ambition and control, she risks unraveling herself entirely. Take Me Apart is a dark, atmospheric psychological thriller praised by major critics and marking a striking debut from Sara Sligar.
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"A juicy thriller" (Entertainment Weekly) ·"Absorbing" (USA Today) · "Dark and thoughtful" (Washington Post) · "Gratifying" (Wall Street Journal) · "Sun-soaked noir" (LA Review of Books)
A spellbinding novel of psychological suspense that follows a young archivist's obsession with her subject's mysterious death as it threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity.
When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son Theo hires the ex-journalist Kate Aitken to archive his mother's work and personal effects.
As Kate sorts through the vast maze of material and contends with the vicious rumors and shocking details of Miranda's private life, she pieces together a portrait of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood, and marriage. But Kate has secrets of her own, including a growing attraction to the enigmatic Theo, and when she stumbles across Miranda's diary, her curiosity spirals into a dangerous obsession.
A seductive, twisting tale of psychological suspense, Take Me Apart draws readers into the lives of two darkly magnetic young women pinned down by secrets and lies. Sara Sligar's electrifying debut is a chilling, thought-provoking take on art, illness, and power, from a spellbinding new voice in suspense.
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In Mongrels, a boy grows up on the margins, traveling the back roads of the South with an aunt and uncle who live by secrets and survival.
Mongrels
Horror · Literary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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In Mongrels, a boy grows up on the margins, traveling the back roads of the South with an aunt and uncle who live by secrets and survival. As he waits to learn what he truly is, loyalty and belonging collide with violence and change. Stephen Graham Jones delivers an award finalist coming of age horror novel praised by Tor.com and Book Riot.
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FINALIST FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE THIS IS HORROR AWARD * HONORABLE MENTION, LOCUS AWARDS * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY TOR.COM AND BOOK RIOT
A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.
He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixed blood, neither this nor that. The boy at the center of Mongrels must decide if he belongs on the road with his aunt and uncle, or if he fits with the people on the other side of the tracks.
For ten years, he and his family have lived a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes--always on the move across the South to stay one step ahead of the law. But the time is drawing near when Darren and Libby will finally know if their nephew is like them or not. And the close calls they've been running from for so long are catching up fast now. Everything is about to change.
A compelling and fascinating journey, Mongrels alternates between past and present to create an unforgettable portrait of a boy trying to understand his family and his place in a complex and unforgiving world. A smart and innovative story-- funny, bloody, raw, and real--told in a rhythmic voice full of heart, Mongrels is a deeply moving, sometimes grisly, novel that illuminates the challenges and tender joys of a life beyond the ordinary in a bold and imaginative new way.
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In The Ninth Configuration, a Marine psychiatrist takes command of a secluded military asylum where decorated officers display disturbing and possibly deliberate madness.
The Ninth Configuration
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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In The Ninth Configuration, a Marine psychiatrist takes command of a secluded military asylum where decorated officers display disturbing and possibly deliberate madness. As Colonel Kane searches for truth, faith, and reason collide inside the walls of Center Eighteen. William Peter Blatty delivers a haunting psychological novel that inspired an acclaimed Golden Globe winning film and remains a cult classic.
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Hidden away in a brooding Gothic manor in the deep woods is Center Eighteen, a secret military "rest camp" currently housing twenty-seven inmates, all officers who have succumbed to a sudden outbreak of mental illness. Have the men truly lost their minds, are they only pretending to be insane to avoid combat, or is some more sinister conspiracy at work?
Desperate for answers, the Pentagon has placed a brilliant Marine psychiatrist in charge of the base and its deranged occupants. A man of deep faith and compassion, Colonel Kane hopes to uncover the root of the men's bizarre obsessions. But as Center Eighteen descends into chaos, Kane finds the greatest challenge may be his own buried demons. . . .
A stunning meditation on God's existence that was the basis of an acclaimed Golden Globe award-winning 1980 film (also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane), William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration is a thought-provoking, blackly comic journey into the heart of madness--and the outer limits of belief.
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In Pomegranate, Ranita Atwater prepares for release after four years of incarceration, determined to stay sober and reunite with her children.
Pomegranate
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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In Pomegranate, Ranita Atwater prepares for release after four years of incarceration, determined to stay sober and reunite with her children. Leaving behind a transformative love, she confronts addiction, faith, and the fragile promise of freedom. Helen Elaine Lee delivers a fierce, humane portrait of recovery and reinvention, longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
A “deep and beautiful” (Jaqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a queer Black woman’s fight for recovery, freedom, and redemption after incarceration—an unforgettable story of addiction, motherhood, and self-reinvention.
Ranita Atwater is “getting short.”
She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. Ranita is regaining her freedom, but she’s leaving behind her lover Maxine, who has inspired her to imagine herself and the world differently.
My name is Ranita, and I’m an addict, she has said again and again at recovery meetings. But who else is she? Who might she choose to become? Now she must steer clear of the temptations that have pulled her down, while atoning for her missteps and facing old wounds. With a fierce, smart, and sometimes funny voice, Ranita reveals how rocky and winding the path to wellness is for a Black woman, even as she draws on family, memory, faith, and love in order to choose life.
Pomegranate is a complex portrayal of queer Black womanhood and marginalization in America from an author “working at the height of her powers” (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling). In lyrical and precise prose, Helen Elaine Lee paints a humane and unflinching portrait of the devastating effects of incarceration and addiction, and of one woman’s determination to tell her story.
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Longing and isolation shape every page of The Wish Collector, where two wounded strangers form a connection across walls built by grief and shame.
The Wish Collector
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Romance · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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Longing and isolation shape every page of The Wish Collector, where two wounded strangers form a connection across walls built by grief and shame. When Clara becomes drawn to the man hidden inside the ruins of Windisle Plantation, friendship slowly turns into something deeper and more fragile. This is an emotional romance with gothic atmosphere, tenderness, and the quiet ache of healing.
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New Orleans, a city of mystery and magic, of secrets and dreams, and a history drenched in both love and the deepest of heartache.
When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of Windisle Plantation and the tragic tale that is said to have transpired beyond its gate. Legend has it that it is abandoned by all living souls, but to Clara’s great surprise, it is not a ghost she hears through the stone wall surrounding the property, but a flesh and blood man. A scarred stranger with a pain deeper and darker than the churning waters of the Mississippi river that flows beside his self-imposed prison.
The ruined man behind the wall hides himself from the world. The last thing he expects is to find a friend in the selfless girl who speaks to him through the cracks in the rock. The girl who keeps returning week after week. The girl who makes him wish for things he has long since given up on. The girl who strikes both fear and hope within his wounded heart. But there can be no future for them, no life beyond Windisle, for no one knows better than him that monsters only live in the dark.
The Wish Collector is the story of shame and triumph, of loneliness and love, and the miracle of two hearts connecting despite the strongest of barriers between them.
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When drifter Dave Nash takes a job with rancher Walt Shipley, loyalty quickly pulls him into a dangerous feud.
Ramrod
Historical Fiction · Men's Fiction · Western
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When drifter Dave Nash takes a job with rancher Walt Shipley, loyalty quickly pulls him into a dangerous feud. Left behind to defend the ranch, Nash finds himself allied with Connie Dickason—beautiful, ruthless, and far more dangerous than any hired gun. As a range war escalates, desire and betrayal collide in Luke Short’s classic noir Western.
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A strong-willed woman enlists a hard-bitten gunslinger to fight a ranch war in this classic western drama from an award–winning author.
Dave Nash smells trouble the moment he rides into Signal. He's only been working for Walt Shipley three weeks, but he feels he owes the man his life for giving him a job when no one else would. Now, Nash will do anything for Shipley—even if it means staring down the barrel of a gun. He'll face any danger for his new boss, but he hasn't reckoned on the most dangerous creature of all: a conniving frontier woman.
Connie Dickason is the most seductive woman in Signal, and Shipley has his heart set on marrying her. But a brewing war with a powerful cattleman drives Shipley from town, leaving Connie and Nash to defend the ranch together. The ranch hand soon discovers that the boss's wife will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Adapted into a 1947 United Artists film starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, Ramrod is a classic noir western that displays the versatile storytelling powers of award-winning author Luke Short.
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After nearly sixty years of marriage, Jenny Quinn secretly auditions for Britain Bakes, craving a purpose all her own.
Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction
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After nearly sixty years of marriage, Jenny Quinn secretly auditions for Britain Bakes, craving a purpose all her own. As she navigates cameras, competitions, and new friendships, long-buried memories rise with every recipe—threatening the one secret she has never confessed to her husband. Warm, charming, and deeply heartfelt, Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame celebrates courage, love, and second chances.
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“As cozy as a cup of tea and cake.”—People
“One of those books you just want to hug to your chest. I loved it so much.”—Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of While We Were Dating
A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food
Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard’s health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren—which Jenny never had—Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes.
Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence. But that independence, and the stress of the competition, starts to unearth memories buried decades ago. Chocolate teacakes remind her of a furtive errand involving a wedding ring; sugared doughnuts call up a stranger’s kind act; a simple cottage loaf brings back the moment her life changed forever.
With her baking star rising, Jenny struggles to keep a lid on that first secret—a long-concealed deceit that threatens to shatter the very foundations of her marriage. It’s the only time in six decades that she’s kept something from Bernard. By putting herself in the limelight, has Jenny created a recipe for disaster?
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