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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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Six years after the catastrophe at Jurassic Park, whispers emerge that dinosaurs may still roam a second, hidden island.
The Lost World
Speculative Fiction · Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering
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Six years after the catastrophe at Jurassic Park, whispers emerge that dinosaurs may still roam a second, hidden island. Drawn back into danger, scientists and explorers race to uncover the truth and survive the consequences of genetic engineering gone wrong. Michael Crichton’s The Lost World delivers relentless tension, breathtaking action, and the haunting question of what science has set loose.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo comes the sequel to the smash-hit Jurassic Park, a thriller that’s been millions of years in the making.
“Fast and gripping.”—The Washington Post Book World
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public.
There are rumors that something has survived. . . .
“Harrowing thrills . . . fast-paced and engaging.”—People
“A very scary read.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Action-packed.”—New York Daily News
“An edge-of-the-seat tale.”—St. Petersburg Times
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Orphaned at ten, Thomazine Heron is sent to Goldhayes, where she must forge a place for herself amid strict expectations and rising civil unrest.
The Moon in the Water
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Romance
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Orphaned at ten, Thomazine Heron is sent to Goldhayes, where she must forge a place for herself amid strict expectations and rising civil unrest. As she comes of age, her bond with her cousin Francis deepens into a love neither dares acknowledge. Set against the turmoil of 17th-century England, The Moon in the Water begins a sweeping, emotionally rich historical saga.
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THE ASTONISHING INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER
“An extraordinary historical romance . . . One of the best to date.” Chicago Sun-Times
England, 1635. Ten-year-old Thomazine Heron’s life is shattered when a deadly illness robs her of her father and brother, leaving her an orphan and heiress. Torn from her beloved home and sent to live with distant relatives at the grand Goldhayes estate in Suffolk, Thomazine must adjust to a new world of unfamiliar faces, rigid expectations, and buried secrets
"I had been reared in an independent spirit, you see, and I took against being pushed hither and thither like a backgammon counter."
As she comes of age during the turbulent years leading to the English Civil War, Thomazine’s journey is one of transformation—from spirited child to determined young woman, fiercely loyal to those she loves and unwilling to submit to the dictates of society. In a world where family ties are tested and political allegiances are shifting, she finds strength, friendship, and the first stirrings of forbidden love.
As Thomazine grows into young womanhood at Goldhayes, amidst the tightening grip of civil unrest, her path crosses with that of Francis Heron—her cousin by blood, but her equal in spirit. What begins as childhood camaraderie deepens over the years into a bond laced with tension, loyalty, and a love neither of them dares name. In a time when duty and bloodlines dictate fate, Thomazine finds herself torn between the world she was born into and the one her heart longs to claim.
"I shall just refuse. There's little they can do to me, and whatever they do can't last forever. I'm a Heron, you see, and our motto is 'No surrender'."
The Moon in the Water is the powerful first volume in The Heron Saga, perfect for fans of Sharon Penman, Philippa Gregory, and Diana Gabaldon.
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Ideal for readers looking for funny, flamboyant sci-fi with aliens, spectacle, music, and absurdly high stakes.
Space Opera
Speculative Fiction · Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Opera
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A Hugo Award finalist for Best Novel, Space Opera sends Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes to represent Earth in a galactic song competition where failure means extermination, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 2,100 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for funny, flamboyant sci-fi with aliens, spectacle, music, and absurdly high stakes.
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2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth.
A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding.
Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Species far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. And if a new species should wish to be counted among the high and the mighty, if a new planet has produced some savage group of animals, machines, or algae that claim to be, against all odds, sentient? Well, then they will have to compete. And if they fail? Sudden extermination for their entire species.
This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny—they must sing.
Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes have been chosen to represent their planet on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock.
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When the sudden death of a family patriarch shatters the McClaren household, each adult child spirals in a different, unsettling direction, while their mother’s grief leads her toward…
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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When the sudden death of a family patriarch shatters the McClaren household, each adult child spirals in a different, unsettling direction, while their mother’s grief leads her toward an unexpected path of renewal. Through the fractures of one family, Joyce Carol Oates explores race, trauma, class, and the uneasy currents of contemporary America with her signature stark intensity.
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“Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times. Night is spot on for these times of racial divide, as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. . . . Night deserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates, our finest American novelist, for this one.” -- Star Tribune
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers
Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.
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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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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo begin senior year as prefects with promising futures—until an anonymous bully called Aces starts exposing their secrets.
Ace of Spades
Teen + Young Adult · LGBTQIA+ · Romance · People of Color
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo begin senior year as prefects with promising futures—until an anonymous bully called Aces starts exposing their secrets. As the attacks escalate from sabotage to something far more dangerous, the two must join forces to uncover the truth. A Morris Award finalist and New York Times–bestselling debut.
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New York Times-bestselling thriller by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully.
"Readers will love this thriller-mystery... A revelatory, buzzworthy debut." —School Library Journal, starred review
All you need to know is . . . I’m here to divide and conquer. Like all great tyrants do. —Aces
When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too.
Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures.
As Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly?
A MORRIS AWARD FINALIST
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
AN INDIE BESTSELLER
A NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER
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In 1940 Paris, bookstore owner Laurence risks everything for the Resistance, her mission complicated by a downed Allied pilot and a secret that could cost lives.
The Paris Network
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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In 1940 Paris, bookstore owner Laurence risks everything for the Resistance, her mission complicated by a downed Allied pilot and a secret that could cost lives. Decades later, Jeanne inherits a ruined French bookshop from a woman she’s never met, uncovering a pendant, a hidden history, and a legacy of courage. A moving, true-inspired story of loyalty, sacrifice, and love.
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Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people of France.’
Sliding the coded message in between the crisp pages of the hardback novel, bookstore owner Laurence slips out into the cold night to meet her resistance contact, pulling her woollen beret down further over her face. The silence of the night is suddenly shattered by an Allied plane rushing overhead, its tail aflame, heading down towards the forest. Her every nerve stands on end. She must try to rescue the pilot.
But straying from her mission isn’t part of the plan, and if she is discovered it won’t only be her life at risk…
America, years later: when Jeanne uncovers a dusty old box in her father’s garage, her world as she knows it is turned upside down. She has inherited a bookstore in a tiny French village just outside of Paris from a mysterious woman named Laurence.
Travelling to France to search for answers about the woman her father has kept a secret for years, Jeanne finds the store tucked away in a corner of the cobbled main square. Boarded up, it is in complete disrepair. Inside, she finds a tiny silver pendant hidden beneath the blackened, scorched floorboards.
As Jeanne pieces together Laurence’s incredible story, she discovers a woman whose bravery knew no bounds. But will the truth about who Laurence really is shatter Jeanne’s heart, or change her future?
Inspired by true events, an epic and emotional novel about one woman’s strength to survive in the most difficult circumstances and the power of love in the face of darkness. Fans of The Alice Network, The Nightingale and The Lost Girls of Paris will be completely gripped from the very first page.
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Archaeologist Libby Snow returns to Scotland’s rugged Ullaness headland, hoping to uncover the truth behind an eighth-century legend passed down through her family.
Women of the Dunes
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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Archaeologist Libby Snow returns to Scotland’s rugged Ullaness headland, hoping to uncover the truth behind an eighth-century legend passed down through her family. When storms expose a century-old body, her excavation reveals echoes of a maid named Ellen, a Norsewoman named Ulla, and a cycle of love and violence that still shapes the Sturrock estate. A haunting mystery from Sarah Maine.
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A beautifully told and intriguing mystery about two generations of Scottish women united by blood, an obsession with the past, and a long-hidden body, from the author of The House Between Tides.
Libby Snow has always felt the pull of Ullaness, a headland on Scotland’s sea-lashed western coast where a legend has taken root. At its center is Ulla, an eighth-century Norsewoman whose uncertain fate was entangled with two warring brothers and a man who sought to save her. Libby first heard the stories from her grandmother, who had learned it from her own forebear, Ellen, a maid at Sturrock House.
The Sturrocks have owned the land where Ulla dwelled for generations, and now Libby, an archaeologist, has their permission to excavate a mysterious mound, which she hopes will cast light on the legend’s truth. But before she can begin, storms reveal the unexpected: the century-old bones of an unidentified man. The discovery triggers Libby’s memories of family stories about Ellen, of her strange obsession with Ulla, and of her violent past at Sturrock House.
As Libby digs deeper, she unravels a recurring story of love, tragedy, and threads that bind the past to the present. And as she learns more of Rodri Sturrock, the landowner’s brother, she realizes these forces are still at work, and that she has her own role to play in Ulla’s dark legend.
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When enemy Travelers destroy his home, Simon has no powers, no prophecy, and no promise of survival.
House of Blades
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy
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When enemy Travelers destroy his home, Simon has no powers, no prophecy, and no promise of survival. Yet he sets out alone to confront the ruthless Overlord and save his captured friends, determined to forge his own strength in a world ruled by magic. A gripping coming-of-age fantasy that champions grit over destiny in Will Wight’s breakout novel.
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Simon can only watch, helpless, as his family is killed and his friends captured by enemy Travelers—men and women who can summon mystical powers from otherworldly Territories. To top it off, another young man from Simon's village discovers that he's a savior prophesied to destroy evil and save the realm. Prophecy has nothing to say about Simon. He has no special powers, no magical weapons, and no guarantee that he'll survive. But he sets off anyway, alone, to gain the power he needs to oppose the Travelers and topple their ruthless Overlord. It may not be his destiny, but Simon's determined to rescue his fellow villagers from certain death. Because who cares about prophecy, really?
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