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When Addie’s ex boyfriend, a high profile investigative journalist, disappears, Lucy and her tight knit group of friends throw themselves into the search.
Watch Us Fall
Thriller · Literary Fiction · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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When Addie’s ex boyfriend, a high profile investigative journalist, disappears, Lucy and her tight knit group of friends throw themselves into the search. But as detectives close in, the Sweeties’ polished lives begin to crack, and Lucy’s fixation on the case exposes secrets she can no longer outrun. Watch Us Fall is a gripping mystery about obsession, truth, and the stories we tell ourselves.
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“A stunning work of suspense that’s impossible to put down. Christina Kovac masterfully combines a twisty missing person mystery, a heartbreaking love story, and an insightful exploration of the nature of obsession and trauma. I loved this novel.” —Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek
Lucy and her three best friends share a glamorous but decaying house in the heart of Georgetown. They call themselves “the Sweeties” and live an idyllic post-grad lifestyle complete with exciting jobs, dramatic love lives, and, most importantly, each other.
But when Addie, the group’s queen bee, discovers that her ex-boyfriend Josh has gone missing, the Sweeties’ worlds are turned upside down. In the days leading up to his disappearance, Josh, a star investigative journalist from a prominent political family, was behaving erratically—and Lucy is determined to find out why. All four friends upend their lives to search for him, but detectives begin to suspect that the Sweeties might know more than they’re letting on.
As the investigation unfolds, Lucy’s obsession with the case reaches a boiling point, and with it, her own troubling secrets begin bubbling to the surface of her carefully curated life. A thrilling account of the lies and delusions that lurk beneath cloistered groups of female friends and the sinister realities of celebrity, Watch Us Fall is a gripping mystery and an examination of the things we tell ourselves when we can’t face the truth.
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When Hope’s infant son vanishes, the case seems to break open after a woman in Spain is found with a child who looks just like him.
The Day I Lost You
Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Women's Fiction
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When Hope’s infant son vanishes, the case seems to break open after a woman in Spain is found with a child who looks just like him. But Lauren insists the boy is hers and has the documents to prove it. As the investigation unravels the past binding these women together, secrets surface that threaten everyone involved.
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The internationally bestselling author of The Woman on the Ledge returns with a twisty thriller about a missing child and three adults whose shared secrets and hidden history could prove deadly.
“I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.”
All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She’s suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her.
Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.
But Sam has gone missing.
So when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end.
But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it.
So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?
One child. Two mothers. And a past that won’t let them go.
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Cricket Campbell returns home to care for her father, hoping to mend their strained bond and escape her stalled life.
Before I Forget
Literary Fiction
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Cricket Campbell returns home to care for her father, hoping to mend their strained bond and escape her stalled life. Instead, she discovers he has begun predicting the future as his memories fade, pushing her to confront the past she has long avoided. Warm, funny, and deeply heartfelt, Before I Forget explores family, healing, and finding a way forward.
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A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the role of memory in holding us back—and in moving us forward—for fans of The Collected Regrets of Clover and Maame.
Call it inertia. Call it a quarter-life crisis. Whatever you call it, Cricket Campbell is stuck. Despite working at a zeitgeisty wellness company, the 26-year-old feels anything but well. Still adrift after a tragedy that upended her world a decade ago, she has entered early adulthood under the weight of a new burden: her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
When Cricket’s older sister Nina announces it is time to move Arthur from his beloved Adirondack lake house into a memory-care facility, Cricket has a better idea. In returning home to become her father’s caretaker, she hopes to repair their strained relationship and shake herself out of her perma-funk. But even deeply familiar places can hold surprises.
As Cricket settles back into the family house at Catwood Pond—a place she once loved, but hasn’t visited since she was a teenager—she discovers that her father possesses a rare gift: as he loses his grasp of the past, he is increasingly able to predict the future. Before long, Arthur cements his reputation as an unlikely oracle, but for Cricket, believing in her father’s prophecies might also mean facing the most painful parts of her history. As she begins to remember who she once was, she uncovers a vital truth: the path forward often starts by going back.
With laugh-out-loud humor and profound grace, Before I Forget explores the nuances of family, the complexities of memory, and how sometimes, the people we know the best are the ones who surprise us the most.
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When the librarian of the Library of Fates dies and its rarest book disappears, Eleanor joins forces with Daniel, the son she once loved, to recover it.
The Library of Fates
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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When the librarian of the Library of Fates dies and its rarest book disappears, Eleanor joins forces with Daniel, the son she once loved, to recover it. Their search leads from Harvard to Paris as they uncover secrets someone is desperate to protect. Atmospheric and gripping, The Library of Fates mixes dark academia, magic, and psychological tension.
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When its librarian keeper mysteriously dies, two former classmates must race to locate a rare book from their college years that can foretell your future if you confess a secret from your past—but someone is intent on protecting what’s hidden inside.
It can write the story of your future... and hide the secrets of your past.
The Library of Fates was designed to show you who you are—and who you could become. Its rarest book, The Book of Dark Nights, holds a secret: when you write an intimate confession on its pages, you'll receive a prediction for your future, penned in your own handwriting.
For Eleanor, whose childhood was defined by a senseless tragedy, the library offers a world where everything makes sense. She’s spent most of her life there as an apprentice to the brilliant librarian, showing other people how to find the meaning of their lives in stories.
But when her mentor dies in a freak accident and The Book of Dark Nights goes missing—along with the secrets written inside—Eleanor is pulled out of the library and into a quest to locate it with the last person she expects: the librarian’s estranged son, Daniel, who Eleanor once loved.
Together, as they hunt down clues from Harvard to Paris, Eleanor and Daniel grow closer again, regaining each other’s trust. But little do they know that they’re entangled in a much larger web. Someone else wants the book, and they'll go to dark lengths to get it...
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Three women across three centuries are bound by a curse born of desperation.
Dark Sisters
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Three women across three centuries are bound by a curse born of desperation. Anne seeks protection through dark magic, Mary risks everything for forbidden love, and Camilla uncovers a power rising within her as her community unravels. Fierce and atmospheric, Dark Sisters explores rage, resilience, and the ties that bind women across time.
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In 1970s Baltimore, quiet, dutiful Mary Jane takes a nanny job in what appears to be a respectable home—only to discover it is hosting a rock star and…
Mary Jane
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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In 1970s Baltimore, quiet, dutiful Mary Jane takes a nanny job in what appears to be a respectable home—only to discover it is hosting a rock star and his movie-star wife in secret. Immersed in their chaotic, lively world, she begins to rethink everything she believed about family and freedom. Mary Jane is a charming, music filled coming-of-age story.
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"The best book of the summer." -- InStyle
"I LOVED this novel....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm." —Nick Hornby
Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this "delightful" (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for—who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.
In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house.
The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane’s mother to know, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job—helping a famous rock star dry out. A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in.
Over the course of the summer, Mary Jane introduces her new household to crisply ironed clothes and a family dinner schedule, and has a front-row seat to a liberal world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll (not to mention group therapy). Caught between the lifestyle she’s always known and the future she’s only just realized is possible, Mary Jane will arrive at September with a new idea about what she wants out of life, and what kind of person she’s going to be.
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Ideal for readers drawn to ambitious science fiction about technology, consciousness, mortality, and digital worlds.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction · Techno-Thriller
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A New York Times bestseller called “an audacious epic with more than enough heart” by Kirkus Reviews, this speculative novel follows Richard “Dodge” Forthrast after his brain is preserved and eventually revived in a digital afterlife called Bitworld, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 6,200 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers drawn to ambitious science fiction about technology, consciousness, mortality, and digital worlds.
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New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.
In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia.
One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived.
In the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife—the Bitworld—is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.
But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem . . .
Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age.
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As American expansion collides with Blackfeet lands, Michael Kirk—called Yellow Hair by his adopted people—must infiltrate ruthless fur traders to protect the tribe that raised him.
Buckskin Brigades
Historical Fiction · Men's Fiction · Western
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As American expansion collides with Blackfeet lands, Michael Kirk—called Yellow Hair by his adopted people—must infiltrate ruthless fur traders to protect the tribe that raised him. Sparked by a deadly encounter with Meriwether Lewis, tensions escalate into a struggle for survival and sovereignty. Buckskin Brigades delivers a vivid, historically grounded tale of honor and frontier conflict.
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Honor. Spirit. Survival. A story of the Blackfeet Nation.
“A thriller [which has] an enthusiasm, even a freshness and a sparkle, decidedly rare in this type of romance.” —New York Times
Greed crossed the mountains. Honor stood its ground.
1806. A young republic just three decades old—the United States of America—is preparing to press westward across the Mississippi, into a land as wild as it is breathtaking: a territory of towering mountains and violent rivers, icy glaciers and searing deserts—the great Northwest.
Driven by greed and renowned for their ruthlessness, fur traders have already begun encroaching on the forbidden hunting grounds of the Blackfeet.
When Captain Meriwether Lewis fires a bullet that kills a Blackfoot warrior, he ignites a conflict that will echo for generations—lighting the fuse between encroaching traders and one of the mightiest warrior nations on the plains.
Caught in the fallout is Michael Kirk—known to his adopted people as Yellow Hair. Raised by the Blackfeet, bound by their honor, he is chosen as a silent envoy into the white man’s world. Tasked with infiltrating the fur traders, Yellow Hair must navigate a world of deception, greed, and shifting loyalties—all while protecting the culture that shaped him.
Drawing from firsthand accounts, fur trade journals, and a lifetime of fascination with indigenous history, Buckskin Brigades is a sweeping saga of American history—a story of courage, endurance, and one man’s stand on the edge of a nation’s violent transformation.
You will love this historical fiction of 19th Century America because, as the Durham Herald review states, it is “a crack adventure…exciting…historically accurate. Buckskin Brigades presents a new struggle and a new scene in fiction.”
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Growing up in Indiana, Ashley Ford longs for her incarcerated father while navigating poverty, adolescence, and a volatile bond with her mother.
Somebody’s Daughter
Biographies & Memoirs · People of Color
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Growing up in Indiana, Ashley Ford longs for her incarcerated father while navigating poverty, adolescence, and a volatile bond with her mother. After an assault she hides from her family, the truth about her father’s imprisonment shatters what she thought she knew. Somebody’s Daughter is a powerful, widely acclaimed memoir about identity, pain, and the enduring pull of family.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist
Indie Bestseller
“This is a book people will be talking about forever.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
“Ford’s wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it.” —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.
Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he’s in prison, and she doesn’t know what he did to end up there. She doesn’t know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father’s incarceration . . . and Ashley’s entire world is turned upside down.
Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.
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Lena Wise enters senior year dreaming of big possibilities with her friends and her longtime crush, Sebastian.
If There’s No Tomorrow
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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Lena Wise enters senior year dreaming of big possibilities with her friends and her longtime crush, Sebastian. But one devastating moment shatters her plans and leaves her fighting guilt, grief, and the fear that tomorrow may never look the same. If There’s No Tomorrow delivers a moving, powerful story about responsibility, forgiveness, and learning to keep going.
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Lena Wise begins her senior year believing the future is hers to shape. She wants one last season of late nights with friends, a clear path toward college, and the courage to admit her feelings for Sebastian, the best friend who has always been her constant. Tomorrow feels wide open, full of promise.
Then one choice fractures everything. In the aftermath, Lena’s world contracts to guilt, grief, and the fear that nothing will ever be the same. Friendships strain, plans crumble, and even Sebastian feels impossibly distant as she struggles to face what happened and what she allowed to happen.
Acclaimed for its emotional depth, If There’s No Tomorrow is a powerful story of loss, accountability, and the hard, hopeful work of finding a way forward.
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Margaret Fuller rises from Boston’s literary circles to become a pioneering journalist, feminist, and foreign correspondent.
Finding Margaret Fuller
Literary Fiction · Biographical Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Margaret Fuller rises from Boston’s literary circles to become a pioneering journalist, feminist, and foreign correspondent. Crossing paths with Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Poe, and Europe’s great artists, she forges a life of purpose and passion. Finding Margaret Fuller offers a sweeping portrait of a woman who defied every boundary placed before her.
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Margaret Fuller enters history as a brilliant force in a world determined to confine her. Surrounded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the thinkers who shape America’s literary spirit, she becomes the vibrant heart of the Transcendentalist movement. Yet her restless intellect and fierce independence push her far beyond Boston salons and philosophical debates.
As she defies expectations, Margaret becomes the first woman to access Harvard’s library, a champion for women’s rights, and a reporter chronicling injustice on the streets of New York. Her journey carries her across Europe as a foreign correspondent, where she mingles with artists, writers, and revolutionaries, and finds love in a city on the brink of change.
Praised for its sweeping scope, Finding Margaret Fuller honors a trailblazer whose courage reshaped history.
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During a Boston snowstorm, an argument leads Tip and Teddy Doyle into an accident that entangles them with a stranger and her child.
Run
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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During a Boston snowstorm, an argument leads Tip and Teddy Doyle into an accident that entangles them with a stranger and her child. Over one turbulent day, the family faces long buried secrets, shifting loyalties, and the divide between privilege and poverty. Ann Patchett crafts a poignant, suspenseful story about responsibility and the unexpected ties that define us.
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In the middle of a Boston snowstorm, one split second shatters the fragile balance of the Doyle family. Tip and Teddy have spent their lives shaped by their father’s ambitions, pushed toward political futures they have never wanted. Since their mother’s death, Bernard Doyle has clung tightly to his sons, convinced he alone can guide their paths.
But an argument on an icy street draws a stranger and her young daughter into their orbit, setting off a chain of revelations that forces every member of the family to confront buried truths. Over the next twenty four hours, privilege intersects with hardship, and unexpected bonds take shape in the most unlikely places.
Acclaimed author Ann Patchett delivers a moving, deeply humane novel about responsibility, connection, and the enduring reach of family.
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