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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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Growing up in a Glasgow housing estate, Mungo finds unexpected love with James, a Catholic boy who shares his longing for escape.
Young Mungo
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Growing up in a Glasgow housing estate, Mungo finds unexpected love with James, a Catholic boy who shares his longing for escape. Their secret bond offers refuge from family upheaval and neighborhood tensions, until a dangerous fishing trip threatens everything. Acclaimed by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and the Washington Post, this novel explores love and resilience in a divided world.
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In the harsh beauty of Glasgow’s housing estates, Mungo grows up learning the rules of loyalty, survival, and silence. As a Protestant boy surrounded by family turmoil, he never expects to find tenderness in a world shaped by division. Yet in a quiet dovecote filled with racing pigeons, he and James, a Catholic boy, forge a love that defies their circumstances and the expectations that govern their lives.
Their secret becomes a fragile refuge against poverty, violence, and the weight of family demands. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a remote fishing trip with two unsettling men, his resilience is pushed to its limits, and the future he imagines with James hangs in the balance.
Acclaimed by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and the Washington Post, Young Mungo is a profound story of love, courage, and survival.
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Jane enters marriage hoping for a life shaped by love and art, only to find herself consumed by her husband’s ego and the demands of motherhood.
Liars
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Jane enters marriage hoping for a life shaped by love and art, only to find herself consumed by her husband’s ego and the demands of motherhood. As her writing career rises, her relationship crumbles, forcing her to confront who she has become and who she wants to be. A best of year selection praised for its sharp insight and emotional power.
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Jane never imagined how easily a marriage could swallow the person she worked so hard to become. As a young writer, she falls for filmmaker John Bridges and believes they are building a life shaped by art, ambition, and shared possibility. Motherhood brings joy, but it also shifts gravity. John’s needs expand, his ego eclipses, and Jane learns how quickly a woman can become defined by someone else’s desires.
As her own career finally takes flight, the marriage strains under its widening cracks. Holding the family together becomes an exhausting act of performance, one that shatters when John walks away.
Widely acclaimed and named a best book of the year by multiple outlets, Liars delivers a fierce, incisive portrait of a woman reclaiming herself from the ruins.
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Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in the American colonies, Aminata Diallo survives through memory and learning.
Someone Knows My Name
Historical Fiction · People of Color
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Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in the American colonies, Aminata Diallo survives through memory and learning. Her escape during the Revolutionary War leads her to Manhattan, then Nova Scotia, and eventually back to Africa and London as she becomes a witness to injustice and a keeper of stories. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, this novel offers a moving portrait of resilience.
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Torn from her home and carried across an ocean, Aminata Diallo enters a world shaped by violence, resilience, and the will to survive. As a child enslaved in South Carolina, she learns to hold tight to memory and language, the pieces of herself no one can steal.
War grants her a narrow chance at freedom, and in Manhattan she becomes a scribe, recording the names of Black men and women who earned passage to Nova Scotia. Yet life in the new colony brings fresh hardship, pushing her toward a journey that leads back to Africa and onward to London.
Across each place she touches, Aminata stands as witness, storyteller, and keeper of truth. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Someone Knows My Name is a powerful portrait of endurance and hope.
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Returning to Montana, Madison Bettencourt confronts fading dreams, a grandmother slipping away, and the mystery of Bliss Morgan, the childhood friend who vanished years before.
Where the Creek Bends
Literary Fiction · Romance · Western · Women's Fiction
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Returning to Montana, Madison Bettencourt confronts fading dreams, a grandmother slipping away, and the mystery of Bliss Morgan, the childhood friend who vanished years before. With the help of widowed father Liam McKettrick, she searches for truth amid memories and the uncanny presence in her family home. A poignant story of healing, connection, and finding the family we choose.
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A return home stirs echoes of a past Madison Bettencourt has spent years trying to outgrow. In Montana, the quiet halls of her family estate feel both familiar and haunted as her grandmother slips further from the world and memories rise in her place. When Madison uncovers remnants of her childhood bond with Bliss Morgan, a friend who vanished without explanation, her longing for clarity deepens.
Determined to understand why Bliss disappeared, Madison begins untangling secrets she once ignored. Liam McKettrick, a widowed father mending his own fractured family, steps forward as an unexpected source of strength. Together they navigate shifting truths, emotional wounds, and the strange pull of Bettencourt Hall.
From the acclaimed author Linda Lael Miller, Where the Creek Bends is a tender story about second chances, found family, and the courage to follow the heart.
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During the 1918 flu outbreak, thirteen year old Pia Lange searches a quarantined Philadelphia for food, unaware that her absence draws the attention of a grieving woman determined…
The Orphan Collector
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · World War 2
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During the 1918 flu outbreak, thirteen year old Pia Lange searches a quarantined Philadelphia for food, unaware that her absence draws the attention of a grieving woman determined to reshape the city’s orphans. Forced into a harrowing journey, Pia fights for truth, justice, and family. Acclaimed by Booklist and Publishers Weekly, this historical novel highlights resilience in extraordinary times.
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Fear sweeps through Philadelphia as celebration turns to sorrow, and a young girl’s world narrows to survival. For Pia Lange, the city’s crowded streets hold both danger and the fragile hope of finding her family again.
At thirteen, Pia shoulders the weight of protecting her baby brothers while navigating anti immigrant hostility that shadows her every step. When the Spanish flu strikes, she ventures into the quarantined city in search of food, unaware that a single decision will change everything.
Bernice Groves, consumed by grief, sees opportunity in the chaos, setting her sights on the city’s vulnerable children. Her choices place Pia in a desperate fight for truth and justice.
Praised by Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and other outlets, The Orphan Collector offers a powerful portrait of resilience during one of history’s darkest moments.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary family dramas about parental expectations, cultural identity, and the difficulty of understanding those closest to us.
Everything I Never Told You
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “heart-wrenching” by the Los Angeles Times, this novel follows a Chinese American family in 1970s Ohio after their daughter Lydia is found dead in a local lake. This will appeal to readers who want literary family dramas about parental expectations, cultural identity, and the difficulty of understanding those closest to us.
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York
The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts
“A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine
“Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
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In an airport lounge, Jeff Cook reveals how saving a stranger’s life led him into the world of a powerful art dealer and into a maze of shifting…
Mouth to Mouth
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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In an airport lounge, Jeff Cook reveals how saving a stranger’s life led him into the world of a powerful art dealer and into a maze of shifting truths. As admiration turns to obsession, his story becomes a study in ambition and self-deception. Mouth to Mouth is a taut, addictive novel about influence, identity, and moral blind spots.
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One confession can unravel a lifetime of choices, especially when the truth belongs to someone else.
In the quiet luxury of an airport lounge, a chance encounter leads Jeff Cook to recount how his life veered off course after rescuing a drowning stranger. Compelled to understand the man he saved, Jeff infiltrates the orbit of renowned art dealer Francis Arsenault, entering a world where success is built on perception, ambition, and shifting truths. As Francis takes Jeff under his wing, admiration becomes obsession, and opportunity blurs into manipulation.
Across the fault lines of power and desire, Jeff’s story twists toward consequences he can no longer control.
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson is a sleek, unsettling novel of identity, deception, and the stories we tell to justify ourselves.
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A monthly book club becomes a lifeline for five women facing turning points in their lives.
The Book Club
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A monthly book club becomes a lifeline for five women facing turning points in their lives. Through grief, ambition, betrayal, self-doubt, and the longing for acceptance, Eve, Annie, Doris, Gabriella, and Midge learn that friendship can steady even the most uncertain seasons. The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe celebrates resilience, hope, and the bonds that keep us moving forward.
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Some gatherings change your life long before you realize it.
To the outside world, Eve, Annie, Doris, Gabriella, and Midge meet simply to discuss books. But behind closed doors, their monthly circle becomes a refuge where each woman finds the courage to face the truths reshaping her life. Eve mourns a future stolen by sudden loss. Annie weighs ambition against the family she longs for. Doris confronts the end of a marriage she once trusted. Gabriella discovers how difficult it is to ask for the support she always gives. Midge embraces the freedom to live by her own rules.
As their stories intertwine, these five women discover that change is bearable when shared.
The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe is a tender portrait of resilience, connection, and the quiet power of friendship.
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Briseis can make plants bloom with a touch, but her newfound inheritance hides secrets as deadly as her gift.
This Poison Heart
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · People of Color
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Briseis can make plants bloom with a touch, but her newfound inheritance hides secrets as deadly as her gift. In a remote estate with a garden full of poisonous wonders, she uncovers a legacy tied to magic and danger. This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron is a gripping contemporary fantasy about power, ancestry, and self-discovery.
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Power can flourish like a vine, but it can also choke what you love most.
Briseis has always feared her gift. With a single touch she can coax seeds into bloom, an ability as wondrous as it is dangerous. When her aunt dies and leaves her a crumbling estate in upstate New York, Bri hopes the quiet gardens will finally help her control what she carries. Instead, she finds locked instructions, a walled sanctuary of lethal plants, and secrets rooted deep in her family’s past.
As dark forces stir around the estate, Bri must unravel the truth behind her inheritance before the power she wields consumes her.
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron is a lush contemporary fantasy of magic, legacy, and the courage to face the darkness within.
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When sixteen-year-old Stella’s visions of the future upend her family, three generations of Sparrow women must reconcile love, truth, and destiny.
The Probable Future
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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When sixteen-year-old Stella’s visions of the future upend her family, three generations of Sparrow women must reconcile love, truth, and destiny. The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman is a haunting story of inherited gifts, hidden wounds, and the fragile bonds that can heal a family. A timeless tale of magic, memory, and forgiveness.
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Every woman in the Sparrow family is born with a gift, but some miracles feel more like burdens.
Elinor can sense lies, her daughter Jenny walks through other people’s dreams, and sixteen-year-old Stella can see the future—visions that soon unravel the fragile peace holding their family together. When one of Stella’s premonitions leads to tragedy, she is drawn into the life of the grandmother she never knew and the ancestral home where generations of women have lived and loved.
As secrets surface and forgiveness takes root, three generations must face the truth of who they are and what they share.
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman is a luminous novel of family, fate, and the fragile magic that binds us all.
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