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With 4.6 stars on Amazon, Lucky Man is Michael J. Fox’s witty, raw, and unexpectedly uplifting memoir.
Lucky Man
Biographies & Memoirs
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With 4.6 stars on Amazon, Lucky Man is Michael J. Fox’s witty, raw, and unexpectedly uplifting memoir. From breakout fame to private battles with Parkinson’s, Fox recounts his journey with honesty and humor. A story of resilience, gratitude, and purpose, this bestseller proves life doesn’t have to be perfect to be worth celebrating.
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Michael J. Fox was on top of the world—until Parkinson’s knocked him sideways.
Diagnosed at 30 with a disease typically seen in the elderly, Fox kept it secret for years. But Lucky Man isn’t a tragedy. It’s a razor-sharp, deeply personal, and unexpectedly funny memoir about fame, fear, and finding perspective.
From his wild early days in Hollywood to the height of his Back to the Future fame, Fox candidly recounts his meteoric rise, his darkest moments, and the hard-earned joy that came after. Parkinson’s didn’t ruin his life—it reshaped it.
With warmth, humility, and gut-punch wit, Fox shares how he went from denial to advocacy, and why he now considers himself not just surviving—but lucky.
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A good pick for readers of World War II fiction centered on resistance, sacrifice, forbidden love, and real historical figures.
The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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Based on the true story of Mala Zimetbaum, this historical novel follows a young woman who uses her position as a camp interpreter to help fellow prisoners and plans a dangerous escape with the man she loves, with a 4.4-star average from more than 12,400 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers of World War II fiction centered on resistance, sacrifice, forbidden love, and real historical figures.
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“We must die standing up for something.” “And what are we standing up for?” “The most important thing there is. Freedom.”
Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel is inspired by the true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose heroism will never be forgotten, and whose fate altered the course of history…
Nobody leaves Auschwitz alive.
Mala, inmate 19880, understood that the moment she stepped off the cattle train into the depths of hell. As an interpreter for the SS, she uses her position to save as many lives as she can, smuggling scraps of bread to those desperate with hunger.
Edward, inmate 531, is a camp veteran and a political prisoner. Though he looks like everyone else, with a shaved head and striped uniform, he’s a fighter in the underground Resistance. And he has an escape plan.
They are locked up for no other sin than simply existing. But when they meet, the dark shadow of Auschwitz is lit by a glimmer of hope. Edward makes Mala believe in the impossible. That despite being surrounded by electric wire, machine guns topping endless watchtowers and searchlights roaming the ground, they will leave this death camp.
A promise is made––they will escape together or they will die together. What follows is one of the greatest love stories in history…
Fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Choice, and The Orphan Train will love this breathtakingly beautiful tale, of courage in the face of tragedy and bravery in the face of fear. Inspired by a true story, The Girl Who Escaped Auschwitz shows that, in darkness, love can be your light…
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This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction about overlooked women, wartime invention, and the life behind a famous public image.
The Only Woman in the Room
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · World War 2
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A New York Times and USA Today bestseller, this historical novel follows Hedy Lamarr as she escapes her marriage to an Austrian arms dealer and becomes a Hollywood star. Drawing on her scientific abilities and knowledge of the enemy, she develops an invention that could help fight the Nazis, if anyone will listen. This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction about overlooked women, wartime invention, and the life behind a famous public image.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty.
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side and understood more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.
But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis and revolutionize modern communication...if anyone would listen to her.
A powerful book based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist, The Only Woman in the Room is a masterpiece that celebrates the many women in science that history has overlooked.
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Hollywood is burning, a freeway has collapsed, and a killer may be hiding in the flames.
Hidden in Smoke
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural
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Hollywood is burning, a freeway has collapsed, and a killer may be hiding in the flames. In Hidden in Smoke, Sharpe and Walker join forces with Eve Ronin in a pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestseller Lee Goldberg. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this explosive third installment packs arson, revenge, and nonstop twists into one hell of a case.
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A serial arsonist sets Hollywood ablaze in one terrifying night. Then a freeway fire cripples Los Angeles. For arson investigators Sharpe and Walker, what began as a hunt for a firebug becomes something far bigger—and far deadlier.
They need backup. Fast.
Enter homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone. As the team chases leads across a scorched city, two investigations start to converge. What if the fires weren’t random? What if they’re connected to something darker?
When an old enemy resurfaces with a deadly plan, the detectives find themselves in a race against time. The city is burning. The clock is ticking. And someone wants to turn smoke into a smokescreen.
In a case built on secrets, no one is safe and nothing stays buried.
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It fits readers who want fleet warfare, imperial power struggles, and high-stakes space opera.
The Praxis
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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An empire built on absolute control begins to crack in The Praxis, where the death of a ruling species opens the door to war, ambition, and collapse. As Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula confront a rising threat, the novel blends military science fiction with political upheaval on an interstellar scale. It fits readers who want fleet warfare, imperial power struggles, and high-stakes space opera.
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“Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” -- George R.R. Martin
The first book in the completed Dread Empire's Fall trilogy, followed by The Sundering and Conventions of War.
All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis
For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order . . . and bloody chaos.
A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid -- the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others -- to replace the masters’ despotic rule with their own. Barely escaping a swarming surprise attack, Martinez and Caroline Sula, a pilot whose beautiful face conceals a deadly secret, are now the last hope for freedom for every being who ever languished in Shaa chains -- as the interstellar battle begins against a merciless foe whose only perfect truth is annihilation.
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One year after an EMP devastated the U.S., the survivors of Black Mountain face a new threat: a tyrannical regime posing as salvation.
One Year After
Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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One year after an EMP devastated the U.S., the survivors of Black Mountain face a new threat: a tyrannical regime posing as salvation. In One Year After, the gripping sequel to One Second After, John Matherson must fight not just for survival, but for liberty. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this post-apocalyptic thriller raises chilling questions about power and control.
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A year has passed since the electromagnetic pulse attack crippled the United States. In Black Mountain, North Carolina, survivors are rebuilding slowly. Electricity flickers. Medicine is scarce. Hope is fragile but alive.
Then a new threat arrives.
A federal administrator claims the government is back. With him comes the promise of order, but also a mandate. The town’s young people will be drafted into the so-called Army of National Recovery and sent far from home to fight battles they do not understand.
John Matherson led his people through the worst year of their lives. Now he must decide whether to submit to the New Regime or rise against it.
In a world where freedom is fading and survival is never guaranteed, resistance might be the only path forward.
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A rare bond becomes a threat when a young girl and her dragon are forced into a system built to erase everything they are.
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Historical Fantasy · Indigenous Fiction
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A rare bond becomes a threat when a young girl and her dragon are forced into a system built to erase everything they are. In To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Anequs must survive a colonial dragon school that treats her knowledge, culture, and future as problems to be corrected. This fantasy blends coming-of-age tension, dragon lore, and resistance into a story that feels both intimate and defiant.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE ASTOUNDING, NEBULA, AND LODESTAR AWARDS • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AND BRITISH FANTASY NEWCOMER AWARDS • “My favorite book of the year . . . a coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“I tore through it, caught up in an enthusiasm for dragons that I hadn’t experienced since I was a teenager obsessed with Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea and Anne McCaffrey’s Pern.”—NPR
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, PopSugar, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, She Reads, Autostraddle
The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit—a person in a unique relationship with a dragon.
Unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have different opinions. They have a very specific idea of how a dragon should be raised, and who should be doing the raising—and Anequs does not meet any of their requirements. Only with great reluctance do they allow Anequs to enroll in a proper Anglish dragon school on the mainland. If she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.
For a girl with no formal schooling, a non-Anglish upbringing, and a very different understanding of the history of her land, challenges abound—both socially and academically. But Anequs is smart, determined, and resolved to learn what she needs to help her dragon, even if it means teaching herself. The one thing she refuses to do, however, is become the meek Anglish miss that everyone expects.
Anequs and her dragon may be coming of age, but they’re also coming to power, and that brings an important realization: the world needs changing—and they might just be the ones to do it.
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When a young mother disappears and her husband swears he knows nothing, Detective D. D. Warren digs into the picture-perfect illusion they built.
The Neighbor
Thriller
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When a young mother disappears and her husband swears he knows nothing, Detective D. D. Warren digs into the picture-perfect illusion they built. The Neighbor, book three in Lisa Gardner’s bestselling series, delivers explosive secrets, a ticking clock, and 4.4 stars on Amazon. If you love twisty thrillers with razor-sharp detectives, this one will keep you guessing.
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A young mother vanishes from her South Boston home. The front door was unlocked. Her daughter is still inside. Her husband says he has no idea what happened.
Detective D. D. Warren has heard that before.
To the outside world, the Jones family seems picture-perfect. But when D.D. steps into their home, her instincts scream that something is wrong. Jason Jones is too calm, too clean, too quick to retreat. And he is hiding something.
With a child’s life in the balance and a missing woman the entire city is hunting, D.D. has to navigate a media circus, a husband with secrets, and a timeline that keeps getting shorter.
The perfect family may be a façade. And behind closed doors, the truth might be deadly.
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From acclaimed horror writer Thomas Ligotti comes a terrifying work of nonfiction.
The Conspiracy against the Human Race
Horror · Gothic Romance
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From acclaimed horror writer Thomas Ligotti comes a terrifying work of nonfiction. The Conspiracy against the Human Race blends philosophy, neuroscience, and literary critique into a chilling case for pessimism. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and a cult following, this book confronts the darkest question of all: what if the real horror is life itself?
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What if the true horror of existence isn’t the monsters we imagine but the act of being alive?
In his first nonfiction work, acclaimed horror author Thomas Ligotti pulls back the veil not on fantasy, but on reality itself. Combining philosophical pessimism, literary analysis, and neuroscience, Ligotti constructs a chilling argument: human consciousness is a cosmic mistake, and our desperate belief in meaning is a comforting illusion.
This is not horror for entertainment. It is horror as revelation.
Ligotti invites readers into a mirror-dark world where suffering is universal, free will is a myth, and optimism is just another delusion. Bleak, brilliant, and strangely freeing, this book doesn’t ask if you’re ready to face the truth.
It quietly suggests you never were.
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A gifted healer is forced into the service of a powerful dragon prince in this fantasy romance packed with rebellion, forbidden desire, and shifting alliances.
Chosen
Romantasy · Fantasy
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A gifted healer is forced into the service of a powerful dragon prince in this fantasy romance packed with rebellion, forbidden desire, and shifting alliances. Chosen is the first book in the Curse of the Draekon series and has 4.4 stars on Amazon. Fans of ACOTAR and The Hunger Games will love its blend of danger, longing, and world-shaking stakes.
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Lissa Allaway is the best healer in her region, but that doesn’t save her from being drafted into service for the Draekon, dragon shifters who conquered the human continent long ago.
Forced to leave her home behind, Lissa enters a glittering but dangerous city where humans serve and Draekon rule. Rumors of rebellion simmer in the shadows. Draekon numbers are thinning, their power slipping. Some believe now is the time to rise.
Lissa always believed the Draekon were monsters. Then she meets the prince.
Fearsome and magnetic, he challenges everything she thought she knew. Torn between duty and desire, loyalty and liberty, Lissa must choose where her heart and future lie.
Romance or rebellion. Trust or treason. Either path could burn her whole world down.
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They were rivals, then lovers, then nothing at all.
For the Record
Romance · RomCom
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They were rivals, then lovers, then nothing at all. Now pop star Mackenzie and punk rocker Sam must reunite for a comeback album neither can afford to tank. For the Record is a sharp, heart-tugging romcom from New York Times bestseller Emma Lord. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this one brings second chances, secret identities, and serious musical chemistry.
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Mackenzie Waters was pop royalty. Sam Blaze was punk rebellion. Their bands were enemies, their chemistry undeniable, and their secret romance destined to implode.
Then everything did.
Now, two years later, Mackenzie is singing under a pseudonym after vocal surgery. Sam is raising a child he didn’t know existed. Their careers are on ice, their hearts still bruised, and the only thing that might save either of them is the one thing they swore never to do: work together.
A joint comeback album throws them back into the spotlight, but with every note and near miss, old sparks reignite. Secrets resurface. And the feud that once defined them starts to look a lot like fate.
They burned each other down. Now they have one chance to build something new.
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In Rabbits—a 4.4-star mind-bender from Terry Miles—the world is the board, reality is the prize, and the game might just be killing its players.
Rabbits
Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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In Rabbits—a 4.4-star mind-bender from Terry Miles—the world is the board, reality is the prize, and the game might just be killing its players. A cult hit praised by The Wall Street Journal, this alt-reality thriller blends Black Mirror paranoia with podcast-style mystery. Once the eleventh round begins, there’s no turning back.
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It starts with a number. 4:44 p.m. 44 unread emails. 44,444 on your odometer. Coincidence—or the edge of something deeper?
Rabbits is a secretive, reality-bending game that’s played across decades, hidden in plain sight. Most people don’t know it exists. Some believe it controls everything. And when players lose, they die.
K has spent years trying to find a way in. Then a rumored past winner appears with a warning: something is wrong, and if K doesn’t fix it before the eleventh round begins, reality itself could collapse.
Now Scarpio is missing. And Rabbits has begun again.
Tense, trippy, and impossible to put down, Rabbits is a high-stakes techno-thriller for fans of Black Mirror, House of Leaves, and conspiracy theories that feel just a little too real.
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