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Readers who enjoy women’s history, buried family stories, and past-and-present mysteries should find plenty to like here.
The Secret Letter
Literary Fiction
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Called “Incredible… I was enraptured through every single part of it…” by a five-star NetGalley reviewer, this dual-timeline historical novel follows Suffragette Esther in 1910 London and schoolteacher Lizzie in 2019 Kent, where a threatened school leads her to uncover Esther’s secret. Readers who enjoy women’s history, buried family stories, and past-and-present mysteries should find plenty to like here.
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‘Incredible… I was enraptured through every single part of it… Made me feel quite emotional… Fabulous read.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars
London, 1910. Twenty-one-year-old Esther Watkins would do anything for the Suffragette cause. Imprisoned, force-fed and beaten, she is determined to fight for what she believes is right – no matter what it costs her. With new love Joseph by her side, will she get the better future she dreams of?
Kent, 2019. With her marriage in tatters, school teacher Lizzie Armstrong moves to sleepy Elm Heath for a fresh start, and her pupils and the community soon steal her heart. So when the school is threatened with closure Lizzie knows she has to fight, and she looks to the school’s founder for inspiration.
What makes Esther, born and bred in London, a proud Suffragette, suddenly leave the city and escape to Elm Heath? And when Lizzie uncovers Esther’s heartbreaking secret, could it give her the strength she needs to save not just the school, but her new beginning too?
A heart-wrenching and uplifting novel for fans of Emily Gunnis, Kathleen McGurl and Kathryn Hughes.
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A good pick for fans of space battles, bounty hunts, gritty crews, and fast-paced military science fiction.
Space Hunter War
Sci-Fi
Our take
This six-book military sci-fi box set follows former Combat Search and Rescue soldier Jack Bennet as he restores a junkyard starship, hires a notorious drunk as pilot, and takes a bounty on one of the Pirate Worlds’ most ruthless killers. A good pick for fans of space battles, bounty hunts, gritty crews, and fast-paced military science fiction.
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Get the Space Hunter War Complete Series Box Set, featuring all six books in the series. 2000+ pages of explosive military sci fi action from a pair of bestsellers.
Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do?
Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contract that comes up: collect a bounty on one of the most ruthless killers in the Pirate Worlds, a place crawling with thieves, cutthroats and con artists whose primary language is violence. Jack must abandon his nice guy persona, or exploit it, if he is to survive.
What could possibly go wrong?
Experience this special edition omnibus of an explosive Military Sci-Fi Series from bestseller Rick Partlow, author of Drop Trooper, and debut author Pacey Holden.
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A warm fit for readers who enjoy chosen family, queer friendship, aging, sharp humor, and second chances.
That’s What Friends Are For
LGBTQIA+
Our take
A USA Today bestseller called “By turns hilarious, tender, and devastating” by Jodi Picoult, this Golden Girls-inspired novel follows Teddy and his Palm Springs housemates until his estranged sister and her teenage granddaughter arrive, bringing family tension and long-held secrets, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. A warm fit for readers who enjoy chosen family, queer friendship, aging, sharp humor, and second chances.
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
USA TODAY bestseller • Today Show Best Feel Good Read • Bookbub Best New Fiction • A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Zibby Media • US Weekly Best Romance • Featured on People.com, Newsweek.com and CBS-NY/Club Calvi Book Club
"By turns hilarious, tender, and devastating, Rouse’s novel explores what it means to be the sandwich generation of gays today — caught between those who paved the way for equality, those who are too young to credit them, and a world that seems increasingly hostile." —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author
In this poignant and hilarious story inspired by TV’s beloved The Golden Girls, bestselling author Wade Rouse celebrates love, aging, finding your people, and the art of impeccably timed one-liners.
Theodore Copeland has created a fabulous life in the desert oasis of Palm Springs, where he shares a fabulous pink mid-century home with three fabulous friends: Barry, a former actor still clinging to his youth, his hair, and the memory of the dream role that killed his career; Ron, an uprooted Christian from the Midwest with a big heart but no one to give it to; Sid, who, after coming out late in life, has never found love. Teddy is the caustic, unspoken leader of “The Golden Gays”—the foursome’s monthly drag tribute to The Golden Girls. Despite their foibles and bickering, they have turned their golden years into a golden era.
But the harmony of their desert enclave becomes a carousel of emotional baggage when Teddy’s estranged sister, Trudy, shows up on their doorstep, her dramatic teenage granddaughter in tow. While Teddy tries to keep Trudy at arm’s length, she manages to wheedle her way into the lives of the Golden Gays, until the real reason for her visit is revealed and the secrets they’ve all been keeping from each other unravel faster than a hastily stitched hemline.
A novel that gives thanks to “old” friends, That's What Friends Are For proves that while family may be the tie that binds, it’s the chosen family that truly keeps us together.
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Best for readers who like detailed military history, command strategy, and World War II naval history.
The Admirals
Biographies & Memoirs
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The Admirals tells the story of William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey, the four five-star admirals who led the U.S. Navy to victory in World War II. Drawing on journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, it examines their rivalries, leadership, and impact on naval warfare. Best for readers who like detailed military history, command strategy, and World War II naval history.
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Discover how history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.
Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet.
In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men—who were both friends and rivals—worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II.
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Best for readers who like hard science fiction, vintage computers, scientific mysteries, and high-stakes technology.
Retro Fold
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Time Travel
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Fourteen-year-old prodigy Ethan Cole buys an old Apple II and discovers the vanished research of a Cold War physicist whose unsanctioned project could reshape modern physics. With decades of technological progress now making the work possible, Ethan must decide whether to finish what the missing scientist started. Best for readers who like hard science fiction, vintage computers, scientific mysteries, and high-stakes technology.
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At the end of the Cold War, a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was pursuing an unsanctioned project that could reshape modern physics. Then he vanished — his lab seized, his research classified, his name erased from the record.
Thirty-five years later, Ethan Cole — fourteen years old, a prodigy, more capable than engineers twice his age — purchases the physicist's old Apple II at an estate sale. Inside, he finds hand-built hardware, encrypted disks, and notebooks full of equations thought to have disappeared with the physicist. The work was revolutionary and ahead of its time. Decades ahead.
Fully realizing the physicist's vision wasn't possible with 1980s technology. But three decades of advancement have closed the gap — and Ethan has the skills to finish what was started. The question is whether he should. The last person who tried never came home.
Sometimes going back is the only way forward.
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Best for readers who like Western historical romance with marriage of convenience, found family, slow burn, grief healing, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
A Montana Marriage of Necessity
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance
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A Montana Marriage of Necessity follows Adelaide Whitford, a high-society woman fleeing her dangerous fiancé, as she becomes a mail-order bride in Montana Territory and enters a practical marriage with Rhett Callahan, a lumberjack raising two grieving children. Best for readers who like Western historical romance with marriage of convenience, found family, slow burn, grief healing, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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"Why do you push me away every time I get close?"
"Because the closer you get, the more I realize I’d burn this whole mountain down just to keep you in it."
Adelaide Whitford is a woman of high society fleeing a nightmare. After her obsessive, dangerous fiancé threatens her safety, she escapes St. Louis to become a mail-order bride in the rugged Montana Territory. She seeks anonymity and freedom, yet when she steps into her new home, she is met with the chaos of two grieving children and a lumberjack who is far too handsome for a man as cold as he is.
Rhett Callahan doesn’t believe in love, only responsibility. After his brother’s death, he’s left with two grieving children and a life built on sacrifice. A practical marriage seems like the only answer. But as Adelaide begins to heal his family, he faces a terrifying question: is he brave enough to risk his heart on a woman who might be snatched away?
A Montana Marriage of Necessity is a stand-alone Western Historical Romance book with no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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Best for readers who like dark MM mafia romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, possessive antiheroes, secrets, and cliffhanger endings.
Kneel for the Bratva
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance
Our take
Kneel for the Bratva follows a former cop forced under the control of Alexei Volkov, the Bratva heir he once arrested, after his brother’s blood debt puts him back in Alexei’s reach, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 30 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dark MM mafia romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, possessive antiheroes, secrets, and cliffhanger endings.
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He put me behind bars. Now I'm on my knees before him.
Five years ago, I arrested Alexei Volkov — heir to the most ruthless crime family on the Eastern Seaboard. It was supposed to be the bust of my career.
It was the biggest mistake of my life.
Now my brother owes the Bratva a blood debt he can't pay. And the man I put in a cage? He's the one holding my leash.
Alexei doesn't just want my obedience. He wants me to break. He wants me to beg. He wants me to forget I ever wore a badge.
The worst part? Every time those cold gray eyes pin me in place, I forget too.
But there are secrets buried between us — secrets that could destroy his empire or set us both free. And in this world, love isn't just forbidden.
It's a death sentence.
KNEEL FOR THE BRATVA is a dark MM enemies-to-lovers mafia romance featuring a morally gray antihero, forced proximity, a possessive alpha, explicit content, and a cliffhanger ending. Book 1 of the Volkov Bratva series. Reader discretion advised.
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Good for readers who like classic British detection, historical crime, forensic detail, and detective duos.
THE COMPLETE DETECTIVE HENRY JOHNSTONE HISTORICAL MYSTERIES
Mystery · Historical Mystery
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Called “Excellent . . . Fans of golden age mysteries will be delighted” by Publishers Weekly, THE COMPLETE DETECTIVE HENRY JOHNSTONE HISTORICAL MYSTERIES collects ten interwar British mysteries following forensic Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone and people-smart Sergeant Mickey Hitchens through murders, class tension, and secrets between the wars. Good for readers who like classic British detection, historical crime, forensic detail, and detective duos.
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‘Excellent . . . Fans of golden age mysteries will be delighted’ Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Ten historical mysteries. Over 2000 pages. Two chalk-and-cheese detectives. Many hours of high-quality mystery reading.
Lincolnshire, England, 1928. Builders lift the flagstones in a narrow yard and uncover three bodies in shallow graves. A woman, a young man and a seven-year-old girl.
The local police are out of their depth. Scotland Yard sends Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone and Sergeant Mickey Hitchens north with the famous murder bag.
Henry came back from the trenches changed. Precise, contained, hard to read. He works a crime scene like a scientist: fingerprints, photographs, bloodstains, fibres, every detail copied into the black-bound murder book he keeps in his own hand.
Mickey is his opposite: a proper East End copper. Henry reads evidence. Mickey reads people. Between them, very little stays buried.
But the bodies in the yard are only the beginning.
Across ten atmospheric cases, the investigations move from hard-up terraced streets and Lincolnshire market towns to south-coast sands, smoke-blackened factory districts, country houses and the glittering world of the bright young things.
This is England between the wars: uneasy, divided, still haunted by the trenches, where the old order and the fast new set both have secrets worth killing for.
Classic British detection in the Golden Age tradition. Perfect for readers of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham, and for fans of Charles Todd, Jacqueline Winspear and Frances Brody.
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication.
The First Week
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past.
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past.
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Good for readers who like clean romance with cowboys, cops, bodyguards, faith elements, protective heroes, and suspense.
Small-Town Secrets
Mystery
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Small-Town Secrets collects ten romantic suspense stories where couples in small towns and ranch communities face danger, solve mysteries, uncover deadly secrets, and find love. Good for readers who like clean romance with cowboys, cops, bodyguards, faith elements, protective heroes, and suspense.
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Ten riveting, unputdownable small-town romances filled with love, faith, and danger to warm your heart and set it racing!
Sparks and bullets fly as couples join forces to survive, solve mysteries, and find love in small towns and ranch communities where emotions run deep, people care about each other, and the secrets can be deadly!
- Book 1: Scent of Danger To find her missing sister, a small-town cop risks her life by posing as her twin. Under escalating attacks, she accepts protection from a private investigator--but he has his own secret mission.
- Book 2: No Fake Dating for a Cowboy A woman in jeopardy, a cowboy turned small-town cop grieving his fiancée, and a relationship too real to be fake…
- Book 3: No Mistaken Identity for a Cowboy A quirky woman with secrets, a military hero helping her search for her birth parents, and a case of mistaken identity…
- Book 4: No Second Chance for a Cowboy A woman with amnesia and a once grumpy cowboy she doesn’t remember breaking up with. When he becomes her self-appointed bodyguard, can they have a second chance at love?
- Book 5: Color of Danger When a small-town business owner becomes the target of a killer, she encounters an unusual ally who has his own secret agenda. Will they find love amid danger?
- Book 6: Touch of Danger A cop, the beautiful woman he believes caused his brother's death, and secrets someone will kill to keep hidden...
- Book 7: Taste of Danger A small-town librarian has three days to find a hidden Russian treasure -- or she and her father will die. Will she and the private investigator she turns to for help escape danger and find treasures of faith, love, and hope?
- Book 8: Seaside Cowboy’s Second Chance A woman with broken dreams and promises. A cowboy with a broken--by her--heart. A stray dog with a possibly broken paw. And everyone with a dangerous secret. Even the dog.
- Book 9: Show Me my Brother’s Best Friend A woman in jeopardy and her brother's best friend she'd once crushed on meet again before Christmas… When the past comes knocking on her door, will she choose love or closure?
- Book 10: Seaside Cowboy’s Christmas Wish A nurse, a cowboy, and a secret that could get them both killed by Christmas!
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Good for readers who enjoy urban fantasy rooted in music, fae lore, Appalachian atmosphere, and buried community secrets.
Chapel of Ease
LGBTQIA+ · Fantasy
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Seanan McGuire calls Chapel of Ease “Beautifully written, surprisingly moving, and unexpected in the best of ways.” The novel follows New York actor Matt Johansson from an off-Broadway musical to rural Tennessee after the mysterious death of its Tufa composer. Good for readers who enjoy urban fantasy rooted in music, fae lore, Appalachian atmosphere, and buried community secrets.
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The latest installment in Alex Bledsoe's critically-acclaimed Tufa series about musically-talented fae in rural Tennessee, a series Kirkus Reviews calls "powerful, character-driven drama...a sheer delight." (starred review)
"Beautifully written, surprisingly moving, and unexpected in the best of ways." —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author
When Matt Johansson, a young New York actor, auditions for "Chapel of Ease," an off-Broadway musical, he is instantly charmed by Ray Parrish, the show's writer and composer. They soon become friends; Matt learns that Ray's people call themselves the Tufa and that the musical is based on the history of his isolated home town. But there is one question in the show's script that Ray refuses to answer: what is buried in the ruins of the chapel of ease?
As opening night approaches, strange things begin to happen. A dreadlocked girl follows Ray and spies on him. At the press preview, a strange Tufa woman warns him to stop the show. Then, as the rave reviews arrive, Ray dies in his sleep.
Matt and the cast are distraught, but there's no question of shutting down: the run quickly sells out. They postpone opening night for a week and Matt volunteers to take Ray's ashes back to Needsville. He also hopes, while he's there, to find out more of the real story behind the play and discover the secret that Ray took to his grave.
Matt's journey into the haunting Appalachian mountains of Cloud County sets him on a dangerous path, where some secrets deserve to stay buried.
Enter the captivating world of the fae in Alex Bledsoe's Tufa novels
The Hum and the Shiver
Wisp of a Thing
Long Black Curl
Chapel of Ease
Gather Her Round
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Good for readers looking for contemporary family drama with coastal atmosphere, layered secrets, and summer-read appeal.
Vacationland
Literary Fiction
Our take
Amanda Eyre Ward calls Vacationland “As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque.” The novel follows Louisa and Kristie through a Maine summer shaped by family secrets, marriage, motherhood, privilege, old betrayals, and questions of what they owe others. Good for readers looking for contemporary family drama with coastal atmosphere, layered secrets, and summer-read appeal.
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A Sarah Selects Book Club Pick!
“As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque.” —Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author
A shimmering summer read set in Maine about family secrets, marriage, motherhood, and privilege, from the bestselling author of Two Truths and a Lie and The Islanders.
Louisa has come to her parents’ house in Maine this summer with her three kids, a barely written book that has a looming deadline, and a trunkful of resentment. Louisa is hoping the crisp breeze will blow away her irritation for her life choices and replace it with enthusiasm for both her family and her writing.
But all isn’t well in Maine. Louisa’s father, a retired judge and pillar of the community, is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Louisa’s mother is alternately pretending everything is fine and not pretending at all. And one of Louisa’s children happens upon a very confusing and heartfelt letter referring to something Louisa doesn’t think her father could possibly have done.
Louisa’s not the only one searching for something in Maine this summer. Kristie took the Greyhound bus from Pennsylvania with the $761 left in her bank account and a whole lot of emotional baggage. She has a past she’s trying to outrun, a secret she’s trying to unpack, and a new boyfriend who’s so impossibly kind she can’t figure out what she did to deserve him.
As June turns to July turns to August, secrets will be unearthed, betrayals will come to light, and both Louisa and Kristie will ask themselves what they are owed and what they owe others. Both a delicious summer read and a compelling portrayal of family, responsibility, ambition, and loss, Vacationland is Meg Mitchell Moore at her best.
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